Tier                          Original Pricing.       New Pricing
PS Plus Essential	£49.99 / $59.99	£59.99 / $79.99
PS Plus Extra	        £83.99 / $99.99	£99.99 / $134.99
PS Plus Premium	£99.99 / $119.99	£119.99 / $159.99

33+% is quite a hike, considering that Sony doesn’t offer PS+ Day 1 Launches, unlike Xbox. I hope they start offering their games day one, else people will start to unsubscribe.

It’s a bummer, since I like PS+ Extra a lot (don’t get PS+ Premium, it’s not worth it)

Also very scummy of them to hide their pricing update behind the Sept PS+ monthly games blogpost

  • arefx
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    2310 months ago

    Steam deck is a great way to get into PC gaming if you don’t have a lot of money or a PC. It can run a lot of games. Enough that you won’t get bored any time soon.

    • @RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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      310 months ago

      I would say a pc would be cheaper if ur on a budget as u can easily get a bunch of used hardware and rig it together till you can afford something better for an upgrade

      • arefx
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        310 months ago

        Eh maybe if you’re hands on and want to take the time to find the deals on the parts. You could just dock a steam deck and plug in a key board mouse and monitor.

      • bitwolf
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        210 months ago

        Agreed. I built up a nice console PC using a used HP Pavilion Gaming PC.

        Threw in a 50$ 32gb ram kit and a 60$ 2tb SSD.

        Total cost <450$ and it’s a bit faster than a Steam Deck.

        I wouldn’t call this beginner friendly compared to a deck, but the potential cost savings are real.