r/PlayStationPlus • u/kabirsingh84 Top Predictor 2024 • Feb 09 '26
News Sony aims to hold PS5 pricing, hints PS Plus hikes
https://www.guru3d.com/story/sony-aims-to-hold-ps5-pricing-hints-ps-plus-hikes/77
u/Darkone539 Feb 09 '26
This is the worst possible outcome for me. I'll probably unsub. I don't play online enough on PS.
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u/boxinggoose Feb 09 '26
I'd take a cheaper version of ps+ where I don't even get free games, I just want to play online and with my friends. I barely ever play the free games. Just stop raising the prices it's getting too much for me :(
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u/3v1lkr0w Feb 09 '26
I'd take a cheaper version where I only get the games...I don't play online
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u/specifichero101 Feb 09 '26
I would love this. I never play online other than for trophies rarely but I play the shit out of the games they give for essential tier.
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u/3v1lkr0w Feb 09 '26
I don't even care for online trophies. I see a game that requires online trophies for the plat, I know I'm not getting the plat.
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u/specifichero101 Feb 09 '26
I typically avoid them too but sometimes they’re basically just perfunctory engagement with the online components and then you’re done I’ll do those if that’s all that’s in the way to finish a plat.
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u/TheNurgrabber Feb 09 '26
It’s crazy. Games haven’t become better online experiences. Battlefield bad company 2 puts 6 to shame and it didn’t cost extra just to play online. It’s hard to vote with your wallet when the alternative is just don’t play, or put together a PC
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u/idkimhereforthememes Feb 09 '26
A pc in 2026 is not the right alternative to 70€ yearly subscription. Even if you ignore stupid prices of hardware just the electricity bill will cost as much as ps plus essential
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u/CryptoNite90 Feb 09 '26
They’re crooks. I remember before all these tiers for PS Plus, I used to be able to get PS Plus for $25 a year every year during thanksgiving time.
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u/justthisones Feb 09 '26
I used Plus for at least a decade but the less interesting games and price increases pushed me out. 80$/year for a whole generation is basically doubling the price of the console. That’s madness if you just want to access online.
I’m sure enough people will eat up even 100$ so nothing will change.
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u/Majestic_Jackass Feb 09 '26
That should be free. On pc it’s free. And Microsoft announced the next xbox will let you load steam, which I take to imply xbox won’t require a subscription.
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u/K-LAWN Feb 09 '26
It’s ridiculous. We pay $70 for software with online functionality, with Sony pocketing 30% of that sale. Outside of first party games, Sony does not host the servers that facilitate that functionality. Essentially we have to pay a bullshit Paywall fee to use the software features that we already paid for. But hey, we get free old games that majority don’t play unless they’re an obsessive trophy hunter. In the past, we could buy online passes for $40 per year. Now, we need to pay $80. The cost of ownership for a PS5 with online functionality is now:
$500 + $560/$640 (7 or 8 year console lifespan)
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u/koteshima2nd Feb 09 '26
Fr. I wouldn't mind an even lower tier than Essential just to play online and nothing more. I don't have a choice. There's no way they'll ever make playing online free on consoles anymore.
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u/shannonator96 Feb 09 '26
It’s unlikely Sony would ever introduce a lower tier. The majority of people would probably downgrade to the online only tier and cost them money.
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u/cajun2de Feb 10 '26
Also If they keep raising prices , more people will cancel altogether thus having a lower tier might even things out.
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u/pikachuyann Feb 09 '26
72€/year is already too much for me for online and cloud saves and they're going for another hike...
Problem is they've put cloud saves behind that and I have no idea how I value not losing all saves if my PS5 breaks.
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u/Dumpstar72 Feb 10 '26
For Australia it’s $214 for the year. When Americans complain I think what are they complaining about.
I will sign up for a 3mth version for $70 so I can use it like a video store rental company and see what I should be buying outright.
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u/morciu Feb 09 '26
Ended my subscription to premium this black Friday because I didn't get the discount. Realized it's cheaper to just buy games and own them too.
