PS Plus Price Increase Announced by Sony for New Members

Ah, that's great news! Keep it up, Sony.

Not surprising, shocked that they didn't increase it for all tiers and subscribers, but probably using it to keep people subscribed.

@LiamCroft “It seems the 12-month option isn't impacted. If you allow your current PS Plus membership to expire, you will need to start paying the increased price.”

I read that as even if you’re an annual subscriber and let your subscription lapse, the next time you re-subscribe for a full year there will be no price increase. Is that correct, or have I misinterpreted it?

Or just buy it from Loaded and get it discounted. Save money anyway you can on these subscriptions. And buy a years sub in one, not monthly as that's how they get you.

Well, better not let my son's lapse then. It doesn't feel worth £7.99 tbh.

I cancelled plus a few months ago and haven't looked back. I don't really play multiplayer and it made me realise how many games I have from plus installed, but will likely never get around to playing. My backlog of purchased games will likely last me years.

Cool. They got rid of their main competitor, so now they can do whatever the ***** they want.

If Sony can’t sell ugly clothes in live service games, they look for other sources of recurring income. Tada, PS Plus!

Because of the previous increases I went all the way from premium to essential and I have zero regrets.

Forget about cost of hardware. Base subscription is gonna price itself out. Theres a reason why free to play games that dont require ps plus/gamepass to play online are so popular

@Balaam_

That's what I want to know too.

I guess the other tiers will follow before GTA6 releases.

@get2sammyb Microsoft, Biggest Publisher. Day one games on Gamepass, other perks, except for Call of Duty. Price hike good or bad for Gamepass made sense but PlayStation Plus???

Meanwhile I'm over here grandfathered into PS Premium from Now that still renews at half price...

Letting people keep the old price when it renews automatically is interesting (unless I misunderstood this).

@get2sammyb that and maybe switching tiers often (as in: upgrading to extra for a month and going back to basic later) - because you can't downgrade unless you let it lapse

Well, this is nowhere near as bad as expected. I hope it’s not just the first of a two-part change…

Didn't Sony increased the price like 3-4 months ago?

This is sucks though. sigh, if only PS+ isn't mandatory to play online fighting games :/

At least the year sub isn't increasing (for now). I never buy monthly anyways just because I know I can be saving money if I just get it for a year, at least when I feel like getting it at all.

I got rid of plus, I got rid of YouTube premium. I'm going to find other methods to not be swindled out of my money.

@AtlasLivesAgain you have an odd idea of worth given even if you just played 1 game a month it would basically pay for itself even with the lowest end games.

This just keeps getting worse for me. I don't sub for games or multiplayer but still I have to pay more. Sony are getting worse and worse as the gen goes on. And no I don't care what microslop are doing or that they raised prices for something I don't use on their consoles.

Price rises aren't good obviously but unfortunately they were to be expected.

As price rises go though, (assuming you pay monthly) an extra £1 a month is hardly going to break the bank I wouldn't have thought, So at least they aren't the astronomical rises that we experienced a few years ago.

Personally I always pay for 12 months in full rather than monthly

I was a premium member when this all started out.
when the first price increase happened i dropped down a tier.
If they carry on like this am gonna drop out altogether and just pay for as and when i feel like playing online.
this is getting ridiculous really. massive fail this generation

@For-Kier And sometimes there isn't anything we add to the library. It's the online playability we sometimes use and why we have it, but even that is fairly sparse. I disagree about low tier, though. Those games will go on sale for around £3-£5. Do you not consider that it is a bit of a subjective matter?

Council tax up, water bill up, gas/electricity up, TV licence up, sky TV up, netflix up, broadband up, car tax up, petrol price up, Mobile phone bill up, food prices up, car/house/health insurance up, mortgage/rent up.
Just add it to the list Sony, see you next year for more

What a bunch of bull 💩! 😡

@Deshalu essential is ok extra and premium are trash though compared to xbox gamepass complete joke

@Deshalu everything is going up idk why u all shocked and surprised every sub is going up inflation is higher energy cost etc

Everyone is doing this stop with fake freak out people inflation is at 3.8

By no means defending this, that would be insane, but £1 and £2 could be a lot worse. The value in my 12 months PS Plus Essential sub every year is worth every penny given the yearly games I get from it, even with the sometimes terrible months that ain't to my tastes

That's what you get for not buying Marathon. And Concord. And Saros. And Horizon: Chubby Chasing.

