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PS Plus Price Increases Confirmed for 15 Countries by Sony

The price of a PS Plus subscription across all tiers will be increasing on 16th April 2025 in 15 Latin American countries, Sony has today announced. The countries affected are as follows:

Argentina
Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay

Sony explained the increases are a result of “global market conditions”. By increasing the prices, it says it can “continue offering high-quality games and value-added benefits to your PlayStation Plus subscription”.

The price hike applies to all new users in the 15 nations, and current members will have to start paying the new costs at the start of their next billing date. The updated prices look like this:

	PS Plus Essential	PS Plus Extra	PS Plus Deluxe
1 month	$7.99	$11.99	$13.99
3 months	$20.99	$33.99	$39.99
12 months	$64.99	$107.99	$124.99

According to those affected, these prices reflect a $10 increase for 12 months of PS Plus Essential, a $14 increase for 12 months of PS Plus Extra, and an $18 increase for PS Plus Deluxe. That final one isn’t PS Plus Premium, by the way; it’s PS Plus Deluxe. This is the option Sony offers to countries that can’t stream PS3 games, so it’s a worse deal.

The announcement comes as Sony announces eight new games will be coming to PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium next week, including Hogwarts Legacy. Are you affected by these price increases? Let us know in the comments below.

[source blog.latam.playstation.com]

Liam grew up with a PlayStation controller in his hands and a love for Metal Gear Solid. Nowadays, he’s found playing the latest and greatest PS5 games as well as supporting Derby County. That last detail is his downfall.

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1
SMJ
8:30pm

This is more terrible news for the games industry.

2
Angelus3K
8:30pm

Glad my PS Plus Premium is £49.99 for the 5th year in a row!!

3
MasterChiefWiggum
8:35pm

The eye of Sauron avoiding my home country of Canada for now…

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Kanji-Tatsumi
8:37pm

Paying for online multiplayer should never have become standard. Possibly the worst thing Microsoft introduced to the industry

5
PcTV
8:43pm

@Kanji-Tatsumi Empty discs that are just access keys is also up there for me.

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PcTV
8:45pm

I’m from México and the PS Plus Deluxe also excludes us from general Cloud Streaming. Making some of the ads and articles about the PS Portal update a little confusing. (And some groups on FB and Reddit a bit of a tragedy)

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Coffeeglitch
8:46pm

@MasterChiefWiggum it’s getting to a point where I’m seriously considering resorting to pirating games. It’s a value proposition and most games are priced far higher than they’re worth. While losing a lot of my data, hard work and all would be a shame I’m not going to go broke for a game. You want my money? Give me a reason to spend it on your goods, otherwise you deserve nil.

Also to those who may argue that piracy just hurts developers (it does, I’m aware), developers are hurt far more by overzealous sales forecasts and are wiped out when an overbudget game delivers underwhelming numbers. The shifts in the market, regardless of politics, is the fault of the industry. If they want to use it as an excuse for this, fine, but we all know they haven’t been happy with low costs anyway.

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freddquadros
8:48pm

Brazil will be affected too. Damn, gaming is becoming more and more impossible expensive.

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Juanalf
8:49pm

We really should have made more of a fuzz when PlayStation during the PS4 reveal announced we will have to start to pay for online play, there was some noise but it should have been 100x more.

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Artois2
8:54pm

@Coffeeglitch “Also to those who may argue that piracy just hurts developers (it does, I’m aware), developers are hurt far more by overzealous sales forecasts and are wiped out when an overbudget game delivers underwhelming numbers”

Which in turn is partly due to piracy

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Kanji-Tatsumi
8:54pm

@Juanalf Unfortunately, Xbox was too busy having the worst console reveal of all time. So Sony managed to sneak it under the radar. PS Plus was also considered really good at the end of the PS3

12
GirlVersusGame
8:54pm

So many of those countries on that list are struggling more than the rest of us already. I already had a friend in Latin America quit current gen gaming last month because they couldn’t pay for the online that was needed for co-op/friends.

Edit: Just asked that friend for more perspective ‘the minimum wage in Brazil is R$ 1.518,00 so this is 24.5% of salary. The minimum wage in Brazil is equivalent to £202,13’

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KingPev
9:01pm

@Coffeeglitch …that is a flabbergasting, truly ridiculous perspective to take. I don’t even know where to begin 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️

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Coffeeglitch
9:03pm

@Artois2 it’s a catch 22. I stopped pirating over 10 years ago becuase I wanted to support studios, but the cost of games now just to be a paid tester? Why? Make no mistake, companies increasing costs is fuel for piracy the same way piracy is a fuel for increased costs. The issue is that many of these products aren’t even readily decent or available on PC, so there’s less incentive to bother even pirating it when it runs like a dying animal. But on console? Nah, let’s just charge 90 dollars plus tax (Canada) and have literally no refund policy in place when it can barely run. That’s not because of piracy, that’s because of laziness and sometimes developers trying to do something way outside of their wheelhouse.

