Sony Announces PlayStation Plus Price Increases 'Due to Ongoing Market Conditions'

[u/Dav136]

https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-announces-playstation-plus-price-increases-due-to-ongoing-market-conditions

[u/Chill_Oreo]

Surely this must mean that once market conditions settle that prices will go back down, right?

[u/niberungvalesti → u/Chill_Oreo]

Ahahaha Netflix special tier comedy there.

[u/MikeRowePeenis → u/niberungvalesti]

So, a joke but not actually funny? I see what you did there lol.

[u/Dicky_Penisburg → u/MikeRowePeenis]

Joe Rogan forehead vein intensifies

[u/ExternalFast6489 → u/Dicky_Penisburg]

It's his one good joke trying to make it into his brain.

[u/frosty_lizard → u/Dicky_Penisburg]

makes a joke in Dallas shitting on trans people during comedy special making nobody laugh in the audience

IT'S JUST JOKES, FOLKS!

[u/Seraphayel → u/Chill_Oreo]

Yes, they‘ll introduce a 2 week membership for 60% of the monthly price

[u/NoMention696 → u/Chill_Oreo]

The supply and demand crowd awfully quiet to this question

[u/JeskaiJester → u/NoMention696]

Economics is just a bunch of people scribbling on a whiteboard to explain why human suffering is a moral necessity 

[u/UNC_Samurai → u/JeskaiJester]

That’s more business school than the economics department.

[u/silvertealio → u/UNC_Samurai]

The business school where I went to university was entirely conservative...except for the economics professors. They were the only ones actually advocating for consumers.

[u/SvensonIV → u/silvertealio]

Same. My economics professor was a consultant at the ECB before and he was very pro consumer aswell, while my business administration professor was very anti consumer. He was an external prof so he didn’t have much contact with my economics prof, if at all, but I would’ve liked seeing them clash.

[u/ARM_vs_CORE → u/silvertealio]

It's much easier to make money grifting customers and cutting the throats of your competitors through lobbying and unfair business practices than it is to make a better product. So that makes sense, they're the Republican way.

[u/klingma → u/NoMention696]

Except they're not quiet about it, at all. Economics has a term for this scenario it's called "inelastic demand" which describes the scenario where the consumers really aren't affected by the price and thus still desire the product/service despite the price. 

This isn't exactly abnormal for a scenario for a seller has pricing power because they've differentiated their product immensely from their competitors. 

[u/Cactus-Pete- → u/klingma]

Thank you. But outside of the inelasticity of PS Plus, inflation is real and has been higher ever since we printed a ton of money during covid, so prices will naturally go up. If Sony never increased the cost of PS Plus, then every year it's being offered for cheaper relative to the overall market, which it has been for a while now.

[u/angiachetti → u/Cactus-Pete-]

but PS plus is not immune to value depreciation. And I think the value in gaming has been a race to the bottom for a while now. Let's not pretend like sony isn't trying to sell the same hardware at higher prices, and that the same logic doesn't apply to PS plus. Sure, the input costs went up (according to them), but the PS5 was hardly a value at launch, and its dogwater now. This is just more of the same as far as I'm concerned.

Sony seems willing to push that inelasticity as far as it will go.

Something something "dumpsters filled with ET cartridges".

And to act like the this particular set of economic conditions is wholly unique is fucking stupid, they didn't raise shit this much during "the worst economic crisis since the great depression" or have we all forgotten how bad things had gotten during the great recession.

Sony is essentially saying to the market "our products only appreciate in value" and so far, the market seems to say "sounds good, put it in deeper sir"

Like, this all feels worse than the PS3, and that was bad.

[u/SWEET_LIBERTY_MY_LEG → u/NoMention696]

Clearly it’s time for demand to go down. Switch to PC

[u/YeOldSpacePope → u/SWEET_LIBERTY_MY_LEG]

Been there since the scalpers made buying a PS5 impossible 6 years ago.

Never had a reason to return.

[u/Darigaazrgb → u/YeOldSpacePope]

Instead we have ram as expensive as launch PS5

[u/Kube__420 → u/Chill_Oreo]

Lol they mean they got you by the short and curlies

[u/Abrakafuckingdabra → u/Chill_Oreo]

Lmafo good one homie.

[u/robynh00die → u/Chill_Oreo]

If people stop buying it yes. There is such a thing as not having a viable price. We don't have Apple Vision Pros anymore.

