PS Plus Subscriptions Up to 40% Off as Part of PS Store's Huge January Sale

So as I'm on Premium and want to downgrade I'm stuffed. Thanks PlayStation. I've just checked and all I have is an option to resubscribe at the full price for premium or wait for it to expire and pay full whack on Extra.

I know plenty of people are unhappy with Premium but I have to say £59.99 is an absolute steal.

Especially when you weigh up that the normal price of the basic essential package is £50

If I hadn't already snapped it up for a similar price on black Friday (£64) I'd be in there like a rat up a drain pipe

$0.81 cheaper on CDkeys. What a steal.

@Muttt who says you have to pay full wack when your sub expires? Do you know what future deals are coming up?

Not sure why PS is advertising CDKeys gift cards when Shopto has £50 gift cards on sale for £42.85.

I just downgraded from Premium to Essential and I see no reason to upgrade again even with that discount. For me, the Premium tier doesn't warrant the extra cost and the extra tier games seem to disappear way too quickly (the ones I have been interested in anyway)

I'll never upgrade from Essential, it's just not worth it

@ActionPanther Premium has been utterly pointless up until now. The only reason I got it was because I found cheap deal, but once my sub is up if it hasn't improved by then I'll be dropping down a tier at least, even of Premium can be bought relatively cheaply.

Yep I'm one of the suckers on premium so I only get the option to resub at full price. If I wanted to downgrade then there is absolutely no chance they'll let me do that!

@gamer_since_83 i was of the same mindset as you until i upgraded to extra and that is what i'll stay on because its more than worth it for the games that get thrown in. Premium for £60 is a bargain if you are a new subber. It sucks that you cant downgrade to take advantage of extra when its on offer cheaper.

How about rewarding loyal customers too!!

Why only for new Subscribers again? WTH

@riceNpea That's exactly the same for me. I had both Plus and Now on a good deal and it was merged into Premium. I only played maybe 3 games since it was launched so it was a no brainer to downgrade and save half the money per month

Doesn't appear to be a discount for re-upping your basic plan in N.America. At least not yet.

I'm on Essential (it renews in November) and I can upgrade to Extra for £20.14, which is particularly enticing. I've already got a sufficiently large backlog, but for that price I'm sure I'd get through enough Extra-exclusive games to justify the upgrade fee until renewal. Hmmmmm

$59.99 for PS Plus Extra isn't bad at all.

Is this deal over on Jan 18? My sub expires in Jan 19, so I prob won't be able to get this deal either. I have premium right now, but going to downgrade to extra as premium is not worth the extra money imo.

I'd love to add a year of Premium for that price, but I'm already on Extra so I can't? Only option is to upgrade the remainder of my sub or buy extra again for £89.99 👍 👍

I guess no stacking years on discount anymore :/

Oh well, not a big deal. I'm sure there will be an opportunity to get my next year of Extra for less than full price. I still have 8 months left so not in any hurry.

@riceNpea this is not playstation

It must be bad if they are offering discounts and people are still saying they just want out. So glad I didn't renew my basic subscription on Black Friday. I'll probably just let it run out. That's what I call a win-win.

Is there something wrong with Premium, no idea why jealousy is the hot topic?

I’ve been a PS+ subscriber since I got my PS4 in 2014, and have always topped up my subscription when there was a deal. Sony seems to have taken that off the table, so at this point I’m planning on letting my subscription lapse to see if I miss it at all.

What's really annoying is their are 3 games on premium that I want to buy but aren't available to purchase have to be subscribed & it's not worth it lol

I upgraded from Essential to Premium during Black Friday just for the retro games. Long as I can continue to get that subscription at a discount and Sony don't stop offering retro titles ill stay on Premium.

Slightly annoying that I paid £58.99 for 1yr Extra mid December, when now just 2.5 weeks later you can get Premium for £65.99. But I still think £59 for access to all those games for a year is decent. I've played 5 shorter games so far, and have another 5 or so downloaded ready to play.

But once my year is up, I will have probably had my fill and likely won't re-subscibe. I'm not short of games, just added the 'Resident Evil 2&3' remakes to my digital collection for just £12.49, and I still have a few disc & digital games I've either not played at all, or barely given a chance.

Although if you were brand new to PS4 or PS5, getting a year of Extra for £50 or Premium for £66 is a steal, given stuff like the 'Spider-Man', 'Miles Morales', 'Ghost of Tsushima', 'Death Stranding', 'Horizon Zero Dawn', 'Bloodborne' etc. are all part of Extra.

Considering they had similar deals running for Black Friday, mid December and now in January, they really seem to be trying to boost those PS+ Extra & Premium numbers.
The sales were all trending down too, I believe these were the prices of Extra/Premium on the 3 sales; BF sale was £63/£75, Dec sale £59/75 and now £50/£66. Maybe testing what people are actually willing to spend, as it certainly isn't £84/100...

At this point I'm letting mine run down and I think it finishes this or next month, I almost never play online and I think I used it to play 1 game last year. When or if the PS1/2 offerings become substantial I'll give it another go but otherwise I'm fine without it

@DaveSimonH , I subscribed to Ps extra in Dec. And I received a deal to upgrade to premium for less than £10. I guess it will come up again soon.
Okay, it's extra £10 instead of £7 if you subscribe now, but that's still not bad if you are after Premium.

Personally, I am happy for my Extra deal back in December. But why all the deals are for newcomers? There is any way to extend my subscription for cheaper like these deals?

this means ps+ extra/premium subscription numbers are lower than expected and they are scrambling to make the service more enticing. thanks for clarrifying, sony, but dropping the price is not good enough — people want better/more recent games.

So Essentialists can only wipe tears... again.

So, they give people a discount to upgrade, knowing that many people will just forget to turn off auto renew, and will re-sub again at full price next time. Clever.

Dropped from Premium to Extra recently...will probably go to Essential... realised I actually prefer to own my games rather than just rent them...