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It’s been just over a week since PlayStation announced a massive overhaul of its subscription services. Starting June, Sony will merge PS Plus and PS Now services into the all-new PS Plus.
However, there is quite a lot of negative discussion surrounding the new pricing. The PlayStation service will reportedly hold substantially more games than its competitor Xbox Game Pass. Despite this, consumers aren’t so keen to join the service as it won’t have first party games on the day of release. This is one of the main boons to the Xbox service, as players have access to current games without paying the rising retail prices. Aside from these issues, the three tiers, as well as the complicated merger of current services into the new system, have left many scratching their heads.
Subscribers to the service will be looking to play PlayStation exclusive titles like the excellent Horizon Forbidden West which you can take a look at in the video below.
PlayStation has attempted to offer those who are already subscribed integration into the new system when the change takes place. This has led to some loopholes, as the services are not one-to-one comparisons. Those who use the PS Now service to stream PlayStation games to their PCs will be some of the hardest hit, as there will be a significant increase in costs following the change.
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A way around this was to purchase an annual PS Now subscription, which would then convert to the equivalent all-new PS Plus Premium subscription in June. The current PS Now annual subscription is about half the price of the new tier, so it made quite the saving. This led people to start stockpiling the annual cards, hoping to either resell them, or keep on saving for years to come.
However, PlayStation has hit back in two ways. Before the announcement of the new system they removed the physical cards from sale, however the digital codes have also been removed from the online store. Those who redeem the annual subscription before the new system launches in June will maintain the Premium membership for the remainder of the 12 months. However, it doesn’t matter how many codes you have stocked up, anything redeemed afterwards will be defunct.
Looks like hoarding those PS Now codes won’t pay for my retirement after all.
Topics: PlayStation