@Member_the_game yeah its only a 14% price rise

Due to "ongoing market conditions." Orange and felonious market conditions.

Mine lapsed in November and seeing as there was no sale I left it. Seeing as I very rarely play online Sony has yet to give me a reason to re-sub. Not worth it to me at it's current price.

Still waiting for them to update the ps plus pc app, its been the same for years

Not surprised. My sub lapsed six months ago and I have not re-upped because I’m waiting on a sale, not an increase. I guess they don’t want my subscription, not for that price.

I wonder if PS Plus subscriber numbers are up or down in 2026. Maybe they’re raising prices to recoup money lost to losing subscribers?

@Dan12836666 in your opinion. You missed that bit.

I'd already decided when my yearly subs runs out in June I'm giving it a wide berth. Mainly as Sony have left a worse taste this year in my mouth than Liddl's (un)finest plonk. Better rush through Outlaws and Bramble this week when they drop tomorrow mind.

Hiking the price on the basic tier makes no sense to me, even if it's a $1 price increase.

On the other hand, I'm safe on the Premium/Deluxe tier for now so idk how I should feel.

Gotta get that Concord, Marathon, Saros and the next Horizon game money from somewhere I guess.

@Lup What about Xbox needing the Kiln money?

@INeedGoodGraphics if you do not sub for games or multiplayer why do you sub? 😅

Can’t remember who I said on here to that PS Plus prices would rise before the end of the year. But there you go!

You have plenty of games. You do not need a subscription to this.

Well I had no plans to subscribe back to it anyway ...but at this rate I doubt I ever will again

It's crap compared to gamepass ...and one has decreased the price ...the other increases...brilliant stuff playstation

@Oram77 Don't forget Avowed and the Outer Worlds 2 as well. Some people love the snide remarks aimed at flops or games they're not interested in. Someone has to provide some balance eh? So I've been told before.

I never bother with the longer subs anymore on PlayStation or NSO. If I know I've got some free time to play some games, I'll occasionally get one month of premium and synch my saves up at the same time. Feel I get decent value as play through a few 'rentals' I'd probably not bother owning and try a lot of games I'm curious about to see if worth an actual purchase. NSO I just don't bother at all, just play my retro consoles.

@Weebleman certainly is my opinion not discounting anykne elses opinion on anything but thats mine

@ATaco If you have an android, you can use two or three different YouTube front ends. I use two of them all lot. Newpipe, and Noutube. Both are YouTube apps that give you all the YouTube premium perks for free, and best of all they're open source. So there's a way to save money on YouTube for you at least lol.

Noutube is also available as a native desktop app, no need to bother with the browser at all anymore.

Probably wouldn't hurt to renew it for a year soon...just in case.

@get2sammyb I see where both of you are standing with your comments. However I think his points to more of a concern people have.

Sony needs to cover costs for sure, but gamepass does give a ton more than PS+ (one of its issues IMHO). Sony having done so "well" and being so profitable this gen, it kinda feels a tad silly.

Yeah MSFT raised the price, which was dumb, but Sony raising it seems so unnecessary.

@trev666

In 2023 it went up by 20% in the UK and 33% in the US

So my point is that whilst any form of price rise is frustrating, it could be a lot worse

For the first time since PS+ was offered (beta?) in PS3 era... I didn't renew my sub this year. I'm stick of these price increases and paywalls. If something doesn't improve next gen (go back PS3 era model), I'm done with PlayStation.

@Balta666 So I can back up my save data. I have multiple PS5's and I can't back up PS5 save data to a USB stick. Sony removed that feature this gen.

At least it's not a Microsoft level increase...

Due to ongoing market conditions sounds like BS for an online subscription that’s doesn’t even offer many games.

Are the ongoing market conditions in the room with us?

@Shinnok789 GamePass Essential is probably the most comparative to this and it’s $9.99. So with this price increase , PS Plus Essential will actually be $1 more.

Does Lina Khan have anything to say about it?