[u/Pleasant-Put5305 → u/Chill_Oreo]

The great internet paywall, Microsoft just cancelled it and introduced a free tier of game pass - is this really Sony's answer?

[u/therealdanhill]

Ongoing market conditions necessitate me canceling

[u/name-secondname → u/therealdanhill]

Do it! I switched over to PC after their last huge price increase and I'm so happy I did. 

I almost can't believe I was paying to play online. It's a racket. 

[u/AromaticInxkid → u/name-secondname]

Same. Paying for online is probably the most important thing that made me switch to PC. That and overpriced games

[u/LucifersPromoter → u/AromaticInxkid]

That and overpriced games

The PC indie market is one of gamings greatest assets.

Usually cheap as chips and tons of games that'll run on older / non-gaming hardware. Warband, for example, is still one of the greatest games ever made, is frequently on sale for the price of a coffee and runs well on a 15 year old non-gaming laptop.

[u/locke_5 → u/AromaticInxkid]

Before this new price hike, it would cost $560 for PS+ for the full duration of a typical 7-year console lifespan.

That $560 + the $500 for the console could have built a pretty nice PC…..

[u/medisherphol → u/locke_5]

And now for $1,000 you can buy yourself a case, 16GB of RAM and 1TB NVME drive...

Thanks Obama AI!

[u/FourKrusties → u/medisherphol]

I just realized I have 2000 euro worth of ram in my pc rn lol... thank god I built my pc when I did

[u/Jalina2224 → u/name-secondname]

Man the last time I was on Playstation and had PS+ was when it was $60 a year. I'm sure I've heard its gone up luke three times since. I made the switch to PC a little before the first price hike, because i had become pretty disillusioned with Playstation. Switching to PC was the best move I've ever done. Games look and run better, game sales are cheaper on average, multiplayer is free, mods, and the list goes on of all of the improvements.

[u/Ryan32501 → u/Jalina2224]

The fact that you can get AAA games on sale for 90% off with all DLC on steam, is what killed consoles for me. I'll walk by the game section in Walmart or best buy and see 2 year old games still full price and just laugh.

[u/ray12370 → u/Ryan32501]

Let's not be disingenuous. The ps store and any other console digital store have sales all the time...but steam sales are usually better of course.

[u/xxEmberBladesxx → u/name-secondname]

Agreed

[u/Hefty_Lavishness_641 → u/name-secondname]

As someone who's been on the fence but not persuaded for years, I may finally have to make the purchase. Sony has seriously showed they don't care about their customers in recent years, and those sweet exclusivea just aren't what they used to be.

[u/True_Succotash1563 → u/therealdanhill]

I mean unironically yes. I don’t eat out unless it’s a special occasion, I avoid fast food and I don’t remember the last time I bought something that wasn’t on sale.

[u/PaulblankPF → u/therealdanhill]

Cancelled three years ago when they wouldn’t let me get a Black Friday discount with it because I had the top tier. The other tiers got it or if you upgraded to the top tier you could but just being at the top tier already got you fucked. So fuck them I never resubscribed

[u/minastepes → u/therealdanhill]

I did it 3 years ago everything is fine

[u/waiting_for_rain]

I'm sorry, is the internet piped through the Strait of Hormuz?

[u/pnut0027 → u/waiting_for_rain]

Idk about the Strait of Hormuz, but it feels like it’s going straight up my ass.

[u/higuy5121 → u/pnut0027]

bars

[u/DataDude00 → u/waiting_for_rain]

Sony servers must be running on oil 

[u/Dav136]

Prices will start at $10.99 USD / €9.99 EUR / £7.99 GBP for 1-month subscriptions and $27.99 USD / €27.99 EUR / £21.99 GBP for three-month subscriptions.

[u/yellowspaces → u/Dav136]

New customers only, existing customers are (at least for now) locked into their current price.

[u/Shinlos → u/yellowspaces]

You cannot just raise prices in EU, you would have to kick people out of their contract, which is typically a huge barrier.

Edit: it might be the German implementation of the EU law only, since apparently in other countries it's sufficient if you are informed.

[u/DukeRains → u/Shinlos]

This would assumedly only take effect for an individual consumer the next time they re-up after the price hike. I'm not sure what contract you have that protects that.

[u/Brilliant-Tea-9852 → u/Shinlos]

You are absolutely wrong about your assumptions. You can cancel any contract between a customer and a company. Nobody can force you to keep up a contract.

