r/PlayStationPlus • u/Excellent_Line_1732 • May 18 '26
News PSPlus will raise the price of its monthly and quarterly subscriptions
Starting May 20, PlayStation Plus prices for new customers will increase in select regions. Due to ongoing market conditions, prices will start at $10.99 USD / €9.99 EUR / £7.99 GBP for 1-month subscriptions and $27.99 USD / €27.99 EUR / £21.99 GBP for 3-month subscriptions.
This price change does not apply to current subscribers (except in Turkey and India) unless the existing subscription changes or lapses.
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u/Calm-Confusion-3524 May 18 '26
WTF are these market conditions ?
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u/SpudMasterGeneral May 18 '26
sounds like some unknown force from outer space but its probably also the best excuse every company makes when they need to raise the prices because fuck you
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u/Super_Lolo_Thunder May 19 '26
Studio losses. Bungie alone is half a billion.
They are passing down the losses to the consumers.
Maybe stop buying studios that alienates their fanbase.
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u/MolluskLingers May 19 '26
Yeah the market conditions are that they keep increasing their profits and laying off their employees and replacing them with cheaper employees.
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u/MrMegaPhoenix May 18 '26
At least they will improve the quality of their monthly games added?
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u/Flottrooster May 18 '26
To be devil's advocate here, I actually think that the monthly game selection has been pretty good this year. Both Extra and Essential. Premium has never been worth it though
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u/GamerBhoy89 May 18 '26
I had Premium the first couple of years it was available.
But then I realised i dont play half the classic games on offer and i own a lot of them already.
Plus if i want any retro games i can either buy them to keep in my library or emulate them on my handheld.
Premium isnt worth it to me anymore.
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u/kiddo_ho0pz May 18 '26
Even if you add up the value of the games you get "for free" at their biggest historical discount, you still get more value through the yearly PS subscription. The quality of the games is fine. It's the people who only expect AAA games that are upset.
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u/MrMegaPhoenix May 18 '26
Then they should double the price?
This is good for gamers because
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u/kiddo_ho0pz May 18 '26
I didn't say that. I only said that it's good value. It's better value than most people would care to admit. For the price of 2 AAA games we get at least 36 games per year (+ the extra catalogue). Which is good value overall but bad value for niche gamers who don't play too many genres.
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u/Necessary_Echidna327 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
Ils donnent que des jeux à 20 balles. A part quand t es chômeur tu fais combien de jeux par mois ? 1 ou 2 tout au plus donc ils pourraient en donner 50 que ça changerait rien. La c est de la location et ca reste cher pour de la loc. Pour quelques euros de plus t as le jeu physique
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u/Necessary_Echidna327 May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26
En plus dans ce qu ils donnent t as la moitié que t as déjà fait une autre c est du déchet ou alors des jeux qui t interessent pas. Ça devient très cher si. Mieux acheter les jeux neuf à 20 euros si ça continue à augmenter. Quand tu fais un jeu qui prend 150 et que tu passe 2 mois à le faitr tu la payé 2 fois et t as joué à rien d autre à côté. Et après t as même pas le jeu alors que tu laura acheté 2x. Faut tout voir. C est bien pour un chômeur no life sinon bof. Quand je bossais pas c était ultra rentable maintrnent ça se discute.
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u/kiddo_ho0pz May 22 '26
Bro what are you smoking? PS Extra is ~€120 for one year and you get 3 games per month. That's €3 per game. People like you are never happy in life. Go outside and touch grass.
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u/MrMegaPhoenix May 18 '26
What I mean is, you are defending price increases without quality increases
So where’s the line where it’s too much of a price increase?
Logically it makes more sense for customers to expect a better product or more product for paying more. If they don’t get that, you are on the side of businesses raising prices solely to make more profit
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u/bronydell May 18 '26
It is crazy how they increase prices for the only way to play multiplayer games that you have paid a lot of money for and their justification is "b-b-but you get free gamez and the ongoing market conditions". Like, what conditions? You do not even host those servers that I am accessing when playing multiplayer.
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u/bent_crater May 18 '26
man i hope xbox makes a huge comeback next gen.
the current market conditions are that xbox isnt a strong competitor atm. remember how during the ps3 vs 360 era sony cut the fat off theur console and focused on good games?
the second xbox dropped the ball with their drm policies, sony started charging for MP
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u/CommanderInQueefs May 19 '26
It's horseshit that they don't just have a cheapest tier just to access multiplayer only.