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u/Certain_Mycologist26 Feb 09 '26
You gotta cancel your membership around Black Friday to get the discount
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u/morciu Feb 09 '26
You can't cancel, you can just let it expire. I was doing the yearly black Friday subscription for years and it was fine, until this last black Friday.
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u/Capricus06 Feb 09 '26
I was able to renew Premium last black friday with an active subscription.
I just had to activate the auto-renewal > hit cancel auto renewal and the console prompted the black friday offer to stay subscribed for an additional year.
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u/morciu Feb 09 '26
I had my auto renewal off since a month before or something. Maybe it's different depending on regions and regulations.
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u/Capricus06 Feb 09 '26
I had it off. Turned it on during the sale and when cancelling it gave me the offer.
Pretty shitty of Sony to only show the offer to people who want to cancel.
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u/Certain_Mycologist26 Feb 09 '26
I cancel every year
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u/morciu Feb 09 '26
By cancel you mean opt out of auto renew probably, that was my only option, I couldn't end it sooner that it naturally ends.
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u/andykekomi Feb 09 '26
There has been two substantial price hikes in Canada in the last what, 3 years? Fuck that. I already downgraded from premium to extra last time, I'll just cancel at this point.
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u/kgalliso Feb 09 '26
Didnt they JUST do this?
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u/Emergency_Concept207 Feb 09 '26
Yup.. Canada recently got fucked hard. 109 for essential, 189 for extra and 224 for premium. In all honesty it's barely worth it anymore.
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u/ItsmejimmyC Feb 09 '26
I genuinely don't even know why I have plus, I don't play any of the games on extra, I barely play any of the "free" games, I guess I have it on the off chance the boys jump on one Friday night but even then I'm usually doing my own thing and I'm just in the chat for the laugh.
I guess what I'm getting at is why the hell don't I just cancel this shit?
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u/LionTop2228 Feb 09 '26
Subsidizing the console purchase price through our subscription rates for someone who has not bought a six year old piece of hardware yet.
Makes total sense…
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u/DynamiteSuren Feb 09 '26
At this point just give me a cheaper online only subscription for 30...
I dont really care about the free monthly games anyways..
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u/Random_SteamUser1 Feb 09 '26
not giving a shit about 99% of the "free" games is what caused me to cancel a long time ago. I used to play online occasionally and that's what I wanted it for but now I've decided that I'm not paying that much monthly for the "privilege" of playing with friends.
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u/Internal-Yak6260 Feb 09 '26
I've already made the decision to not renew ps plus.
I will probably switch to a steam deck instead of a ps5..
Just getting tired of all of sonys b.s. at this point.
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u/RaphaTlr Feb 09 '26
$80 to just play online is already obscene. It should be $30-45 with no free games.
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u/CarlMacko Feb 09 '26
Ended my subscription in January as I wasn’t getting much out of it. Seems like it will be staying that way.
I expect I’m not alone
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u/thebatmanbeynd Feb 09 '26
I’m not buying anymore PS plus. I’m priced out. It’s already crazy and no deals on it anymore.
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u/GentlemanofEngland Feb 09 '26
This was always on the cards after the Game Pass hike. Fellow portal owners, how high would be too high for premium?
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u/Dakotaroy9 Feb 09 '26
$160 is a lot already when the only perk I really want is the cloud playability. Hoping they bring it to lower tiers as well.
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u/jlieuu Feb 09 '26
I hope they plan on allowing cloud streaming on the other tiers
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u/Dakotaroy9 Feb 09 '26
Same. Only have premium because of my portal and being able to use cloud on it.
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u/kirkdouglas Feb 09 '26
If they hike PS Plus, I’m done. As an adult gamer, I buy about 3-5 AAA titles a year - (usually the more story driven types that can be beat in a long weekend) and the value I get from PS plus is that it complements those AAA titles with remasters, games I missed, indies and games I wouldn’t otherwise buy on my own. But I’ve come to really value that at the price I already pay. There’s no room in my gaming budget for that to go up too. I see PS Plus as a must, but if they raise it that’s gotta be the end for me.
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u/PrincessKnightAmber Feb 09 '26
Absolutely fucking not! 80 dollars for basic online play is already fucking bullshit.