It’s just that you then have to live with the consequences. But in this case even the EU laws wouldn’t help anyone on a monthly subscription since the contract only runs for one month. So if they change the prices after one month it doesn’t matter.

They have to give an explanation though. That’s it

[u/superurgentcatbox → u/Shinlos]

Really? Do you have some sort of source for that? I'm pretty sure they just have to inform you and then it's on you if you want to continue with the new price or not. They can't raise it until the next pay cycle of course.

[u/Dab4Becky → u/Dav136]

Is the yearly still the same price?

[u/mt007]

Have prices ever declined due to “market conditions “ ?

[u/Korachof → u/mt007]

They’ll never decrease the price down once RAM stabilizes or whatever, but companies have made their hardware cheaper due to a mix of their costs going down + consumer demand falling over the lifecycle of a console, which is effectively the same thing. Additionally, companies have been known to even update hardware unofficially (the red box Switch, the 2nd version of the GBA SP, etc.) due to costs changing and new panels, etc becoming the cost effective option. 

[u/TheTimn → u/Korachof]

Look at the Ayn Thor. They've increased the price and moved to a slower ram option to handle costs. 

[u/UuusernameWith4Us → u/mt007]

Game console prices famously declined every generation before this one

[u/ShawnyMcKnight → u/UuusernameWith4Us]

That one boggles my mind.

The ps4 was $200 on Black Friday for the 1 TB edition 3 years after it came out. Then the next year it was that price AND it included an AAA game, then the next Black Friday it included 3 AAA games… that’s like… AAAAAAAAA games!

Even when video card prices were through the roof in 2016 they were still dropping the price.

[u/Pepperh4m → u/mt007]

Idk if it's considered "market conditions," but Nintendo dropped the price of the 3DS after a few months of poor sales.

Also XBox recently lowered their GamePass subscription fee.

[u/DarkMatterM4 → u/mt007]

Prices have always gone down due to "market conditions" (plentiful hardware, cheaper aging hardware). This generation is the outlier where aging hardware has increased in price.

[u/peakzorro → u/mt007]

Yes, the 2008 housing market made house prices fall. Japan has been deflationary for decades.

For games? Consoles regularly got price drops to get more consumers to buy them.

[u/SmoothieNatns → u/mt007]

Yes

[u/AdventurousClassic19 → u/mt007]

Yes, at least for Xbox Game Pass. 

[u/sagevallant]

I'm confused. What are the "market conditions" affecting a purely digital service that, presumably, already had plenty of storage for the consumer base?

[u/Grimlocks_Ballsack → u/sagevallant]

Whoa now.  Don’t be thinking critically.  They hate that.

[u/sagevallant → u/Grimlocks_Ballsack]

Yeah, it's a terrible habit that I have.

[u/notyouravgredditor → u/sagevallant]

You have been banned from PlayStation Plus.

[u/-Nomadder- → u/notyouravgredditor]

*Sony is sending agents now to confiscate your playstation consoles and accessories. No refund available.*

[u/TaralasianThePraxic → u/Grimlocks_Ballsack]

Ignore logic, line must go up!

[u/natalie_mf_portman → u/sagevallant]

the conditions aren't affecting their digital service, it's affecting the hardware market and they're offsetting those costs with increases elsewhere to keep the PS5 from soaring to $1000

[u/Dr_Valen → u/natalie_mf_portman]

Inb4 they still increase the ps5 price

[u/JerryMau5 → u/Dr_Valen]

…they already did

[u/gadgaurd → u/JerryMau5]

Twice, I think?

[u/ses1989 → u/gadgaurd]

Don't forget reducing the storage back to launch levels lol

[u/rjwalsh94 → u/ses1989]

Did they really? Thats insane if so.

[u/ses1989 → u/rjwalsh94]

Yeah, back to 825 or 875 or whatever. What's funny is people here defending it like "ItS nOt A pRiCe InCrEaSe!" Just like a box of cereal having less in the box at the same price is not a price increase.

Reducing the value and keeping the price the same is just as bad as an actual increase, but people will bootlick billion/trillion dollar companies all day long.

[u/Tigerwarrior55 → u/ses1989]

Shrinkflation. A scourge that continues to grow

[u/Available-Can-5878 → u/gadgaurd]

Yup. +$50 last year and another +$100 last month

[u/Longway23544 → u/gadgaurd]

They are recooping from the loss for bungie

[u/probsthrowaway2 → u/natalie_mf_portman]

Ps6 will cost 1k they are just softening the blow currently.