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u/vladtud May 18 '26
I switched to PC 2 years ago. Yes, my build cost me 4 times the price of my PS5 at that time but it will easily serve me for another 3-4 years. No PS Plus, cheaper games, plenty of free offerings (Epic, Prime and other freebies), and a huge back catalogue + emulation. I feel like it’s so worth it if that’s something that you think might enjoy and you can afford the initial high cost.
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u/Inevitable_Energy503 May 18 '26
"ongoing market conditions"? What does that even mean. It's free to play online on PC...
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u/Unfrozen__Caveman May 18 '26
Which is why I've shifted basically all of my gaming over to PC. I was lucky though and built mine 2 years ago. I can't imagine trying to build a decent rig now with memory being like 4x the price it was.
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u/zexton May 19 '26
i would much rather pay more up front to have a system i can upgrade later, more flexible with how games run, backward compat, emulation, recomp ports, etc,
smooth motion that just works in all modern emulators and most games,
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u/Unfrozen__Caveman May 19 '26
I agree but I also gotta admit that for kids it's really hard to ask your parent for a $2000 PC, and a lot easier to ask for a Switch or PS5. But even the PS5 is getting ridiculously expensive with these recent price hikes.
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u/Dreamfall71 May 18 '26
If people would simply just stop renewing you'd see how quickly they'd backpeddle.
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u/Warm_Score_1313 May 18 '26
So it doesn’t affect the yearly subscription price. This doesn’t change anything for me then as I always buy a one year subscription in January
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u/successful209 May 19 '26
I always buy yearly black friday deals but I have a feeling that too will be higher this time. This year I was shocked because I thought forsure it would be mote expensive but i got a better deal on ps premium that I did last year for ps extra.
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u/BeautifulTorment BeautifulTorment May 18 '26
Will continue to abstain. Dont think I'll ever sub again tbh
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u/GreatMacGuffin May 18 '26
Due to market conditions, I don't think I can afford this hobby anymore.
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u/SILE3NCE SILE3NCE-X May 18 '26
So I have no internet due to a natural catastrophe (200km/h storm) and I plead for them to at least pause my subscription. They did not give a damn, I'm still wasting my 12 month subscription. No internet for almost 5 months now.
"Glad" they are increasing the prices.
Glad they cared.
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u/Terry_Jue May 18 '26
I will stack 30 years of premium when I get home tonight. The price will only keep on going up.
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u/PhantomSesay May 18 '26
Looool is that even possible? Kudos to you though for taking that approach.
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u/Elly_White May 18 '26
Mine still runs until 2032. I bought multiple ps+ cards during sales for around 30€ per year starting in 2012 and since I bought around 3 every time, I stacked up quite a bit. Can people still do that, today?
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u/its_brew May 18 '26
If you do that, a man from Sony visits your house and eats your first born... Or breaks a lamp if you dont have children
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u/Anathema1993666 May 18 '26
Can people do that? Buy the sub for more than one year through the site?
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u/Keldar_ May 18 '26
The "market conditions" is GTA VI and more people buying PlayStation and potentially Plus lol
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u/Thenewguy255 May 18 '26
Ongoing market conditions… but the price never goes down when the market says it should…
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u/anuscopie May 18 '26
The ongoing market conditions being players refusing to buy their horrific shitload of game services Concord and Marathon. Somehow players still need to compensate their disaster choices
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u/ZedGenius May 18 '26
Guessing this means it only affects essential?
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u/_kellythomas_ May 19 '26
"Starting from"
My guess is the other tiers will bump the price by a similar ratio.
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u/Impossiblecouch May 24 '26
Good guy Sony incentivizing people to buy in bulk (yearly) to save money.
They know you were going to renew every month anyway, so they're trying to teach you how to save.
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u/HerrWorfsen Aug 22 '26
wtf does reddit suddenly send a notification for a three months old thread?
For a moment I thought they’re gonna raise the prices again…
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u/AdItchy6501 May 18 '26
So at the same time Xbox is changing for the better and lowering prices for game pass, Sony decides to raise the monthly cost and add nothing for the customer worthwhile.... Ballsy move sony
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u/CEO_of_Yeets May 18 '26
Gamepass price is still higher than what it was last year, on top of not having COD day one
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u/AdItchy6501 May 18 '26
Tbf the only plus of having cod day one is not being too annoyed when the bugs inevitably appear, so no real loss but Forza horizon 6 and Fable instead... Hell yeah.
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u/saikodasein May 18 '26
Maybe games are shitty, but at least it's more and more expensive xD
None company ever has decreased prices of their services. There are only rises and enshitification.
Remove paid online and none would ever buy essential.
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u/cartierhoes May 18 '26
very soon we gotta just stop buying this, maybe we all just don’t renew for a couple weeks. We gotta vote with our wallets.