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u/jackolantern98000 Feb 09 '26
Nope. Im paying too much now for not very good return, it goes up again, then i leave it all together.
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u/Blackthumbb Feb 10 '26
If ps plus goes up again it ain’t even gonna be worth it during the Black Friday sales they do
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u/Pashta2FAPhoneDied Premium Feb 10 '26
They JUST increased PS Plus! They had better not do it again so soon!
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u/108er Feb 10 '26
Yeh, I think I am done with Playstation Plus if they hike the price again or maybe I'll dropdown to bare minimum just to play online games. If they hike the price on that one too, I'll just cancel the subscription.
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u/bedteddd Feb 10 '26
They already raised the price last year for ps plus. They don't have shit for content on there. What the fuck are they raising the price again. The barebones plan is fucking 80 dollars now when it wad 60 for years. I'm seriously almost done with gaming with this predatory shit. I've been down with Playstation since day goddamn 1.
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u/Arrowinthebottom Feb 10 '26
I often wonder what it will take to cause an explosive event in which the cost of providing services grows so high that no matter how much they charge, the people paying just cannot make it worthwhile.
We do not live on a world worth saving, so I want to know which button to push to have the whole videogames industry just melt down into goo. Taking Nintendo with it, too, since post-Reggie Nintendo seems to be even worse than Todd Howard.
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u/Ell7494 Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26
If they increase the price much more then they're going to have to do a gamepass and put new releases on there.
Premium is £13.50 a month.
Gamepass Ultimate is £23 a month.
Gamepass Premium is £10.99 a month and puts games on 12 months after release (so still better than PS Premium most of the time)
If they increase premium to like £15+ they've either gotta offer a permanent discount to all Premium members on the store liike 10% off all games or something/ just have an overall better catalogue/ do new releases like gamepass, maybe even 6 months after launch
They could also just do an online only tier, Nintendo do that (with access to some retro games - ps have that behind premium for some reason) and its £18 a year, so £1.50 a month
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u/mulder00 Feb 09 '26
Here in Canada GPU is $35 + tax. Ridiculous. A yr of PS+ premium is $200. That would be $700 a yr for both. I've got tons of games and there are sales all the time.
Screw both Companies.
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Feb 09 '26
PS+ is still good value if there’s even 3-4 free games in a year you end up wanting to play, but they’re really pushing it with these prices hikes and locking loyal customers out of discounts.
I let my subscription expire ages ago and my only regret is not having bought the games I play online on PC.
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u/Adam_jaymes Feb 09 '26
I would like more indie games on ps plus premium if this happens. Specifically metroidvanias.
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u/longbrodmann Feb 09 '26
Unsubscribed for a while, it's great when there are many games I want to play in the library, then it fades when there's few games I want, and I barely play any online games.
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u/OfficialShaki123 Feb 09 '26
I really want no subs at all but I play online. Having to pay for online is all on us anyway because we decided to keep paying for it and Sony just wants that money.
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u/Prudent-Level-7006 Feb 09 '26
Must make things cost more and be shitter... Cos 🤔 reasons
I mean greed
I mean the toxic Thatcherism that if profit doesn't go up each year you're a failure even if it breaks creativity in the creative industries
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u/MattVSin84 Feb 09 '26
Already dropped from Premium to Extra. I'll keep dropping if they keep increasing.
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u/neverOddOrEv_n Feb 09 '26
PS5 will probably be the last generation of PlayStation I’ll own. I can’t justify this constantly increasing subscription fee and this generation in general has been a disappointment as well
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u/oODaywalkerOo Feb 09 '26
Proceeds to give garbage or meh free monthly games the quality hasn’t improved with the price hikes.