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OldGamer999
9:09pm

Every time subscriptions go up
Every time game prices go up
Game pass ultimate looks even more of deal
Especially now Xbox have many studios, knocking out games and COD of course.
I’m signed up until March 2027 on the old £11.99 rate so I can’t complain.

And yes I have a PS5 Pro and preordered a switch 2 so no bias here.

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Coffeeglitch
9:09pm

@KingPev it really is, I’m aware. It’s just a matter of matching equally ridiculous reasoning and practices from the publishers and platform holders. The whole “it failed because of not being alive service”, “it failed because gamers expect too much”, etc. maybe it failed because it wasn’t a good game and people don’t trust your studio from past experiences which results in less sales. There are many factors, but if you can’t stop telling your customers they’re wrong for not wanting to keep giving you money, showing them time and again that you understand nothing then at what point does a customer just say “forget it” and stop caring? I’m not paying your wages, I’m buying a product that may not be perfect but I expect to get what I was sold.

That’s the saddest part of it, developers are hurt because of decisions out of their hands and no one wants to defend them anymore because the knock on effect taints the consumers opinion of a brand so badly that they become apathetic to it.

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Dan12836666
9:14pm

Sony need start offering better games if it’s rasing the price not old games constantly unlike gamepass ps doesn’t offer hardly any day one games it’s a bit of a rip off if you ask me

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roe
9:14pm

Ah the good old “we need to raise prices to keep bringing high quality” etc etc.

Good old capitalism

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Dan12836666
9:15pm

@roe they need start bringing high quality not keep bringing

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roe
9:18pm

@Dan12836666 they don’t need to do anything. Have you seen the money they’re making off this?

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Majin_Deicide
9:29pm

So dumb when 90% of players only get the standard subscription because you literally have to in order to play most games online.

Remember when PS3 had free online? Good times. Thanks Xbox🙄

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OldGamer999
9:34pm

@roe
With one big NEW Sony studio AAA per year at the moment.
Bring back the PS4 days please.

23
PsBoxSwitchOwner
9:36pm

So these countries now, rest to follow in summer, with GP not far behind.

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RagnarLothbrok
57m ago

Much cheaper there

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SMJ
56m ago

@Majin_Deicide Xbox charged for online play for the original Xbox and 360. Sony didn’t charge for online play in either of those 2 generations. They decided to start charging for online play with the PS4.

Sony’s decision had nothing to do with Xbox. They could have continued to offer free online play as they had done with the previous generations. But they didn’t.

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Nalim
53m ago

@Coffeeglitch Gaming is a luxury, you arent forced to buy games either. You dont want to go broke on games, but you are ok with robbing others from their income by pirating games apparently. Pretty low standards you got, sir.

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HRdepartment
46m ago

Old games from now on it is!

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Coffeeglitch
43m ago

@Nalim which studios do you know of that actually get paid a portion of sales? Royalties, I know what they are, but if publishers are setting targets that are simply unattainable and regularly declare they didn’t meet them, then do the developers make anything off sales? They’re paid to develop by their employer, but royalties are if they exceed targets. If they aren’t exceeding targets then how is piracy impacting them at all? I’m very apathetic to the state of the industry but I also want to have a clear picture of possible impacts piracy has as I still haven’t dabbled in over a decade. No intention to in the short term either, but one can’t really argue that it directly hurts developers if they aren’t meeting their parent company’s targets anyway. Not talking about small studios, by the way. I won’t even pirate their games come hell or high water, they’re also the only ones making quality stuff most of the time.

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IOI
39m ago

Yet another price hike and they’re not bothered to bring PS+ Premium to any of those countries.

Glad I stopped paying for this since the major price hike back in 2023.

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KawakiisaFraud
36m ago

I know why I completely avoid all these subscription services.

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Qu1n0n3z
23m ago

no problem, I’ll just unsubscribe 😊

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TheArt
17m ago

Don’t remember the last time I bought PS Plus. Can’t even have enough time for all the games I bought let alone Multiplayer or monthly free games that are just going to keep piling up in the backlog heavier than the fog in crookback bog!

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Ravix
9m ago

Greed is Greed. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitrary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one Greedy C*** and another… I’d rather not choose at all.