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submitted 1 year ago by sub_@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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

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[-] YourFavouriteNPC@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, another very "for the players"-move indeed

[-] BigVault@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] fades@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] busydoinnothin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I've been paying for premium for the last year (monthly, not so bright here) and I haven't used any of the offerings of streaming or demos. I'm def lowering my sub to extra (I def play from the catalog) but wondering if I should just pay for the year subscription now or wait for any discounts that may happen.

I think I read we have til Sept 6 to pay for current prices, so I figured I'd just get the year today. Any thoughts?

[-] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I buy the subscriptions for ps+ and nso during black friday. There is usually a sale going on then. Wish i could have stacked up some more.

[-] doctortofu@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but recently PS+ subscriptions only get a around 20% discount on Black Friday, and Sony is hiking the price up by now than 30, so it's more than likely that the discounted price is still going to be higher than the full price now...

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Damn, I expect not getting too ripped out in México...

[-] chepox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Question: If I were to buy a PS Plus Essential subscription code for 12 months, how would I be changing that to premium? Would I be charged after putting my code in? Do I now have two different dates on when Premium ends and when essential ends?

[-] Maestro@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

If you upgrade from essential to premium then you only pay the price difference for the time left on your essential. So only one end date.

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It's a move to test water then, since most people that are long term subscriber usually stack up during sales. I think they are testing how well it might work with their new offers and banking on people forgot to stop renew.

It really sucks cause essential pretty much no longer justified for their pricing at this point. Guess I have to try setup some sort of back up routine for my old save files on the PS cloud before I cancel my subscription.

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