I renew just before my premium expires during the Black Friday sales every year. But I’m guessing sale prices will be higher now even though I’m an existing subscriber, and the “remain the same for existing subscribers” just counts for those that let it auto renew at full price.

@INeedGoodGraphics oh right, that sucks. TBF I have the same on switch but it is not that much money

@awp69 PS Plus Essential is $80 a year, and Gamepass Essential is $120 a year.

Personally, I’d prefer the monthly charge to be higher, if they offer a yearly reduced rate.

Don't forget, Sony stated in an earnings call, that they would make up for their live service blunders and slowing console sales by further monetizing their current install base.

I suspect this is just the beginning of needless price gouging and whatever else they cook up to make good on that shareholder promise, despite many feeling the pinch of a disgusting economic direction humanity continues down.

@MrPeanutbutterz same here. I basically don't use premium, but it would actually cost me money to downgrade.

Well, they said they'd be doing stuff like this. And I get raising the price - but I'm stunned at the lack of outcry when they decided PS5 saved games won't be savable to USB. Disgusting behaviour to force people into a PS+ subscription, where you lose your cloud saves if your subscription is lapsed for 6 months.

Is this like the 8th price increase on anything playstation? Like damn do these guys need another ps3 moment to get their heads out of their rears or what

Off topic, but has anyone else had the problem where you go to your game library, and you hide games/demos or whatever, leave the the library, go back and all the hidden games etc are showing in your library again? Annoying as heck. Anyway, on topic, maybe they are going to match Xbox (sorry, XBOX) by reducing the price of their most expensive tier?! No, I doubt it too. This gen has been truly woeful

@Swirly Same here with the library/hiding issue - thought it was just happening to me. Very frustrating - hope there is a fix soon.

No I won't definitely be bothering ever again, I've moved over to Xbox GamePass Premium and I've been enjoying it far more. Got to play Oblivion Remastered, Expedition 33, Space Marine 2 and then some online and it's been great.

Sony: "Starting May 20, PlayStation Plus prices for new customers will increase in select regions."

Me: "Starting after my subscription ends, PlayStation Plus prices for this customer will decrease in the region of my home."

By 100%, no less.

@Balaam_ just means the price hasn't increased at all for 12 month even if you aren't subscribed

I'll stick to my yearly premium that's always in a 30% off when it renews. Genuinely no idea why people are now paying £96 a year for Essential when Premium/Extra are around £90 and £70 for 12 months.

Seeing some certain comments really makes me laugh, those same people weren't complaining when gamepass got a hefty price increase but are not happy when Sony raise it by a £1 😂😂🤡.

The classic "due to market conditions." They say this so when gas prices, ram prices, or whatever current headache drops in price they dont have to cut prices in response. Its permanent.

So now on top of the $600+ for a base ps5 newcomers need to spend at least $130 per year for online(before taxes on all this). Its getting really hard to recommend playstation to any newcomers.

@Bluemoon2008 Yeah I used to keep the sub up for playing Street Fighter 6 online, but I seem to have "retired" from it now. I definitely dip my toes in over the year to things I otherwise wouldn't (like I'm replaying Spider-Man 2 at the moment but wouldn't have bought another disc, been eyeing Star Wars Outlaws for a bit and it's coming tomorrow, had a post-Dark Souls 3 funk, so downloaded both Wolong and Lord of the Fallen for a Sous-liie fix, etc). And I do try the demos and have made a few purchases based on them (though gating demos behind a sub is scummy).

Scummier again of course is PS5 saves backups being gated behind the sub.

@KidRyan Sorry about your work situation. Been there myself, it can be hellish.

@Deshalu they lowered the price for Ultimate to $22.99.a month.

If people are really crying and whining about an increase of this degree, then they're hypocrites the moment they buy a game.

I know people like a good old complain, but so many votes for Essential not being worth it? It easily represents great value for what you get.

Essential is straight dog s.... take that one out and keep extra and premium

@Dan12836666 think the opposite tbh. 1000+ games for £7-8 a month is an absolute bargain. How much is gamepass now over £200 a year. And it was nearly 300 until they removed COD off it. For far less games too.

