PS Plus Value Called into Question as Xbox Slashes Game Pass Price

They're both honestly wildly good values, if you're into the games they offer. Personally, I find that Sony's service rotates games a little more often than I'd like.

This is why Playstation needs competition. Without it they would get away with heavily overpricing everything.

well it was a ridiculous increase in the first place, and now ppl are losing a product which may be worth around 3months sub price...

Gotta give props to Microsoft, they're doing it the right way by dropping the prices after changing some of what it offers.

So CoD was singlehandedly holding the price at ransom 🤦‍♂️. My 1 month PS Plus expired and couldn't be bothered renewing, multiplayer felt boring all of a sudden, perhaps I'd find it interesting again if online is free. I don't need those free monthly games taking up all the HD space anyway.

My (physical) backlog is so great that I won't need to renew my subs in June. The games this year have been great but Sony's shoddy business practices means I won't invest 90 sheets in 'em.

I believe it's called desperation.

Increase the price of Extra and Premium. Just so much value.

It doesn’t matter what the price is, I just don’t believe that the future of gaming is streaming, regardless of the amount of analysts trying to convince me otherwise.

Console gaming is something you have to focus on, to put your whole attention in. All the big streaming services like Netflix and Spotify provide very passive entertainment that you’re expected to flick through then dismiss.

How long until Gamepass Day 1 releases are on "case by case basis". PS+ gets a lot of criticism, not undeservedly in some cases, but they absolutely nailed the fact that day 1 subscription releases were terrible for the long term health of the platform.

I probably don't need PSPlus Premium. I mostly play games that I have purchased. It was an absolute WONDER when I first switched teams to PlayStation after Christmas, though. I suddenly had a ton of games to play on a platform that I had ignored for 20 years. Now, the service is not as useful to me, but there's no way I'm going cut myself off from the possibility of streaming something directly to my Portal that I don't have installed. I just like the feeling that I can do that if I want to. It's great for not having to install large free gacha games too!

@MamaSymphonia agreed, I'm a ps premium user and I'm into a lot of games so the value is there for me. But if Sony wants to compete, they may need to slash the prices at some point (I'm not expecting to come any time soon tho).

so it's back to its intended price due to falling subscriber numbers as people flee xbox... not really a price drop then regardless of how microsoft wants to spin it. the lower game pass price tag does make ps plus even worse in terms of its value, though, so sony should do the same.

This is some last chance for survival and still more expensive and without their beloved CoD

@EK42
But Sony didn’t reduce its pricing. Xbox did. So maybe it’s good for Xbox owners that Sony’s around so Xbox stays competitive?

I would just like to personally thank you for using both £££ and & $$$ in the article.

Quite a rare thing these days

thanks for the xbox news

So they finally realised how much money they lost out on by putting CoD on game pass.

Nice, this is competition working and the new Xbox CEO making a strong move! Hope it gives Sony food for thought before they contemplate the next price increase.

For real I think I'd pay for a $20 a year for Online Play or Free (if Free2Plays like Apex, Fortnite can do it why not PS) MINUS all those sometimes ridiculous Monthly Games.

The price drop from the most expensive tier of Game Pass here in Brazil is now the same value as the most expensive tier of PS Plus here. Just giving some additional info, in case anyone thinks that PS Plus is cheaper than Game Pass everywhere in the world, because it definitely isn't (R$ 76,90).

@lacerz Yes, it definitely would be.
We can't have a future where there's only one platform holder. Xbox and PlayStation both need to remain healthy competitors

Is GP still monthly only though? and not discounting for a yearly price?
Because at face value GP is arguably better as a monthly price with day one games. But I've always done my PS extra yearly, which works out loads cheaper and better value (same with premium). I've just renewed for £85 for the year with a online gift card.
Good to see some competition again.

Do people buy Gamepass on a month by month basis? I feel like PS+ E, E, P are more of an annual price thing than monthly but I could be wrong. GP maybe got too expensive for a discounted annual offer?

Guess I can go do my own research, BRB.

Edit: Looks like all 4 versions of GP are monthly only, so no savings for an annual plan. Guess the price isn't right.

17 Dollars a month most streaming service are around there now prices are not going down get that out your mind in till the global economy collapse nothing going down in price

Uk gamers getting ripped off as usual

Next step is to provide another GamePass tier only for Xbox 1st party titles without that same COD for another 25%/33% off.