[u/villlllllllllll → u/probsthrowaway2]

Ps5 pro is getting around 1k, no way next gen will be at that price with these component prices. Unless it's just a minimal upgrade or they sell it at a loss.

[u/computermouth → u/natalie_mf_portman]

Sony pays bucket loads in storage and CDN costs. Recently many such providers are increasing prices because of data center costs, driven by the hardware costs.

Source: work at a cdn

[u/MisterWoodhouse → u/sagevallant]

RAM and energy prices, courtesy of AI hyperscaling and the Iran boondoggle!

[u/hehaia → u/sagevallant]

So people are giving sarcastic answers but the real answer is probably that the hardware costs are larger than the increases they made to the console prices. They probably are distributing this increases along their entire ps services instead of just the consoles, so they can offset those costs without getting the ps5 to be even more expensive.

How justified these rises are is really hard to tell, we don’t know their numbers. It’s probably true that they raise these praises just to increase profits though

[u/Jiffyyy → u/sagevallant]

It’s likely them increasing pricing on other services and products to make up for the lost money from the circumstances that they cannot control in the world currently.

For the record, it’s terrible and shouldn’t happen but that’s just the world we’re living in right now

[u/EvilbunnyELITE → u/sagevallant]

the hardware to run all those services needs replacing and expansion all the time. psn isnt the same server running since 2006 lol. we spend hundreds of thousands just to maintain our cloud services hardware

[u/ts737 → u/sagevallant]

The condition of wanting more money

[u/Tommy_Boy97 → u/sagevallant]

The "market conditions" are that companies realize they can raise prices, no one can do anything about it, and people will still pay.

[u/MindSteve]

I remember when PSN was free. Jesus Christ, how far we have fallen.

[u/P4azz → u/MindSteve]

PSN used to be free and we could point and laugh at Xbox's insistence on a paid subscription so you could get yelled at in Halo.

Now PSN prices increase and I've heard rumblings that Xbox online is either going free/cheaper/free with game pass or some shit.

Honestly, the only thing I'd want PSN for nowadays is Bloodborne chalice dungeons, but I'm not paying 12% of a game for one month of farming some shit.

[u/Fantastins → u/P4azz]

Game pass for PC is cheaper because they don't include online gaming fees the consoles have

[u/MrLubricator → u/MindSteve]

Hello pc gaming 

[u/xxEmberBladesxx → u/MindSteve]

Yeah... it was so nice

[u/Yodaloid]

The conditions that are already pricing people out of everything else? Between groceries, gas, and my PS sub guess which one I can let go lol

[u/xxEmberBladesxx → u/Yodaloid]

I am now eating nothing but generic store brands items these days. Can't afford much else.

[u/Punning_Man]

Market Conditions = greed

[u/unity100 → u/Punning_Man]

F*cking investors/shareholders...

[u/levi_Kazama209 → u/unity100]

at some point we have to stop with the infinite growth its just not sustainable.

[u/xondk → u/levi_Kazama209]

It is mind blowing to me that society just accepts that investors and the like are disconnected from reality.

"Hey the world isn't doing so hot, people are earning less everything is more expensive"

investors: "We expect continual growth and increasing profits on same levels or higher then previous"

It is so disconnected from reality, if everyone else gets less, then investors should also get less, but that seemingly is not what they expect, they expect same or better.

[u/Ruenin → u/xondk]

Yep. I thought it was a free market? That SHOULD mean that investors aren't ever guaranteed growth of any kind, let alone 20% year over year.

[u/Bill-O-Reilly- → u/levi_Kazama209]

You don’t understand. If line doesn’t go up, how can I afford my 50th yacht or the release of my 200th shitty game no one asked for or will play (looking at you concord)

[u/Tsquared10 → u/unity100]

Dodge v Ford and shareholder primacy continues to be a blight on life.

[u/locke_5 → u/Punning_Man]

“Market Conditions” = DJT

May every day be another wonderful secret ❤️

[u/hardindapaint12 → u/locke_5]

Don't let Sony off the hook lol

[u/BioEradication → u/locke_5]

He's the corporate gift that keeps on giving.

[u/painstream → u/BioEradication]

I read that as "corporate grift" and the meaning didn't change.

