Don’t feel like shelling out $119.99 a year for PlayStation Plus Premium? A new exploit could nab you a membership for half that price.
ICYMI, Sony announced last week that it would be revamping its gaming subscription options this June, expanding its PlayStation Plus service into three new tiers: PS Plus Essential ($59.99/year), Extra ($99.99/year), and Premium ($119.99/year). It’s a long-awaited move that aims to compete with Microsoft’s ultra-popular Xbox Game Pass, a similar subscription service that’s widely considered the best deal in gaming.
Part of this restructuring involves shutting down the PlayStation Now game streaming service and migrating existing customers over to the Plus Premium tier “with no increase to their current subscription fees at launch,” per the announcement from Sony CEO and President Jim Ryan. Sony has since removed the option to buy more than a month’s worth of PS Now at a time — or so it probably thought.
First discovered by the popular gaming deals Twitter account @Wario64 (and verified by others, including yours truly), this specific page on the PlayStation Store website still gives you the option of buying a 12-month PS Now membership for $59.99. That’ll convert to a PS Premium Plus membership for free in June 2022, effectively saving you 50%. Here’s how to sign up:
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Visit this page on a web browser. (Note: It has to be web browser, not the PlayStation app.)
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Sign into your PSN account.
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Hit “Accept.”
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Add a payment method or top up your PSN wallet.
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Hit “Confirm Purchase” to make your 12-month PS Now subscription official.
You can seemingly stack your membership as many times as you want just by repeating those above steps, according to our friends over at IGN (which is owned by Mashable’s publisher, ZiffDavis). One person on Twitter claims to have locked theirs in all the way through 2032 — the limit does not exist, apparently.
Once your account switches over to a PS Premium Plus membership, you’ll get access to exclusive discounts, cloud storage, and online multiplayer access in addition to a “regularly refreshed” library of about 700 games. That includes classics from older PlayStation generations (via streaming and download) as well as newer titles from the PS4 and PS5 eras; Sony said it plans to include hits like Death Stranding, God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Returnal at launch.
Keep in mind that Sony is probably working very hard to make this PS Now/Premium Plus exploit null and void, so if you want to take advantage of it, act fast. We’ll update this post if anything changes.
