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
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
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 |
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