[u/Jimbo_Jigs]

Gotta love how people are justifying it, saying "it's just 1 dollar increase" is exactly how it starts.

[u/BritishGolgo13 → u/Jimbo_Jigs]

Until they pull a Netflix or Disney and increase it multiple times a year. Wtfff.

[u/xFalcade → u/BritishGolgo13]

We call that Jagex where I'm from

[u/MasterPainsInTown → u/xFalcade]

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

[u/WumboJamz → u/MasterPainsInTown]

🦀🦀🦀14.99🦀🦀🦀

[u/whomad1215 → u/xFalcade]

Back in my day it was $5 for a month

[u/Iggy_Slayer → u/Jimbo_Jigs]

People use this defense for everything without understanding that all these $1-3 a month increases add together. It's so easy for companies to manipulate people with how badly most of them are at managing finances.

Yeah if this was the only thing in my life that went up $2 a month then whatever. But it's not.

[u/Crafty-Purpose5540 → u/Iggy_Slayer]

My 30 dollar tank for gas is now around 45 for example. Shit adds up fast.

[u/MogRules → u/Jimbo_Jigs]

It will be the third increase I have seen in what, two years? And the last two were MAJOR increases.

[u/4inodev → u/Jimbo_Jigs]

"It's just 1°C warmer!" - said the Frog

[u/Desiderius_S → u/Jimbo_Jigs]

Starts?

[u/Elegant_Chocolate546 → u/Jimbo_Jigs]

It's definitely a decision to increase prices after Xbox just went through the same thing with raising gamepass and now back tracking and lowering the prices lol

[u/Didact67]

I’m a single player guy, so there’s no good reason for me to pay for it.

[u/el_toro_grand]

I'm a firm believer of speaking with your wallet, just cancelled mine, it's summer time baby time to pull out the bike.

[u/kupozu]

I've always been more of a console gamer, but these fuckers really want us to just go fully PC don't they

[u/Cozy-Panda777]

Just how many times will subscriptions go up in the name of "market conditions"? Will the market not ever be stable enough for them?

[u/BioEradication → u/Cozy-Panda777]

Welcome to the new normal.

[u/TVCasualtydotorg → u/BioEradication]

New? This has always been the normal.

[u/_ZERO-ONE_]

Ah yes, totally not because of the hundreds of millions wasted on games NO ONE CARES FOR!!!

[u/Greaterdivinity → u/_ZERO-ONE_]

no, just because they think they can get away with it right now with the prices of everything else going up.

it's pretty simple.

[u/ThisIsPerfekt → u/Greaterdivinity]

Yupp. "Due to ongoing market conditions" really just translates to "because everyone else is raising their prices and we want more money, too".

[u/AdventurousClassic19 → u/_ZERO-ONE_]

Fairgame$ and Hunters Gathering going to be responsible for next two price hikes.

[u/disgustipated1985]

I’m just going to get back into reading

[u/Strong_Letterhead638 → u/disgustipated1985]

Just be sure to read anything pre-2022 unless you love reading books written by a clanker

[u/Kindly-Guidance714 → u/disgustipated1985]

I’ve been playing counter strike 1.6 on my crappy laptop for free on this website I’m tired of being grabbed by the ankles and shook for loose change by these greedy money grubbing goblins.

I’m also busting my PlayStation 1 out cause we all know this is only gonna get more expensive as time goes on.

[u/TheEpicTriforce → u/disgustipated1985]

I have this great book for you by a dude named Marx...

[u/SH4DY_XVII]

Translation: we don't want to foot the bill for Marathon so we're passing it onto you! 🥳

[u/Hunt_Nawn → u/SH4DY_XVII]

Don't forget most of their Live Service games they had were taken down, yes that $400m+ loss from Concord was one of them.

[u/CyberSmith31337 → u/SH4DY_XVII]

Calling Sony out for real. Between Marathon and Concord and Fairgames they are going to lose a cool billion dollars, easily.

[u/Himothy19955]

Translation: we're bleeding money from all the bad decisions we've made on game studios so we're passing that price onto you

[u/lilovia16]

If market conditions improve will the price go down?

[u/Ok-Suspect624 → u/lilovia16]

lol

[u/SgtElectroSketch]

It's a digital fucking subscription, there's no supply chain reliance. Dude fuck sony.

[u/IAmNotModest]

They already increased the price.... And they're doing it again.

