I am very pleased with my 1 year of PS Plus Premium. I will definitely resubscribe.
Do you guys subscribe to 1 month, 3 months or 12 months?
Difference PS Plus prices between accounts.
how often is the one month subscription supposed to charge me?
How much is PlayStation Plus?
Sony offers three PlayStation Plus plans. The Essential plan starts at $10/month, while Extra starts at $15/month, and Premium starts at $18/month. All three tiers are also available at a discount if you choose to pay for three months or one year upfront. Sony's most recent price increase for PlayStation Plus came in September 2023.
PlayStation Plus plans and prices
What is PlayStation Plus?
PlayStation Plus is a gaming subscription service that launched in 2010 and then expanded with new plans in 2022; it's required to play most multiplayer games online on PS5 and PS4 consoles and to keep your game save data backed up in the PlayStation cloud.
PlayStation Plus is available in three tiers: Essential, Extra, and Premium. The latter two plans give members additional features, including the ability to play hundreds of PlayStation games as part of their subscription.
PlayStation Plus members also get access to free games every month that they can keep for as long as they're a member. Sony gives discounts and special offers to PlayStation Plus members in the PlayStation digital store as well.
When are the best PS Plus deals usually available?
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I used two different methods to quantify the value I received from the service to be able to compare it against the cost of the subscription.
The first method gets the total of the lowest sales prices of each game that I played.
The second method divides the cost of the sub by the number of games I played.
The reason for the 2 different methods is a possible difference between owning the game and renting the game.
For my own personal gaming preference, once I finish playing a game I don't touch it ever again. So, buying the game & selling it back or renting the game for a predetermined amount of time makes no difference to me.
The total cost for 12 months of PS Plus Premium for me was $111.99 because of the Black Friday 2024 discount.
From the first method, I got a total value of $240.28 from my cost of $111.99.
The $240.28 comes from the sites psprices.com (for the PS4 & PS5 games) and psdeals.net (for the PS3 games).
In the end, I got $128.29 more than I paid for ($240.28 - $111.99).
From the second method, I played a total of 28 games.
From the $111.99, each game cost me $4.00 each if I had rented them for a whole year, which is not possible in my area.
Overall, I'm glad with these results and will definitely subscribe again. In addition, I now have 28 games added to my platinum/100% mosaic.