Update: This popular deal is still available with new discount code
GamePilot via Eneba has
12-Month PlayStation Plus Essential Membership (Digital Code) on sale for $46.74 + $3.12 Service Fee (
automatically added) - Extra
10% Off w/ PayPal Checkout w/ discount code
PLUSESSENTIAL (
apply in cart) =
~$45.17.
Thanks to community member
gabrielh for finding this deal
Note, you must use PayPal checkout as your payment of method before applying the listed discount code.
Depending on your PlayStation account, you
may purchase more to stack to your account.
For members that were currently on the '
PlayStation Plus Membership' and are now under the '
PlayStation Plus Essential Membership', Sony is allowing the opportunity to upgrade for a flat-rate fee listed below. This will convert all your existing years you have on your account to the new membership after the fee.
Upgrade Your Plan - via your PlayStation 4/5 (
console/account)
- PlayStation Plus Extra Membership - $100 Flat-Rate Fee
- PlayStation Plus Premium Membership - $149.99 Flat-Rate Fee
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You had PS Plus that was converted to PS Plus "Essential" under the new PS Plus Subscription 3 Tiers system. You can add 12 months of PS Plus Essential for $45 from the link above (instead of $59).
Now Sony is letting you upgrade your PS Plus "Essential" subscription to "Extra" or "Premium" tier for a $100/$150 flat fee (which otherwise would cost you $40/$60 extra a year) no matter how many years of "Essential" subscription you have left . So stack as many years of PS Plus "Essential" as you can and the cheaper it will be to get the "Extra" or "Premium" Tiers (the break even point is at around 2 years, anything after that makes the tier upgrade cheaper and cheaper)
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If I upgrade to premium or extra, the next payment is 3/2/2025.
They're taking a year off (so -$59.99) and charging for the upgrade.
$100 for essentials upgrade and $149.99 for the premium upgrade.
I have 971 days left. The actual upgrade cost to 1335 days:
+ Listed Upgrade Fee
+ Loss of 1 Year at Essential rate
+ Addition of 1 Year at new Plan Rate (to adjust for year removal)
(Upgrade_Fee + Essential_Year_Deduction_Value + Plan_Year_Addition)
Essential to Premium: 149.99 + 59.99 + 119.99 == 329.98
Essential to Extra : 100.00 + 59.99 + 99.99 == 259.98
Essential (Do nothing): 0
Value of 1335 Days
Essential: 1335 / 365 * 59.99 == 219.42
Extra: 1335 / 365 * 99.99 == 365.72
Premium: 1335 / 365 * 149.99 == 548.59
What it should cost to upgrade (Upgrade_Plan_Value - Essential_Plan_Value)
Essential to Premium: 548.59 - 219.42 == 329.17
Essential to Extra 365.72- 219.42 == 146.3
Am I missing something? Why are they removing a year from the plan if you upgrade?
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If I upgrade to premium or extra, the next payment is 3/2/2025.
They're taking a year off (so -$59.99) and charging for the upgrade.
$100 for essentials upgrade and $149.99 for the premium upgrade.
I have 971 days left. The actual upgrade cost to 1335 days:
+ Listed Upgrade Fee
+ Loss of 1 Year at Essential rate
+ Addition of 1 Year at new Plan Rate (to adjust for year removal)
(Upgrade_Fee + Essential_Year_Deduction_Value + Plan_Year_Addition)
Essential to Premium: 149.99 + 59.99 + 119.99 == 329.98
Essential to Extra : 100.00 + 59.99 + 99.99 == 259.98
Essential (Do nothing): 0
Value of 1335 Days
Essential: 1335 / 365 * 59.99 == 219.42
Extra: 1335 / 365 * 99.99 == 365.72
Premium: 1335 / 365 * 149.99 == 548.59
What it should cost to upgrade (Upgrade_Plan_Value - Essential_Plan_Value)
Essential to Premium: 548.59 - 219.42 == 329.17
Essential to Extra 365.72- 219.42 == 146.3
Am I missing something? Why are they removing a year from the plan if you upgrade?
I have the same 1 year removed when I look at upgrading on the website.
The upgrade cost also seems scaling, I had a renewal out until 3 Jan 2025 and it was $80 to upgrade to Extra, now I added a year via eneba (total cost was $44.39 via a different vendor that had it in stock) and now it is $99.94 to upgrade to Extra ($149.91 for Premium).
The original person complained that the old Playstation Plus was increased in price. It was NOT. That's a fact. And that's what the FreedomPenguin stated; no price hike for PS+.
You are talking about PlayStation Now, which was something completely different than PlayStation Plus. But FreedomPenguin is absolutely correct in that PlayStation Plus is exactly the same as it was before this change; same service and same price. It is now just renamed to PlayStation Plus Essential.
PlayStation Now has been discontinued and its services rolled into the higher tiers of PlayStation Plus.
If someone before wanted to download and play PlayStation 4 games, they could do it with PS Now. Now they would need a PS+ Extra or Premium tier. If someone wanted to stream games before, they needed PS Now and now need PS+ Premium.
For those who do not want or need streaming, they will actually save money on the new service **if** they also usually have a PS Plus subscription. For those who want to stream games, they will pay the same if they had PS+ before and more if they did not have PS+.
I'm personally coming out way ahead on this new service because I bought a 3 month PS Now subscription before the switchover and it converted my PS+ subscription to PS Plus Premium until 2027.
people who used PS now are now shafted
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