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Sony raising PS Plus pricing by 33% (www.pushsquare.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I remember buying a PS3 because playing online was free (Xbox you had to pay).

I absolutely cannot imagine anyone buying a PS5 for $740 (in my Country), then paying $70-90 per game and THEN paying a monthly subscription to be able to play multiplayer...

What the actual hell.... at this point the argument that a console is cheaper than a gaming PC is utterly wrong.

It's baffling and quite sad that a lot of people are paying this much...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months 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%.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's a good thing we all got 33% pay raises... Right?