@GamingGod i think your math isn"t great. Exactly how UK is getting ripped off?
Germany prices are 20,99€ and 12,99€.
If you convert UK prices to € it would be around 19,55€ and 12,63€.

We had a few years of people moaning about ps+ compared to gamepass. Sony stuck to their sustainable business model refusing to go down the same route as gamepass. Insisting it wasn't financially sustainable and ps+ now sits in a nice place whereas gamepass is just a mess of a service right now trying to be everything to everyone, not succeeding, not growing and costing them dearly.

Going back to comparing ps+ to gamepass now that there has been a bit of a price drop in an effort to rectify the mess theyve made of gamepass is beyond moronic.

Leave the comparisons alone, they're different things. ps+ is in a very nice spot, offers a fantastic service at a good price, it doesnt need any drastic changes.

Game Pass was overpriced at $20 a month. This price drop is still too much for to even consider it. I don't play COD, so that means nothing to me. Day 1 first party games included are nice, but if it's a game, I really wanna play. I'd much rather own it.

Game Pass was cool for indie games that I most likely would have never played. But nowadays I just add them to my steam wishlist and buy them when they go on sale and play them on my Steam Deck OLED.

I haven't turned my Series X on in almost a year. I own a bunch of games for Xbox, so my Series X isn't going anywhere. I still prefer Playstation's premium service at $160 a year with the included monthly free games.

$20 a month is still too much. $20 a year is too much, even for Nintendo.

Should be free to play online and not held prisoner.

@Haruki_NLI then you need to play games on something else. You're not a prisoner lol.

I do feel Premium is a bit too much, certainly for me as it's main selling point was meant to be their retro offerings but they have been too few and far between

From my point of view PC Gamepass dropping down to the same price as Premium while retaining all day one games as it currently is makes it the best value of them all. Saying that I currently sub to PS Plus premium so I won't really consider another Gamepass sub until that expires next year as I don't really want more than one at a time.

I hope Xbox sticks with this mentality and it produces more tangible changes. Ultimately, I’d like to see 1st party content be unwound from Gamepass and the industry to get back to the age old, tried and true method of ‘make game, sell game’. Subscription services should never be the primary method of dispensing content, they should only ever be additive. Complimentary. Supplementary. Not the focus.

I'm on the extra tier. For me personally it's really good value. There's always something I would buy in a sale and more often than not they appear in my sub so its a no brainer for me. I can see why people don't like the subs but it's horses for courses. Don't like them then don't sub.

Still way more than twice as much as I pay for a yearly Premium so 🤷‍♂️

Yeah, Xbox didn't lower the price because they just decided to love their community, lol. They lowered the price because no one was going to pay that when most of their Day 1 first party games are mid to begin with. This is a move of defeat. I feel like PS doesn't have a ton of room to increase anymore themselves. It's not that just PS or Xbox went up, it's that EVERY streaming service is on the rise. So people are going to start deciding what they plan to keep because the price increases add up if you're using multiple services at a time.

All I can say is Sony better not raise the price of Plus one cent with GP being at that price.

As they say in my language: ze weten van geen hout pijlen te maken.

@Oram77 I would very much like to see Sony being as “desperate” as Microsoft, it’s called being competitive which MS forgot about the last decade or so, even if you’re only a PlayStation user it benefits us all to have more competition.

In all reality the big CoD players are player that and not much else. Its literally cheaper to buy CoD outright. Also leaves room for Fifa or 2K at full price as well. There have been enough studies to show that 10 games basically solidify the entire industries existence. CoD should have never been added to the sub to begin with

@TheArt

Add those games to your library.

MS was stupid to allow Call of Duty on there in the first place

Not having COD day 1 is a very fair tradeoff for sure. I highly doubt subscribers will be too bothered by COD's absence when the price will be cut by almost a third of its previous price.

I don't think it's substantial enough for Sony to change anything about their offering though.

@rjejr poorly conducted research

@ShadowRJ Streaming will be the norm in gaming but not for many, many years.

I would guess that 95% of Game Pass members download there games rather than stream them. There's a huge difference.

ITT - people not realising Microsoft are desperate, and Xbox is a dead format. This isn't competition for Sony.

Ps plus extra and premium is absolutly awful the crap games they keep adding each month glad it has competition gamepass is a million times better saying that essential is pretty great though