{"id":455193,"date":"2026-05-18T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455193\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:10:08","slug":"sony-is-raising-short-subscription-prices-for-playstation-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/455193\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony is raising short-subscription prices for PlayStation Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Sony is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PlayStation\/status\/2056404450793938989\" rel=\"nofollow\">hiking the starting price<\/a> of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in \u201cselect regions,\u201d blaming \u201congoing market conditions.\u201d Beginning May 20th, 1-month subscriptions will start at $10.99 USD \/ \u20ac9.99 EUR \/ \u00a37.99 GBP, while 3-month subscriptions will start at $27.99 USD \/ \u20ac27.99 EUR \/ \u00a321.99 GBP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In the US, the changes result in a $1 price increase for a one-month Essential tier subscription and a $3 increase for a three-month Essential tier subscription. It\u2019s unclear if other PlayStation Plus tiers will see price hikes as well. PlayStation didn\u2019t immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If you are a current subscriber, prices will stay the same for you (except in Turkey and India, according to Sony) unless you change your subscription tier or let your subscription lapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The PlayStation Plus price hikes follow two recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/902224\/sony-ps5-playstation-price-hike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">price<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/762410\/sony-ps5-price-hike-raise-digital-pro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">increases<\/a> for PS5 consoles. Sony said its April PS5 price hike was <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2026\/03\/27\/new-price-changes-for-ps5-ps5-pro-and-playstation-portal-remote-player\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">due to<\/a> \u201ccontinued pressures in the global economic landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sony is hiking the starting price of one-month and three-month PlayStation Plus subscriptions in \u201cselect regions,\u201d blaming \u201congoing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[213,61,60,43,6993,80],"class_list":["post-455193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gaming","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-playstation","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}