Sony raising PS Plus pricing by 33% 


<span style="color:#323232;">Tier                          Original Pricing.       New Pricing
</span><span style="color:#323232;">PS Plus Essential	£49.99 / $59.99	£59.99 / $79.99
</span><span style="color:#323232;">PS Plus Extra	        £83.99 / $99.99	£99.99 / $134.99
</span><span style="color:#323232;">PS Plus Premium	£99.99 / $119.99	£119.99 / $159.99
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33+% is quite a hike, considering that Sony doesn’t offer PS+ Day 1 Launches, unlike Xbox. I hope they start offering their games day one, else people will start to unsubscribe.

It’s a bummer, since I like PS+ Extra a lot (don’t get PS+ Premium, it’s not worth it)

Also very scummy of them to hide their pricing update behind the Sept PS+ monthly games blogpost

Anticorp,

Are they still going to auto renew this shit even though they massively increased the price? That should be illegal. I would have never seen the increase until after it was billed if not for this post.

Do you guys remember when prices used to go up like 3-5%? I guess corporations started taking notes from the fricken DMV.

gk99,

Considering their subscription competitor costs $204 a year while they were at $120/yr, I think it’s pretty clear why they boosted the upper tiers so much. Even with this price increase, it’s still $44 cheaper than Ultimate and imo a better overall value in terms of game quality.

What’s really trash is that they’re increasing the price of the base PS+ membership, and by so much. It now costs $150 a year to play just Madden, CoD, or EA Soccer, on top of a minimum $400 console purchase. That’s absurd. I would say this is a W for Xbox, but they already tried to increase the price of Gold and they’ll definitely try again now that they know there’s no escaping it.

…Other than buying a PC.

szczuroarturo,

Oh yeach paying for playing online games is such a bulshit. I never really complained about it online beacuse i was buying ps plus on ps3 when it only gave you games ( beacuse i do buy it only for games and i would never pay it to play online games) so it never really affected me but this is such a bs. Im suprised there wasnt a bigger outcry against it.

Anticorp,

The base tier is entirely bullshit. You shouldn’t need to pay them money to access the internet that you already pay another company for. The base tier shouldn’t exist.

Skiptrace,

Gold is going away and getting a value increase. It’s becoming “Gamepass Core” it retains Online function, and gets 25 Gamepass Games.

Microsoft only increased the price by like, 2 dollars. Not this nonsense.

XTornado,

I mean… Usually in this cases once they charge you you can still ask for a refund as long as it hasn’t passed a lot of days but yeah I agree is shit.

BigVault,
BigVault avatar

I used to own both a Series X, PS5 and have my gaming PC (all in the same room - desktop currently has an i5 13500, RTX 3090 24GB, 4TB of NVME storage & 128GB ram)

Got myself a 5m hdmi lead capable of driving my 4k/120 TV and just ended up using my pc for everything now.

I just switch sources between my monitor and tv when I want to game on the couch. Any mouse/keyboard input needed, I do it on the Unified remote app on my phone and fire up Steam big picture on the tv.

Sold the PS5 and XBOX and ditched two more subscriptions hitting me every month.

No regrets so far.

SuiXi3D,
SuiXi3D avatar

I bought a steam link forever ago and ran an Ethernet cable from my router to it. Works like a charm.

freamon,

The columns were out of alignment for me, so I thought I’d display it as a table:

Tier Original Pricing New Pricing
PS Plus Essential £49.99 / $59.99 £59.99 / $79.99
PS Plus Extra £83.99 / $99.99 £99.99 / $134.99
PS Plus Premium £99.99 / $119.99 £119.99 / $159.99
sub_,

oh wait, I didn’t realize that the table markdown works here.

Thanks for displaying it as a table!

fades,

And thus I canceled my premium plan. I barely play online as it is, if I want I’ll just go to steam.