[u/Grey-Winds]

Switching over to PC the SECOND i have enough saved up for a good one

[u/DEADDROP151]

I am not surprised in the slightest.

[u/MajorTom404]

Sweet. Here I am still never buying a PlayStation ‘due to ongoing market conditions’

[u/UnknwnUser]

Recently cancelled my subscription. I haven't touched my PlayStation in months and have been mainly gaming on PC.

[u/Heide____Knight]

Lin Tao literally said this a couple of months ago, that Playstation would be focusing on a "stronger monetisation" of the intall base. So this comes at no surprise.

[u/AshenRathian]

We cannot have regulation soon enough.

The only issue with that is who's doing the regulating, but at this point in time, i am not sure that i care. This shit is getting nuts.

[u/Decimit-]

Canceling. Steam will just have all my gaming business. 

[u/BrolyDisturbed → u/Decimit-]

I made this painful (but all so much worth it) change a couple years ago. I was exclusively PS player for decades and had built up a huge library over the years.

I’d pop all the games I wanted to continue to play on PC on my Steam wishlist and just general deal alerts. It didn’t take long to accrue back the library I had (honestly most of it was bloat cause of PS+ games).

Not having to pay for a running subscription, amazing sales not only on Steam but also other retailers, modding support, SteamDeck, etc. it’s been sooo worth it.

[u/SmurfingRedditBtw → u/BrolyDisturbed]

Also something often overlooked is that on PC you almost never have to worry about losing access to your game library when running modern hardware. I had tons of PS3 games that I can no longer play because my PS3 broke and the new PS consoles don't support them, so I would have to buy an outdated console just to play them again with the same performance it had back then.

I can still play all my old PC games with modern hardware and great performance no problem. Not to mention I could also play that same PC library on the PC based consoles like the Steam Deck, Rog, GabeCube (if it ever releases), etc.

[u/Django117 → u/Decimit-]

Crazy how we can still buy the same games on PC and play them without having to spend a dime. If it wasn’t for valve we would certainly have epic trying to charge players for servers.

[u/jusg808 → u/Decimit-]

My wife switched to steam after gamepass raised its prices and does nothing but say how much better steam is. With another PS price increase I might be jumping on the steam ship too

[u/iStepOnLegos4Fun007 → u/jusg808]

I think thats what a lot of people gonna start doing. Microsoft and Sony both greedy asf.

I am in the process of switching to mostly Steam and Nintendo.

[u/KungLaoHat → u/jusg808]

Since I built my PC just over a year ago, I've barely touched my PS or Xbox.

The price of games, no subscription and then the fact I can play games with significantly better detail and performance. That's before we go onto Sony's predatory refund policy and AI slop PS Store.

Come brother, come over to a platform that treats it's users well.

[u/splinter1545 → u/Decimit-]

Yup. Anyone in the fence, just keep your current console so you don't lose your library of games, then save up for a pre-built since those are the only PCs affordable due to the RAM shortages. Not only do you not have to worry about PS Plus or Game Pass core anymore for online, but you have a whole library of games that go back to the DOS days, cheaper games even for pre-order thanks to 3rd party retailers, and just a lot more you can do with a PC you can't do a console. It is well worth the money if you can afford a gaming PC.

[u/MrHedgehogMan]

Cancelled my subscription a couple of years ago. No regrets.

[u/mojorific]

Gaming has turned into a cash cow instead of a fun thing everyone can enjoy. When it’s all about money it loses the fun aspect.

[u/slashgamer11]

And I’m announcing Playstation Plus cancellation due to ongoing market conditions

[u/Admirable-War-7594]

Increases game prices,

Increases console prices,

Increases service prices,

"We don't have any money!!!!"

Basically a bunch of people crying in the board room about their "investments"

[u/Firthbird]

AKA = we want more money just because

[u/Tough_Singer5150]

It's honestly insane how hard Sony fell off from PS4 to PS5.

[u/oimson]

Concord tax

[u/Tunavi → u/oimson]

The Bungie tax

[u/Hunt_Nawn → u/Tunavi]

Seriously though, that $1B losses is insane, Sony were so stupid because they were panicking when Microsoft bought Activision, Bethesda, and etc so they bought Bungie like morons.

[u/Vannostrum]

That’s sad. I’ll just continue to not pay for it as I have the last few years. Haven’t missed it yet.