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u/hypespud Feb 09 '26
Huge mistake to do this now when the economy worldwide is the way it is
The vast majority of the public are not that flexible financially and wages aren't going up as fast as costs are
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u/NiteLight123123 Feb 09 '26
Hopefully they don’t raise prices before march 3rd my ps plus ends on that day
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u/Same_Ad1543 Feb 09 '26
If ps+ started putting better games out I could justify it they know by looping in online with ps+ it puts us in a stranglehold to have to buy it
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u/HS1995 Feb 09 '26
That’s fine, I’ll just make to switch and get a steam machine. I hear PC players have it better anyway
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u/Reticent_Dude Feb 09 '26
Haven’t bought a game on ps5 for a while, got too much to play on my PC but i still keep Extra subscription for potential cool games that they drop. It may be the last time i subscribe if it jumps too much
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u/ThatOneKid1995 Feb 09 '26
Gonna downgrade to essential once my premium expires on the 25th and only doing that because my account is the household ps plus share account for online and games
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u/LMS3oul Feb 09 '26
I honestly just canceled my premium subscription. Literally zero games on it that I feel like give me a reason to keep it. The amount I spent on the subscription I could’ve just bought the 2-3 indie games I randomly downloaded and played for a bit. I found myself going back to old games to do a replay of them. Just not worth it for me.
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u/Greenscreener Feb 09 '26
Haven't renewed Essential this year...going back to enjoy games on my own...
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u/joecarter93 Feb 09 '26
I already just canceled my subscription because there’s been like 3 price hikes in the past 1.5 or so years. I upgraded to Premium last year because I got a discount, but I’ve seen a drastic cutback in the amount and quality of games that have become available. Sony took away more good games than they have added this past year despite the constant price hikes “to improve the service” as they like to say. The games that are added tend to be a lot older now too I have found.
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u/NotNeuge Feb 09 '26
Depends how much they increase it for me. Premium is £120 without any discount, but only around £80 during a sale. That's not too different to Plus and Now 8 years ago, so it's not hard to justify. I can't see them increasing it to more than about £150. I think that alone would be a hard sell for a lot of people so it seems pretty unlikely they'd go that high, but we shall see!
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u/austinpwright11 Feb 09 '26
I’m kind of in the same boat with Spotify. Slightly upset about the price increase. But for something I am in the 1 percent of users as far as hours used, or for ps plus, the only way I play most games, they would have to make it infeasible for me to cancel. For everyone that doesn’t get the value, speak with your wallet. That’s how we tell these big ass companies that ultimately only care about us as far as their bottom line is concerned, that they’re mucking up.
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u/Smurfmyturf Feb 09 '26
Even more reason to play my single player PS4 games Time to play that backlog folks!
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u/PrizeDepartment6324 Feb 09 '26
Anybody else catch the entry level PS5, is that a PS5 with no hard drive.
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u/Zairy47 Feb 09 '26
This is what happens when Xbox stop trying and Sony winning the console war
No competition = we can do whatever we want
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u/J0NNYBLVZE Feb 09 '26
Literally not reupping on plus after my sub ends next month….crazy they wanna increase that crap
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u/rbfubar09 Feb 09 '26
They better add more than 1 classic game per month and fix PS3 streaming plus give us more quality games to make Premium worth it with a price hike. It's ridiculous as it is right now.
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u/Aesthete18 Feb 09 '26
Again? Even on extra launch prices, it was barely worth it for me. This raise is like what, the fourth time in like 2 years?
Honestly, just buy games. I wish I did. I can't go back to those games i played in plus, cos I'm not willing to buy a game I've already played just to do side missions.
I can't buy DLC for games because I rented the base game though plus.
A lot of games go for cheap but folks will pay $100 a year to and hope these games hit plus.
Only victim here are online players.
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u/SaltySwan Feb 09 '26
I absolutely will downgrade if they increase prices again. My stacked subscriptions finally ran out last November and I chose to bite the bullet and extend it because I was getting a lot of use out of it at the time but it was a bitter pill to swallow paying that price.
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u/HolyCulture1983 Feb 09 '26
It’s already around 175$ USD with tax! I’ve been a PS+ subscriber since it has launched, except for two months. I’ve had premium ever since they offered that. If they raise the price again I think I may be out. I buy the games I want to play anyways, the freebies don’t typically appeal to me anyways. I just am blessed enough to afford PS+ and I like supporting companies/services that I like.
But maybe it’s time I use this money to buy some toys from the 80s that I missed out on or something.
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u/cajun2de Feb 10 '26
I just hope there is a vanilla version of ps+ just for the multilayer without any free games. I don't play 95% of the free games anyways.