Absolute bullshit of a price gouge

MeatsOfRage,

There was a promo where all PlayStation Now subscription gets converted 1:1 with PS Plus Premium before Plus launched. Found some cheap Now gift cards online and stocked up until 2029. Suddenly that’s feeling like a much better deal.

xerazal,

Whelp, I was keeping the sub purely because the games they give you monthly and so my ex could still play online, but nvm. Gonna cancel because it’s not worth the cost. The games they give out monthly are usually mid and the online services haven’t improved since the PS3 days when it was free.

Still don’t have a PS5, and definitely not getting one now. Fuck off, Sony.

Star_FOX_dew_HOUND, (edited )

Yup just cancelled my subscription, once i followed the link to confirm from Playstation not heresy. And yeah what a way to announce it, douches.

I’m a long time Playstation fan, had every system.

sigh

nicktron,
nicktron avatar

Thanks for the info. Canceled today.

Computerchairgeneral,

Well, that's another reason to consider completely switching over to gaming on PC. The free games are nice, but the quality always varies month to month and I really have to wonder if it's worth it to stay subscribed.

dawnerd,
@dawnerd@lemm.ee avatar

They’re not free.

mara,
@mara@pawb.social avatar

Yeah, i’m gonna axe my PS Plus account. It ain’t worth it. PS5 has no games.

HawlSera,

looks up from her PC Gaming Rig You guys are paying for online plah?

Sparkko,
Sparkko avatar

The higher upfront hardware costs of a decent PC become more worth it every day. Screw Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

NightOwl,

And it’s capable of productivity with free tools like blender, visual studio code, and da vinci resolve. So that extra hardware can be used beyond just gaming.

bitwolf,

And you can play all of your historical games, and emulate every console since the dawn of time.

SirSauceLordtheThird,

I view my pc as a hobbyist’s tool, instead of solely a gaming device. It has helped me learn many things outside of gaming, all the information it can get me and all the things i can do on it are frankly overwhelming.
Totally worth what I paid for this pc, 100%.

NightOwl,

Yeah, looking for non video game related reasons to make use of the hardware makes me appreciate the flexibility that more open hardware allows.

jcarax,

And let’s not forget porn.

Zevlen,

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    Exec,
    @Exec@pawb.social avatar

    kek

    bur

    Jaxseven,
    @Jaxseven@beehaw.org avatar

    Let’s not forget to mention the Steam Deck’s low price for pretty great PC gaming. Even more so for the refurbished entry models which are nearly the same price as the last GPU I recommended to someone (secondhand 6700 XT). I’ve been surprised how good of an experience I’ve had with Baldur’s Gate 3 on the Deck.

    doctortofu,
    @doctortofu@reddthat.com avatar

    This price hike is absurd - fortunately the only game I play online (Warframe) is implementing cross-save soon, so I’ll be able to move away from Playstation and stop renewing Plus - 80 dollars for online pay and cloud saves is robbery, how greedy can you get?!

    Cethin,

    Wait, console players still have to pay to play online? Wtf? How have people kept purchasing these things?

    HawlSera,

    A lot of people fear that you have to be a tech geek with deep pockets to play anything other than minesweeper.

    Not true but this fear sells Xboxes

    kboy101222,

    I don’t think you have to pay for plus for warframe. I used to play in PlayStation and I haven’t had plus since I got 3 free months with my PlayStation

    doctortofu,
    @doctortofu@reddthat.com avatar

    Even better - I can just let it lapse then and still play using my preferred controller - thanks for letting me know!

    Cethin,

    PSA: You can use literally any controller you want on PC.

    kboy101222,

    As the other guy said - any controller works on PC (I’d recommend wired though cause the vast majority of Bluetooth drivers suck on PC)

    Send_me_nude_girls,

    Nintendo will be next to raise prices for their peer 2 peer. Lol

    storksforlegs,
    @storksforlegs@beehaw.org avatar

    By comparison Nintendo charges 24.99 a year (In Canada) Its a much simpler service but you also get access to some of their old catalogue online.

    Or even cheaper just use Steam.

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