I still want a "basic" tier for online play, save backups, and keeping access to previously claimed 'free' games only. I really don't care about the games on Essential any more as they've been crap for too long now. £25 a year and they'd get a ton of subs I reckon. They're leaving money on the table otherwise.

Not really fussed, I've never let mine lapse and an extra £1 is hardly worth crying about anyway, it's £12 a year...stuff goes up in price unfortunately.

Personally I think both PS+ Essential and Game Pass Core are extremely bad value and basically a 'blackmail' Sub service to get the FULL content/features of your Hardware and play the games you've bought. Games like Battlefield, CoD etc aren't $/£70 on Console, they are $70+ a Sub fee paid to the Console Manufacturer and stop paying the Sub fee, you lose access to the games you paid money to play on that Hardware.

A sub fee shouldn't be required to play the games you've already bought, already paid money to play. Consoles aren't 'cheap' these days as it is. If you want access to full range of Content available on a Console, you have to pay an additional $100+ a year - which adds up over the years making the Cost significantly higher and as I said above, stop paying and you don't just lose access to the games they gave you, but you lose access to a large part of your Library, maybe all games you paid money to play.

I think its crazy that after paying $70 to Play a game, I have to pay an additional $10 a month to be able to play it on the Hardware I bought it for. Its blocking games/content/features that you bought your Hardware for behind a Paywall, things that you get as standard on PC and don't require a Sub to unlock.

The Game Library tiers (Premium, Ultimate etc) that add a library of games you can download and play anytime you remain Subscribed is a different matter, but the 'Core/Essential' tier that are basically required or you can't access the games you've bought, can't use all the features/content the Hardware comes with etc is ridiculous in 2026.

@Dan12836666 premium is only useful when you got a PS Portal if not stick with essential

@UltimateOtaku91 They are bad actors aka PC/Xbox borg they will try to use anything to push everyone into the pc/Xbox Collective. They want to Badger , bully and harass you until you become a pc gamer.

@Weebleman No they didn’t, you missed it. The statement was an obvious value judgement, which is subjective by nature. Opinion is implied, and need not be stated.

@SBBuds Didn't you get the memo?

You have to act outraged, attack the nasty corporation and vow to never buy PS+ again.

Honestly, at this stage neither gamepass nor ps plus are worth the fee.

Saying that every year I say im going to cancel, and I do, until I get the inevitable 50% off email. To date this year though ive not once played online nor played a single game from the premium library.

I should probably get on that before my membership expires in October.

I do feel bad though for new gamers, they are paying a lot more for the same experience weve had for 6 years.

At least we can count on Sony to reduce prices when market conditions improve.

-Ongoing market conditions
-Price increase on digital membership

Makes sense lol. Usually this happens when there's a lot of cancellations and a price increase is made to compensate for the loss and to keep shareholders happy. I cancelled my PS Plus years ago when the bigger price increase occurred.

@Slayer25c Going from £7 to £8 a month is a 14.3% increase. The 3.8% inflation figure you’re citing is year-over-year — meaning consumers already experienced those broader price increases before this new one arrived.

@Accipitridae nope. The statement is presented as a fact, not an opinion. Hence the follow up response to myself clarifying it is their opinion.

I think you will find it is you, who missed that.

@LiamCroft Just turned back on auto-renew to save that $3 in July! Thanks for the head's-up mate! Cheers! 😎

I requested price increases to celebrate the psn anniversary, and they finally listened.

@Weebleman The statement can’t be presented as fact unless explicitly stated so because it carries subjective connotations. It is understood to be opinion, and arguing otherwise is arguing in bad faith. You know when somebody says “X is trash”, they are giving an opinion and cannot be stating a fact. To suggest otherwise is disingenuous.

"Given the stage of our console cycle, our hardware sales strategy can be adjusted flexibly, and we intend to minimize the impact of the increased memory costs on this segment going forward by prioritizing monetization of the installed base to date,"

Tao Lin Sony Group CFO
You told us you were going to shake us down already, no need to lie to our faces

I'm surprised Sony hasn't made it so you still need a subscription to play F2P games. I'm sure that would rake in a lot of money for them (as well as royally upset their playerbase too)

That’s not the way to entice me back Sony.

So I take it more content has been added to account for this increase?