Comment on PlayStation Plus price increase announced for new customers
Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
With every one of these price increases, my chances of subscripting to PS plus drops lower and lower.
They don’t even give a competitive service when compared to Xbox… Like don’t get me wrong I think Gamepass is a scam as well but it’s less of a scam than PS plus… 11$/m vs gamepasses 10$/m and gamepass gives a handful of games, cloud backups, cloud gaming and multiplayer… PS plus just gives multiplayer and save backups and a couple free games a month that require ongoing subscription to play.
PS+ does have higher tiers with more benefits. The mid-tier one gives access to a ton of PS4 and PS5 games, and the top tier adds older games and cloud gaming.
And even base PS+ has SharePlay. That’s got to be my most-used feature, but I never see people talk about it.
Yea, I intentionally restricted my post to the base tiers as gamepass has a similar schema since they both show similar featuresets at higher tiers.
I made a basic breakdown:
This was just a somewhat quick list of info found online when comparing the two. I can see each tier being useful to someone, but I personally find that Sonys offerings for PS+ don’t stack to Gamepass, and that’s from someone who has been loyal sony fan since the PS1.
sony’s classic catalogue is such a huge disappointment. i shouldnt have to keep a ps2 to play its games in the year 2026. maybe ill get it on my xbox 🤣
iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 days ago
You applied that qualifier to PS+ as if that’s not also true of Gamepass.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 days ago
While there are a lot of multiplayer games on Gamepass, there are still tons of single player games on there that are worth playing.
Plague Tale, Psychonauts 2, I’m pretty sure most Elder Scrolls past Morrowind are available with GP too.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 2 days ago
Right, but you can’t play them if you aren’t paying the subscription fee if Gamepass. Same as ps+.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think you’re misunderstanding what he’s saying.
I think he’s saying ps+ only gives you a few multiplayer games that need multiplayer to play, and need ps+.
Whereas gamepass gives a few games per month, and while gamepass is still required to play them in single player, you don’t have to play multiplayer.