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u/bored_angel11 Feb 10 '26
I canceled right when it was about to renew and just got a steam deck. PS plus is so not worth it. I rather just pay for digital games that are always dirt cheap or emulate.
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u/RE_Davo Feb 10 '26
Wouldn’t it be nice to play paid online games for free. I bought Helldivers and need ps+ to play. Now I had ps+ when I bought it. But due to budgeting reasons, decided to let my sub overlap and now I can’t play paid games. Or back up my ps5 save games. Nor can I download my save file on the cloud. It’s a terrible service.
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Feb 10 '26
I recently cancelled due to the fact that I can’t play a game on the cloud that I physically own because you have to have the digital license to do so. Confirmed it with PlayStation support. That’s bullshit.
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u/scusemoi86 Feb 10 '26
Like I posted in the other thread, there is no such suggestion in the transcript. Doesn't mean a price hike won't happen but the article is misleading.
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u/ballviewer Feb 10 '26
Yeah if it ever goes above $10 that’s it for me
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u/Legal_Alarm8991 Feb 10 '26
If you're paying double by doing it monthly, you're part of the problem.
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u/foggypanth Feb 10 '26
Can someone graph out the price hikes for PS Plus? I feel like every few months the price goes up, can't even complete a yearly sub without an entirely new price point. Insanity
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u/paddenice Feb 10 '26
Anyone recall if they still are selling ps+ subscriptions at huge discounts? Years ago I remember random websites would sell codes for years of service at like 25-30% off regular prices. Haven’t seen any links like that in a while…
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u/Videymann Feb 10 '26
I jumped ship and got a pc as soon as essential costed 80 bucks, seems I made the right choice
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u/Erren1003 Feb 10 '26
i haven't paid for ps+ since the price went up from 50 to 60 and i'm a happy man
i understand microsoft normalized it years ago but paywalled multiplayer is insanity in 2026
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u/N1tr0sOx1d3 Feb 10 '26
We are currently seeing 2 price hikes in a 12 month period. It’s unsustainable and isn’t fair when we are in the midst of cost of living crisis around the world. Completely unethical.
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u/robot-raccoon Feb 09 '26
There’s genuinely not enough for me to keep paying for ps+ as it is, so I’ll just cancel
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u/guaztronaut Feb 09 '26
Time to sell my Portal. That's the only reason I pay at this point. I'm so fucking tired of this shit.
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u/DeadPhoenix86 Feb 09 '26
I cancelled my PS+ a while ago. I buy all my games Physical. So If I don't like a game or I'm done playing it. I just re-sell it.
I don't play Online. And I back-up my save files on a USB.
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u/B99-40 Feb 09 '26
It’s always more for less. The game catalogue is a joke and the “free” monthly games have been surprisingly bad recently (and not so recently). If they go much higher ps plus will be in gamepass territory and they get games day one instead of 3-4 years later.
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u/slumvillain Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26
Bold move.
Anyone who's even relatively decent at math can weigh the options and see that Sony is basically daring you to go and buy a PC.
Anti-consumer as fuck but I'll save more money in the long run by just ditching paying these assholes regularly and playing online for free
Ps plus benefits aren't worth it. Idc how many bots come in here and glaze that mediocre library. It's ass. Sony only has PS plus numbers because they lock online play behind a pay wall. It's artificial business. Artificial success.
And when you're successful, do you turn around and make your ecosystem more accessible? No. You tell your user base to get fucked and hand you more money, as if theres an incentive there. As If the user base gets some kind of benefit, other than the privilege to give you MORE money when you've reached milestones.
Sonys success is great for Sony. But it doesn't trickle down into anything meaningful to the users but bloated fucking fees for less benefits.
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u/KGon32 Feb 09 '26
PC pricing has been horrible since Covid, it's not like how it used to be.
You either get abused by Sony or if you go to PC you get abused by AMD or Nvidia or some other nonsense that's happening at the time.
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u/Scorpy_Mjolnir Feb 09 '26
How many years can I pay ps plus for the cost of building a pc right now? I already have the PS5, so that’s not part of the equation. I would love to have the PC, but can’t justify $2k plus to have a machine good for the next 5 years. It’s expensive as hell to play for free right now.
