{"id":95590,"date":"2026-10-26T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=95590"},"modified":"2026-10-26T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:20:00","slug":"heres-how-much-playstation-plus-cost-in-2010-vs-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=95590","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s How Much PlayStation Plus Cost In 2010 Vs. 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/img\/gallery\/heres-how-much-playstation-plus-cost-in-2010-vs-2026\/l-intro-1792603440.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When it launched in June 2010, subscribers got select monthly games and DLC on the house, early access to select game betas and Full Game Trials; the latter was new at the time and even saved progress and trophies earned along the way. All this cost $50\/year, or $18\/quarter, with no single-month subscription available then.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">By the end of 2016, the service saw a slight price hike but finally became available for a single month, originally costing $10. The other packages rose from $18 to $25\/quarter, and from $50 to $60\/year. In doing so, the company said, &#8220;The new pricing reflects the current market conditions while enabling us to continue to provide exceptional value.&#8221; Unsurprisingly, this wasn&#8217;t the last time a similar excuse came around.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, a little over a year after the PS5 launched, PlayStation Plus changed in a significant way to compete with Microsoft&#8217;s Game Pass. With three tiers to choose from \u2014 Essential, Extra and Premium \u2014 Sony delivered a swarm of new features that once cost gamers up to $120\/year for the Premium plan, which now costs $160\/year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Sony said that both one- and three-month subscriptions would see a $1\/month uptick due to &#8220;ongoing market conditions.&#8221; The Essential tier, now $11\/month, $28\/quarter and $80\/year, includes all the original subscription&#8217;s features: discounts, online multiplayer access and free monthly games.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Next up, for $17\/month, $44\/quarter or $135\/year, PlayStation Plus Extra lets players access up to 400 PS4 and PS5 games, including <em>Marvel&#8217;s Spider-Man Remastered<\/em> and <em>Dead by Daylight<\/em>, as well as plenty of other first- and third-party titles.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lastly, PlayStation Plus Premium is the end-all, be-all, with all the games in the Extra tier, plus streaming access to a massive library of retro games spanning the entire PlayStation lineup, including the PSP. To access this, it&#8217;ll cost $20\/month, $55\/quarter or $160\/year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2293248\/how-much-playstation-plus-cost-2010-vs-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><br \/>\n<center><script>\n  atOptions = {\n    'key' : 'ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540',\n    'format' : 'iframe',\n    'height' : 90,\n    'width' : 728,\n    'params' : {}\n  };\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highrevenueformat.com\/ab8cc34fbebd96e6c135978b4baca540\/invoke.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it launched in June 2010, subscribers got select monthly games and DLC on the house, early access to select game betas and Full Game&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2868,932,4567],"class_list":["post-95590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-cost","tag-heres","tag-playstation","wpcat-32-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}