Starting September 22nd 2016, Sony is increasing the price of a Playstation Plus Memebership in North America. The Playstation Blog has been updated with August's game list as well as the pricing info.

12 months will be $59.99 USD / $69.99 CAD
3 months wiil be $24.99 USD / $29.99 CAD
Monthly will be $9.99 USD / $11.99 CAD

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[vincentx77]

you only get to keep the games on the 360 after cancellation, on the xb1 you need an activate subscription to play any games with gold

Given how long I've had ps+ and how many ps3 games I have through the service, that would still be a win. Especially if it extended to the Vita. Most of the PS4 freebies have been, well, underwhelming.

 

[rdurbin]

at least they didnt raise the monthly rate (even tho most probably paid yearly, like myself). You can stock up on yearly subscriptions if you want at the $50 price.

 

[KingAsix]

It's crazy how people are tripping over a $10 and what, a $7 increase...Most of you probably spend $40-$60 every other month (maybe every month) on a new game. The funniest part is the complaints about the free games....Do you expect a new AAA game every month or something?

 

[Deleted User]

sony... why?

 

[netovsk]

Its getting an increase here in banana land too, just received the email from Sony. 30% here, will renew for 1 more year before it happens.

 

[driverdis]

good thing my subscription renews on the 16th of September

 

[Deleted User]

Its getting an increase here in banana land too, just received the email from Sony. 30% here, will renew for 1 more year before it happens.

So how much is it going to cost for South Americans now, if I may ask?

 

[Lucifer666]

I don't see this has news worthy. Slow day at the office? Lol.

The month n 3 month prices went up by 4 cents and the year price went up by 10 dollars. Not that big of a deal. That 10 dollar a year increase works out to be a 83 cents a month increase for the year. Again not a big deal. That's like 8-12 cups of coffee, a year less you could give up to continue the yearly price.

4 cents? I paid $17.99 for 3 months and now its $24.99. That's $7. Still waiting for an email from Sony about this (Do I need to be subscribed to a newsletter or anything?) since I'm not in North America but I am in a region where I'm billed in USD.

PS Plus was already dropping in value. This just makes me glad I didn't renew my subscription. If they actually start giving solid games each month I'll consider resubscribing, but if it keeps going the way it has been I won't renew it.

The August lineup was great. Rebel Galaxy which is a huge hit at the moment and which all my PC friends are paying $20+ for is mighty fun, and Tricky Towers is a weird spin on Tetris where there's gravity involved. Let's not forget we were given exclusive access to that Resident Evil 7 demo. These titles are getting a lot of playtime out of me, at least.

 

[netovsk]

The funniest part is the complaints about the free games....Do you expect a new AAA game every month or something?

Not really complaining about the ps plus since it's a no brainer except in very rare scenarios, but I expect respect from Sony and games on par with the console capabilities and not android games in the likes of tricky towers. The games are not free, sony milks at least 100 million USD a month which gives them more than 10 million dollars for each developer to make their game available on the service.

Well, Tricky Towers and Broforce definitely don't look like 10 million dollars to me, more like 10 thousand.

And if it weren't outrageous enough the way it is, Tricky Towers has dlc.

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So how much is it going to cost for South Americans now, if I may ask?

A banana land walmart worker makes 30 BR$ a day, a PS$ costs ~ 1.900 BR$, AAA new releases go for 230 BR$ and PS Plus goes for 99 BR$ for an year and will go up in price for 129 BR$ yearly and 24,99 BR$ monthly according to Sony's email.

At least the PS Plus is cheap here, compared to everything else.

 

[chartube12]

you only get to keep the games on the 360 after cancellation, on the xb1 you need an activate subscription to play any games with gold

Not true. My gold has been expired on for a few weeks already. No other account currently on my xbox one has gold. My free games are still playable. You are confusing playstation plus "free" games with xbox one's truely free ,games with gold.

 

[Steena]

You lose access to the "free" games if you stop paying PSN right?
So I guess they can safely increase the price every once in a while to exploit that sweet sunk cost fallacy now that they hold so many games hostage. Infact that's probably a major reason for why they designed the subscription model this way (that is, tying multiplayer access with "free" game deals together with no option to get either individually).

Never going to pay a single cent for peer2peer, as I already pay those money to my ISP; and I don't need to pay taxes for services that don't exist. Hope at least nintendo won't jump on that cancerous bandwagon nextgen.

 

[leon315]

this is a complete bullshit, u can HAVE EITHER GOOD online service even it's free, both M$ and $ony are just pretending to much mohney...just take STEAM as a good example, pc games are far cheaper than consols' one, and it's also free from any premium multi player online service, beside free SHITTY games should be never ever be a reason to have up us to get gold/psn+......

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Not true. My gold has been expired on for a few weeks already. No other account currently on my xbox one has gold. My free games are still playable. You are confusing playstation plus "free" games with xbox one's truely free ,games with gold.

What happens to my Games with Gold games if I cancel my Xbox Live Gold subscription?

On Xbox One, you will no longer be able to access your Games with Gold titles if you cancel your subscription. However, if you decide to renew your subscription at any time, you will be able to access and play your previously redeemed Games with Gold titles again.

On Xbox 360, any Games with Gold titles that you redeem as an Xbox Live Gold member are yours to keep, regardless of whether you continue your subscription.

http://support.xbox.com/en-US/my-account/xbox-live-membership/games-with-gold-faq

 

[HomebrewJay]

Good thing I moved on to PC gaming. The PS4 is only good for exclusive games honestly; nothing else. Then again, I shouldn't really complain since Sony publishes really good ones..

 

[Ericzander]

Err...no? The price is effective on the 22nd, as in starting on the 22nd all PS+ memberships will change to this price. You could purchase a hundred thousand 1 year subscriptions before that date for the original price and each one would still give you a year.

As for the news, who cares? As Joe said, PS+ cards go on sale so often you'll never pay full price 99% of the time.

The question I have is if the cards will still be discounted to the $35-40 range I see them once they increase the base price.

 

[Selim873]

Nice. *turns auto renewal off*

Jokes aside, I really only use my PS4 for single player games anyway. No clue why I even pay for PSPlus. At least No Man's Sky doesn't require PSPlus to play, though it got super repetitive after a few hours.

 

[DKB]

lol 10 dollars and everyone loses their shit fail

 

[Selim873]

lol 10 dollars and everyone loses their shit fail

Some people have to go as far as cancelling something if it's even $10 more. I've had to cancel Spotify Plus ($10 a month) because I was afraid of not being able to pay bills. And some people will only buy month cards and use them when they know they'll play online and stay offline most of the year.

 

[DKB]

Some people have to go as far as cancelling something if it's even $10 more. I've had to cancel Spotify Plus ($10 a month) because I was afraid of not being able to pay bills. And some people will only buy month cards and use them when they know they'll play online and stay offline most of the year.

I would understand if it cost 60 bucks a month, but this is 12 months. For 60 dollars. I think a homeless person could make more money in a year by getting atleast a quarter in change everyday.

If someone is that worried about 60 dollars a year and worried that might affect their being able to pay bills or not, then, to be honest..I don't think they should buying a Playstation Plus or a PS4 in the first place.

 

[Armadillo]

Sony may as well bump it up to $150 then, make even more money if that's how people see it. Don't worry, it's still only $2.88 a week, you can just go without a cup of coffee.

It's not just about the $10 bump, it's a price increase while the service and games being offered get worse. It's 2016 and you still can't change your psn name. 2 factor auth is just barely rolling out (test phase in Aus and NZ). It's a price bump that Sony has done nothing to justify.