Sony’s PlayStation Plus subscription has been around for ten years – Gaming – .Geeks

It is exactly ten years ago on Monday when Sony introduced its paid PlayStation Plus subscription. Initially, that subscription offered extras like a number of free games per month. On the PlayStation 4, the subscription is required to play multiplayer games.

Sony announced its PlayStation Plus subscription during the E3 game fair in mid-June 2010. At the end of that month, the subscription was available, for fifty euros a year or fifteen euros a quarter. Subscribers received free games and extra featuressuch as automatic updates to the PlayStation 3. One of the first games Sony gave PS Plus subscribers was WipeOut HD.

In 2011 a new feature came to PlayStation Plus; Subscribers were then able to save games of PS3 games online. Before that was 150MB of storage space available. Later that was increased to 10GB and since early 2019 users have 100GB of space for savegames.

In the PlayStation 3 era, the subscription was not required to play multiplayer games. Competitor Microsoft did require the paid Xbox Live Gold subscription. With the introduction of the PlayStation 4 in 2013, Sony followed Microsoft’s example. Before playing multiplayer games on PS4 the PlayStation Plus subscription is required.

In 2015, Sony increased the price of the quarterly subscription from fifteen to twenty euros per three months. The price of the annual subscription remained unchanged. This also changed in 2017. Then Sony raised the price for an annual subscription to sixty euros. That is also the current suggested retail price.

Sony introduced it in 2015 Vote to Play-concept, where PS Plus members could vote on a number of games to determine which titles would become available. That initiative was canceled a year later.

For years, PlayStation Plus members received two games every month for both the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 and for the PlayStation Vita handheld. This came to an end in 2019. Since then, members get PS4 games only. That drop from six to two monthly games was critical of members. Nevertheless, the subscription remains a success for Sony. At the presentation of the quarterly results in May, the console manufacturer announced that there are 41.5 million paying members to be.

Sony celebrates its tenth anniversary of its PlayStation Plus subscription with the provision of an additional PlayStation 4 game this month. Subscribers get NBA 2K20, Rise of the Tomb Raider and as a bonus game the interactive movie Erica. A free PS4 theme will also be available featuring PlayStation Plus’s tenth anniversary.

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