PS Plus Essential, Extra, Premium Price Increases Announced by Sony
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As much as $40 more
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

  • donuts@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    Save your money, buy a Steam Deck or a desktop PC, play games online with the internet service that you already pay a shit ton of money for, and don’t look back. It’s really stupid that we allowed game consoles to charge us to play online.

    • arefx@lemmy.ml
      0·
      1 year ago

      Steam deck is a great way to get into PC gaming if you don’t have a lot of money or a PC. It can run a lot of games. Enough that you won’t get bored any time soon.

      • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
        2·
        1 year ago

        I would say a pc would be cheaper if ur on a budget as u can easily get a bunch of used hardware and rig it together till you can afford something better for an upgrade

        • bitwolf@lemmy.one
          2·
          1 year ago

          Agreed. I built up a nice console PC using a used HP Pavilion Gaming PC.

          Threw in a 50$ 32gb ram kit and a 60$ 2tb SSD.

          Total cost <450$ and it’s a bit faster than a Steam Deck.

          I wouldn’t call this beginner friendly compared to a deck, but the potential cost savings are real.

  • Sparkko@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

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

    • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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@lemmy.one
        1·
        1 year ago

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

      • SirSauceLordtheThird@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        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%.