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Do You Think PS+ Will Ever Go To $70? - Moonface - Oct 19th, 2021
PlayStation Plus is currently $60, and has been that way since it was first introduced if I'm not mistaken. That price matches the cost of what a game used to be before the introduction of a $70 price point this generation, and I was wondering if Sony would eventually consider raising the price of PS+ to match the price of the games or if it'll stick at $60 for a lot longer.
If you don't recall, Microsoft tried to outright double the price of Xbox Live Gold back at the start of the year to $120, and it got shot down and reverted back to the $60 price point. $70 games have had a mixed reception generally, but that price is clearly here to stay, at least on PlayStation since I don't think other systems are doing that unless the game is third party, which I don't count as being something the hardware company has a part of.
If Sony did ever hike the price of PS+ to $70 a year, would you continue to use the service or would you drop it unless you had use for it with a game that has online you want to play for a brief period before putting it down for the next big release?
I know Microsoft haven't raised their game prices yet (and I doubt they will, unless they do it to push more people to Game Pass), but for those on Xbox would you pay $70 for Gold? I know this thread mostly focuses on PS+ but that's just because Sony have already begun setting a precedent of putting prices up and succeeding whereas Microsoft hasn't tried it barring the aforementioned Gold price hike.
RE: Do You Think PS+ Will Ever Go To $70? - Dragon Lord - Oct 20th, 2021
I'm in the "maybe" camp, but hopefully Sony has been paying attention the extreme backlash from the Nintendo community after the $30 price increase for NSO.
If they do increase the price to $70, hopefully they'll realize they need to add a little more to PS+ to make it worth it. Either buy offering a few additional games every month, or just increase the quality of the games PS+ offers for free. Rarely do you see any big name AAA Games being given away. The last one probably being FFVII Remake back in... March, was it?
Anyways, I don't think it'll happen any time soon, but if it does, hopefully they implement a way to make the $10 increase worth it to the players.
RE: Do You Think PS+ Will Ever Go To $70? - Mr EliteL - Oct 20th, 2021
Since I've barely or not at all used online gaming recently that requires subscription, both for my PS4 (curently don't have PS+) and Switch (currently have just over a month left on NSO), I'm leaning towards I wouldn't get a full year most certainly if it is bumped up to $70, er...£60 I assume for UK. They dare do that thing where the UK price goes even closer to the US' and make it £65, then heck no. I'll accept the 10 increase if there's more for everyone on PS Plus, even if I won't be interested, similar to what DL said but ultimately I hope the higher price won't happen yet.
RE: Do You Think PS+ Will Ever Go To $70? - Moonface - Oct 20th, 2021
If it happened, I expect it would be when Sony starts offering more expensive PS5 games through PS+. So far most if not all of the games are cheaper ones or just nothing notable, but eventually there's going to be bigger things going into that service. Of course much like the N64 games on Switch, whether a $10 increase for better PS5 PS+ games is good or not is going to depend on whether the individual thinks the games being offered are actually worth the extra price.