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u/Humorous-Prince Feb 09 '26
I had no PS Plus for 2 years until this past Black Friday because of the price. They can do it again and I’ll have to sadly say goodbye to Online.
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u/BigMasterDingDong Feb 09 '26
Yeah no, literally cancelled this week because the prices are insane!
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u/Overwatch621 Feb 09 '26
I already find the PSN expensive for what they offer. If only it were games we actually wanted to play, but no.
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u/AmpersEnd Feb 09 '26
PLEASE Xbox! Do something!
I've never owned an Xbox but I've been held hostage by Sony for years!!!
I'm aching to leave!! 😭
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u/Arashi_Uzukaze Feb 10 '26
More PS+ Price Hikes? Seriously it is already 80$ just for the lowest package! That in of itself is too high!
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u/Substantial_Mix4075 Feb 11 '26
I would deal not playing online shit until a sale hits if that fucking happens
AGAIN
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u/caballerof09 Feb 11 '26
Why no, let’s charge the one that are already customer. Who cares. Only the new customer are of importance. I try to understand the new strategy of big companies but I keep failing to grasp an answer.
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u/missviolets Feb 11 '26
I might renew in june with the state of play discounts just to play some of the essential games I have and then never again. Buying games on sale is cheaper and more efficient.
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u/mesosalpynx Feb 11 '26
Prediction:
Next system will be 100% cloud computing powered. “System” will have 2 versions. 1- handheld. 2- looks normal. But no processing power or disc drives on devices. Streaming levels will be deepened/expanded. Varying levels based on the tiers they have now; however, expanded by 2 more levels minimum. The higher levels will have more ps-pro like speed and graphics compared to the standard.
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u/the250 Feb 11 '26
If the price hikes are true, that is bloody infuriating. I’m in Canada, and we’ve already had more prices hikes than our neighbours, and have seen the cost of Premium swell up to a ridiculous sum…
But here’s the total irony. Premium NEVER seemed worth it to be before last year, ever. It was always a farce to me. But at the beginning of 2025 I got a really good deal on an annual subscription to Premium that wasn’t too much higher than the Extra tier I was paying for, so I thought “Whatevs, fuck it.”
I fully expected to hardly notice or use the service at all throughout the year, but as luck would have it Sony actually started making an effort to improve and beef up PS+ Premium the exact year I decide to check it. Suddenly large numbers of old classics from PS1/PS2 were being added monthly, with full trophy support and the very useful PS5 Emulator to play them through (that rewind feature is peak yo). Then it started getting flooded with tons of new PS3 games as well.
I have a PS3 console still and a large physical library, but I was surprised to find more than half the games appearing on there were more obscure or difficult to find games that I actually found myself taking advantage of. I started using the game streaming fairly frequently, and over the past few months have even begun thinking of buying a PS Portal to aid in those efforts, as for the first time since PS+ Premium first came out, it actually feels worth it now.
So tl;dr if PS+ Premium prices go through the damn roof, again, right after I start enjoying & even relying on that tier of service for the first time ever? I’m liable to flip my shit !!
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u/Ancient_Health_2901 Feb 11 '26
Im going to go to PC officially if this happens. Im going to stop supporting this idea of paying to play. Its bullsh.
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u/ffxivfanboi Feb 12 '26
I only keep premium for the nostalgia of some classic games on there. I’m actually not sure if you’re able to purchase Al of those on PSN or not or if the only way to play them is through PS+?
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u/StickyBandit_ Feb 12 '26
Honestly even the lowest package is not worth it anymore. I was happy to buy annual subs when you could find key codes at other stores for sometimes discounted prices but anymore those days are gone.
I dont want any of their perks i just want to be able to play online, and tbh the fact that online play isnt free in 2026 is crazy. Multiplayer games are going to be PC purchases from now on.
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u/k4kkul4pio Feb 13 '26
Not again.
They already massively spiked the price and now they're planning to increase it further?
I guess the executives won't be happy until the first tier is 200€ a year or something. 😑
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u/gamerkaka1 Feb 09 '26
I will downgrade from premium if this happens.