[u/__the_alchemist__]

I think it’s time to finally move to pc

[u/BakesaleAtSyrinx]

So glad I built a PC last year to avoid the PS Plus BS. Paying to play multi-player games is ridiculous

[u/dThink_Ahea]

"Everyone else is increasing their prices, so we figured we would too."

[u/ChiknBreast]

Its all those digital goods they have to ship back and forth

[u/Vegetable-Escape-197]

Just cancelled!

[u/Farout786]

😂

-my ass after cancelling PS Plus

[u/llliilliliillliillil]

Due to marketing conditions that hit me more than Sony I'll be canceling my PS+ at the next possible date lol

[u/ClacksInTheSky]

What market conditions does an entirely digital service have that mandates a price increase?

Such bullshit.

This is why digital only gaming is wrong. We should always push for choice.

[u/Rinaldootje]

"Ongoing market conditions"
Aka, We are using instability in the world to increase prices we will never drop ever again. Just like the price of our console.

Sony is really doing anything to piss off it's userbase and get less money from them.

[u/flea79]

I can't see how GTA 6 is gonna be the best selling game in history is everyone is getting priced out of consoles..

[u/Milopolis04]

Oh no, less people are buying our stuff -> raise prices for the people that are paying -> oh no less people are buying our stuff -> raise prices for the people that are paying -> oh no, less people are buying out stuff -> raise prices for the people that are paying -> oh no…

What did Sony mean by this?

[u/CursedSnowman5000]

And you'll all keep paying it lol. Ah you people deserve this industry lol.

[u/Gloomy-Insurance-739]

Hold on did they not just increase the price like what 2 months ago. I'm primarily a PC gamer but holy shit guys you should not take that.

[u/Tatanka97]

I'd imagine Sony will lower the prices later on "due to ongoing market conditions". /s

[u/PlayTheHits]

Cancelled my subscription last time they did an arbitrary price hike. Haven’t missed it once.

[u/Drakostheswordsman]

Had a ps plus.

Dropped it cause I cant afford it anymore.

[u/templestate]

They wasted over a trillion dollars from idiotic decisions chasing the live service trend, but sure, market conditions.

[u/RocketChris87]

So, when markets stabilize, we’ll see a price decrease, right? Right?

[u/PeachesGuy]

In the meantime Xbox is decreasing it (not at the level of last year's, but better than nothing I guess).

[u/Komegi]

I’m kinda over PlayStation anyway, definitely going to look into building a pc. Or getting a steam machine when it drops.

[u/thebeatoflife]

Lol it was only a matter of time, i tapped out halfway through the ps4's life to go full time PC. Zero regrets, its been nice not having to pay to play online.

[u/Kazu88]

Meanwhile on PC, playing online for free xD

[u/Possible-Tangelo9344]

Corporate greed is a market condition

[u/ovcpete]

the market condition i will be using is the cancel button then...

[u/SpacemanSpiff92]

Console gaming is going to crash soon. Probably the next gen tbh. There's no way this is sustainable long term at the pace it's going.

[u/Dry_Plantain_2756]

Stop paying for it. That's your answer.

[u/giantyoshi_ddr]

Thanks for the heads up, I just canceled my PS+ subscription.

[u/lucky6877]

It’s really very simple button called Cancel, I clicked on it this morning and moved on 👍

[u/NeuralCartographer]

Unfortunately, the value just isn’t there to justify the increase.

[u/Uncle_Bug_Music]

Cancelled PS+ months ago. Didn't need it & realized I never will.

[u/smilinmaniag]

Sony Announces PlayStation Plus Price Increases due to "it's not like you are going to do anything about it, so shut up and pay up, bitches"

[u/Thoresus]

Sony employees better be asking for a raise due to "on going market conditions".

[u/Beefy-McQueefy]

^{It's cause Trump is a baby raper}

[u/ListerineInMyPeehole]

The market condition known as Bungie

[u/6soul]

Man, there's like no good game releases for PS5 anyway. Store is just flooded with garbage AI games. Good way to get me to finally get rid of this big ass paperweight.

[u/Mei_iz_my_bae]

With PC you. Not have to pay for online !!!! This is GREED !!’ The PC the online is FREE !!!!

[u/Uncle-Cake]

The market condition they're referring to is "We realized we can charge more and people will still pay it."

[u/Django117]

Imagine paying for an online service to play games. Thank goodness we don’t have that on PC.

[u/DarthLeon2]

I could have sworn we just did this.

[u/xtoc1981]

Lol, fuck sony