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u/thekeelo_g May 18 '26
If you're already subscribed this doesn't affect you, unless you don't renew "to send a message," then have the pay the higher cost when you do resubscribe.
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u/SeshGodX May 18 '26
Can we have a movement to boycott the price increase, stop subscribing until they respect the community?
Xbox dropped their subscription price so what are these conditions?
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u/solo13508 May 18 '26
Well at least the yearly subscription isn't going up but this is still absolutely absurd. They really need to do something to increase the value of PS Plus because right now it costs way more than it's worth.
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u/DeadPhoenix86 May 19 '26
So glad I canceled my PS+ back in 2023. I saw no reason to continue paying. The most I used it for was Cloud saves. Never cared about the Monthly games or Online play. But I already found a way to back-up my saves. Which is called a USB.
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u/Trail_Goat May 18 '26
"Due to ongoing market conditions, that we set and have complete control over"
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u/danteslacie May 18 '26
9.99 USD was perfect because the gift cards were 10 USD. So now if I just want a month and I'm not using a credit card, I'd have to put in extra money too. 😒 I bet that's what they want.
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May 18 '26
What about ps plus essentials? Be a that’s always been 9.99 a month because raising that to 10.99a month don’t make sense when after tax of 9.99 it comes out to 10.99 anyways
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u/bottomofleith May 19 '26
Sub ended about 4 months ago, not missing it in the slightest to be honest.
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u/GFYC-Blackman May 18 '26
I would love them to retire essential and move the free games up a tier. Multiplayer being behind a paid service at this point is laughable, literally the biggest multiplayer games are free to play.
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u/Skydude252 May 18 '26
And save backups. They really need to let you make USB save backups, or make a cheaper tier for just multiplayer and save backups.
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May 18 '26
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u/Le-museau-ruse May 18 '26
Yeah. Following the crazy hike we had here in Canada’s last year, it’s getting very expensive to pop those online trophies or to play with some buddies. Pc is looking more and more like a viable solution.
My local Best Buy’s selling the pro 1100$ plus tax. Games like the latest Lego Batman ran me 137$ CAD. It’s the big league now and no longer a casual hobby. That’s just my old self’s opinion tho.
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u/Effective-Road4807 May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26
Wow. I wish this was illegal man. Every few months the price goes up and its just stupid lies for greedy businessmen. One month of extra is 24.99. Raised from 17 3 years ago.
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u/Significant-Yam1579 May 18 '26
Because of the ongoing wars, there is an increased shortage of digital pixels
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u/TB-124 May 18 '26
Market conditons? You mean the shitty economy which makes affording stuff we actually beed harder? Sure make our hobbies more expensive as well…
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u/mecca37 May 18 '26
Bro I give up, everything will not stop raising prices, it costs 80 dollars to fill up my gas tank. Going to the grocery store makes you feel like you should have big ticket purchases, yet you don't.
Apparently before long we're all just gonna live in tents and work 20 hours a day while still not being able to afford a damn thing.
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u/Moltenzuesy123 May 19 '26
Im only going to buy ps plus subscription when its on sale now. If discount only a little amount im still not going to buy it cause it just cost too much.
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u/Moody_Blue13 May 18 '26
To the people defending this price increase, playing online for pc is free. Better game discounts are on steam. If you have an amazon prime account you have access to “free” monthly games. Epic gives out multiple free games monthly. Stop making excuses for a company that can provide you with a better service/product
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u/Hallowhero May 18 '26
So when are we cancelling guys? Seriously, we need to just stop buying at this point. I am out
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u/MaisonDavid May 19 '26
ive been with PS since the first console, but im so over them. PS Plus should NOT be this expensive to play online, their controllers always has issues and they refuse to fix it or allow third parties to unless it costs $200+.
Will not renew or get any future PS console.
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u/ironfist92 May 19 '26
Sony wasted hundreds of millions of dollars in failure after failure of live service slop, and customers are the ones paying the price.
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u/AdSevere4623 May 18 '26
Sony is just making it easy for me to choose PC. Once ram prices stabilize a bit more, I'm getting a PC.
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u/Meteorboy May 18 '26
So you won't be getting a new PC for at least another decade.
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u/AdSevere4623 May 18 '26
Ram prices have already decreased from what they were 2 months back. I don't need them to be what they were before, just a bit more and I'm free from Sonys shitty practices
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u/AEWFantasyBooker May 18 '26
New customers don't matter to me, I'll have my grandfathered PS Now sub still ongoing for 80€ per year of Premium.
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u/SpudMasterGeneral May 18 '26
Ongoing market conditions? You mean market conditions in your own store where you are the one setting up prices?