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Topics: PlayStation 5, Playstation Plus, PlayStation, Sony
Topics: PlayStation 5, Playstation Plus, PlayStation, Sony
There are so many subscription services out there right now that paying for all of the ones you actually want to use can be a bit of a daunting prospect, assuming you don't live in a house with a huge pool of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck.
The problem becomes even more tricky if you game on several platforms, and you might find yourself having to choose between Game Pass or PlayStation Plus, particularly with the price increases for the former now on the immediate horizon.
Fortunately, both are quite compelling offerings, so at the very least you are paying for a service that you will likely use, and use regularly. If you are a PlayStation fan, then PS Plus comes in three tiers, Essential, Extra and Premium, each with their own set of benefits that increase with each step you go up.
Premium, as the name suggests, is the best available option, with all of the bonuses from the previous tiers, as well as some additional rewards that you only get if you plum for the most expensive tier.
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The biggest highlight there is probably access to the Classics library, which includes a ton of genuinely brilliant titles from earlier generation PlayStation consoles, as well as cloud streaming for many of those titles and the ability to trial new games before you buy them.
All of that comes at a cost though, and you're looking at £39.99/$49.99 for three months of the service at that level - usually.
Over on Reddit, one player shared a screenshot of a pretty compelling offer they were given, where Sony provided those three months at a 100% discount, for a grand total of £0/$0.
Whilst this might seem like a dream come true for everyone, the OP asked whether it might have been offered because they had just bought a new PS5 console, and many in the comments drew the same conclusion.
"I believe it’s a new console thing, I saw a bundle deal on some of the retailers’ website in Australia which stated free three months PS Plus Deluxe for consoles purchased and activated between 10-21 October," one said.
Whilst that obviously won't be beneficial to everyone, particularly the day one PS5 gang, it is good that those who've just dropped several hundreds worth of their local currency won't then also have to drop an additional 40 to get in on all of the potential fun.