Sony Defends PS Plus Price Hike, Explains Why It Won't Put Games There Day One

I’m good on the movies, thanks. Higher tiers of PS plus we’re good while I built of my ps5 catalogue , but I got most of the classics for cheap or with ps plus monthly games .

I have a year or so until my roll over time from old ps plus premium expires, so I guess I’ll see how it plays out.

The price hike for the two upper tiers of PS+ are perfectly understandable and MAYBE even justifiable but not for the essential tier since zero value has been added. You'll still get 2, sometimes 3, free games per month of varying quality and access to online gaming. At least with the upper tiers you get a game catalogue with a great lineup of games you can stream or download.

He sounds so bitter - can’t even mention Xbox by name, while Phil regularly talks about Sony games, congratulates them on social media and doesn’t pretend that using “The one that can’t be named” will somehow help Sony’s image.

GP raised prices when they knew a 70bn investment in games was going through - Sony raised and offered some old movies and the option to pay more for newer ones.

initially they say price increase to bring in better quality game, now defend because streaming service and market condition?The streaming service is for premium and above subscription, "Essential" tier that has no streaming service is also receiving a price hike, what worst, the streaming service is not even ready.

Market condition? AFAIK, game prices on PS store is always far more expensive compared to Steam esp indie games, some of them even double the price! They said as if they're making loss already

Good luck defending the price hike, I'm just gonna wait for my subs to expire

Would sound a lot less fake and hollow company speak if they offered a tier without the free games that just let you play online for like $10 a year or something.
No one gives a **** about your free games, if PS+ wasn't the only way to play online 40-60% of their subs would vanish.

Only Sony could get away with raising the price on an inferior product and then say it has a lot of value.

Price elasticity. They're finding the upper limit they can set while minimizing loss of subs. The customers have all the control here but it's a process that takes time and gamers tend to be pretty compulsive. If people close their wallets for long enough Sony will back off. But I don't know if enough people will hold out long enough to make an impact. I mean pre orders are still a thing and there's no question that has led to unfinished and broken releases.

Jim Ryan’s virtuous cycle

I've been paying for my PS+ membership for years even though I virtually never play any online MP games. I do it for the monthly games, since I could usually pick it up for $40 I didn't mind paying in. That being said I'll have to eat that collection loss and maybe just pay for the occasional month when I feel like digging into the backlog. I have no intention of throwing down that kind of cash for something a rarely use. I haven't looked into it but maybe if they allow membership pauses I'll just freeze it up until I get the urge to pump out a few titles.

Very disappointed. I expected better of Sony but being so far in the lead in console sales has never been a good place for them. They're always better to consumers when they're worried.

It is all right Sony, I vote with my wallet. As you can decide to increase the prices, I can decide not to sub. Not to mention PC Game Pass is whats keep me busy for the last few weeks and probably coming months. Was a long time PS Plus subscriber and played exclusively on PS, but the pricing made me realise the PC gaming freedom. Built a PC (7800X3D, 4090) and PS is collecting dust.

Like any other product or service, Sony can set their prices and customers can choose to buy or not. Sony have every right to do this, it's the free market.

And I will vote with my wallet and choose not to renew. The last straw was Sony sending a passive aggressive email stating that I can renew or let it expire which I will do.

My PlayStation Plus expires next month and I don't agree with the price hike across the tiers. I never paid full price for PlayStation Plus when it was $50-$60, I would always get it at a discounted price of $32 even $40 from third party sites that sold online memberships.

This is what I have to say to all the PlayStation Players out here. If you still support them, you are the fool. This is the time that, you should speak up with your wallets and make yourself heard. If Xbox did this, we would make them pay and they know that already, which is why they have done really well for us the players.

Sony knows that they can nickel and dime you all to death and no one will leave because you all are too loyal to that plastic box and it's a shame. Sometimes in life you have to take a stance and say enough is enough and until that happens Sony will keep making fools out of their gamers. Nintendo doesn't do this and neither does Xbox only Sony because they see you the gamers as a paycheck and not humans.

i very rarely ever use ps plus because i don't see any reason why i should have to pay them to play online that's what i pay my internet provider for.

the last time they uped prices was 2017 lol incorrect when they switched to a tier system they added 2 new prices so that is a price change even tho there new versions.

While they should absolutely NOT put games on there day-one, because they have no reason to, they also have zero justification in this much of a price hike. There is no market condition justification for this. This sounds like when Jeff Bezos was in support of gas prices going up to $7, saying it was market conditions. This is price gouging.

What a transparently greedy pack of lies... Everything he said is a self-justifying excuse. I'd actually respect it more if he would just boldly come out and say, "Because I think I deserve more money." Still a scummy outlook, but at least it'd be honest.

GTFO.

My sub expires next month, and when it does, i will ignore ps+ like it doesn't exist. Charging to play online in 2023 is laughable, but charging as much as they do is just DA F*CK?! I hope they lose millions and millions of subs. So much so we see em panic. That's all they deserve this generation.

Yeah just great value since price hike.. access to a selection of trash movies and PS5 streaming nobody asked for. New catalog games leave alot to be desired imo as well!