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(For Southeast Asia) PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for September: Saints Row, Black Desert – Traveler Edition, Generation Zero

New pricing changes to PlayStation Plus 12-Month plans.

blog.playstation.com

Additionally for Thailand and Malaysia, there are new prices for PlayStation Plus 1-month and 3-month plans:

PlayStation Plus Essential 1-Month Subscription
RM 32 | THB 240

PlayStation Plus Extra 1-Month Subscription
RM 49 | THB 360

PlayStation Plus Deluxe 1-Month Subscription
RM 55 | THB 420

PlayStation Plus Essential 3-Month Subscription
RM 75 | THB 560

PlayStation Plus Extra 3-Month Subscription
RM 125 | THB 920

PlayStation Plus Deluxe 3-Month Subscription
RM 145 | THB 1,060

PS Plus Asia September 2023 FREE Games Lineup – Pokde.Net

Not sure if it's worth subscribing this month? We have the full PS Plus Asia September 2023 free games lineup right here.

pokde.net

PlayStation Plus Deluxe is now available in Thailand for over 300 games. - Time News

PlayStation Plus Has opened a new membership system in Asian countries. including Thailand as the first…

time.news

Malaysia

• PS Plus Essential
  • 1 month: RM 29 -> RM 32 (9%)
  • 3 months: RM 69 -> RM 75 (8.7%)
  • 12 months: RM 159 -> RM 235 (47.7%)
• PS Plus Extra
  • 1 month: RM 44 -> RM 49 (11.3%)
  • 3 months: RM 114 -> RM 125 (9.6%)
  • 12 months: RM 269 -> RM 400 (48.7%)
• PS Plus Deluxe
  • 1 month: RM 50 -> RM 55 (10%)
  • 3 months: RM 130 -> RM 145 (11.5%)
  • 12 months: RM 309 -> RM 460 (48.9%)

Thailand

• PS Plus Essential
  • 1 month: THB 210 -> THB 240 (14.3%)
  • 3 months: THB 490 -> THB 560 (14.3%)
  • 12 months: THB 1190 -> THB 1830 (53.8%)
• PS Plus Extra
  • 1 month: THB 320 -> THB 360 (12.5%)
  • 3 months: THB 810 -> THB 920 (13.6%)
  • 12 months: THB 2000 -> THB 3070 (53.5%)
• PS Plus Deluxe
  • 1 month: THB 370 -> THB 420 (13.5%)
  • 3 months: THB 810 -> THB 1060 (30.9%)
  • 12 months: THB 2000 -> THB 3530 (76%)

 

[feynoob]

Its not looking good there man.
Sony need to seriously revamp ps+ with more 1st party games, otherwise this is shit.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Jimbo is on a roll!

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

 

[Nankatsu]

 

[StereoVsn]

Same service, same game selection, and a substantial price increase. What's not to like? /s

WTF is going on? Sony did the numbers and decided to jettison bunch of folks who don't want to pay monthly and even jacked that up?

 

[GHG]

Jimbo clearly wants some of Jensen's sexy leather jackets.

 

[Little Chicken]

It's a non issue really, Sony knows its fans will bend over and happily take what they're given.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

Like every other subscription service this isn’t about increasing numbers anymore. It’s about increasing revenue.

That subscription model dream from a few years ago was basically never going to happen. It’s pretty clear now.

The only thing I’m realizing is I prefer to buy my games like i have always done lmao. I’ll start dropping some ganing subscriptions like I’ve done Netflix and some others

 

[SplunkyMunkey]

I think it's time to get jimbo out!

Ps plus increase
Gaas games
Slowly Lacking in 1st party studios I would of expected jimbo to go after a publisher
Beginning to lack on first party games

 

[sainraja]

They shouldn't be raising prices right now, so I wonder what the reason is behind raising them all of a sudden. Like, what is going on behind the scenes?

Also, personally, "new" content on a subscription service should matter more than the fact that it's first-party. I am not a big fan of where the industry seems to be going (heavy into subs) but if we want Sony/MS/Nintendo to fund more high-quality content, then I believe the expectation of day one first-party needs to go. I know, I know MS is big on that so they're not changing that anytime soon but....well, I guess we will see and hopefully I am wrong on this.

 

[Portugeezer]

• • 12 months: THB 2000 -> THB 3530 (76%)

 

[Godot25]

I mean. It's not like Sony does not have a numbers on how many people are expected to unsubscribe after price hike. Fact that they went forward with it means that they are okay with loosing fer subscribers while gouging others way more money...

 

[SmokedMeat]

76% in Thailand. Ouch

 

[SmokedMeat]

They shouldn't be raising prices right now, so I wonder what the reason is behind raising them all of a sudden. Like, what is going on behind the scenes?

New TV shows and GaaS games.

 

[feynoob]

Like every other subscription service this isn’t about increasing numbers anymore. It’s about increasing revenue.

That subscription model dream from a few years ago was basically never going to happen. It’s pretty clear now.

The only thing I’m realizing is I prefer to buy my games like i have always done lmao. I’ll start dropping some ganing subscriptions like I’ve done Netflix and some others

Brother, I have bad news for you. Our generation is fading and we have no power in this at the moment.
We have impulsive gamers who spend so much money on battle passes and mtx.
Sony, nintendo, EA, MS, Ubisoft, Activision all know this. Its why they are trying so hard to squeeze as much money as they can.

I think the days of good gaming is fading away. Its corporate greed at this stage.

 

[sainraja]

New TV shows and GaaS games.

If that is the case, I guess it is going towards "new" content, which is sort of what we all want, and hopefully Sony can find their "IT" GaaS game sooner so they can move on to something else such as the single-player action/adventure type of games.

 

[MrTired]

They shouldn't be raising prices right now, so I wonder what the reason is behind raising them all of a sudden. Like, what is going on behind the scenes?

Also, personally, "new" content on a subscription service should matter more than the fact that it's first-party. I am not a big fan of where the industry seems to be going (heavy into subs) but if we want Sony/MS/Nintendo to fund more high-quality content, then I believe the expectation of day one first-party needs to go. I know, I know MS is big on that so they're not changing that anytime soon but....well, I guess we will see and hopefully I am wrong on this.

Nothing happening behind the scenes there just leveraging being the market leader. Knowing that there will be minimal effect on the hardware sales and there will not be a mass exodus of people unsubscribing to PS plus.

 

[Chechack]

Average malaysian salary is RM 2,500.00

Yeap,get fucked sony lol

 

[sainraja]

Nothing happening behind the scenes there just leveraging being the market leader. Knowing that there will be minimal effect on the hardware sales and there will not be a mass exodus of people unsubscribing to PS plus.

That's possible but I sort of doubt that given everything else that is also happening in the industry so I feel like there is more to it than we might realize. Still, it's not a good decision, no matter the reason.

 

[quest]

Nothing happening behind the scenes there just leveraging being the market leader. Knowing that there will be minimal effect on the hardware sales and there will not be a mass exodus of people unsubscribing to PS plus.

Exactly have 80% of the market and people locked into digital libraries and sony can basically do what ever it wants. Not like people are going to abandon thier digit libraries to move to xbox or pc.

 

[alphachino]

Glad I unsubbed 2 years and only got a month here or there when there was something free I wanted to play.

In the last 2 years, my Steam collection has outgrown my PS collection substantially. (which I've been building since PS3).I have 500 games in Steam and about 250 with PlayStation (excluding PS+ freebies).

I don't see how PlayStation can ever get back a costumer like me back into paying for a subscription when I have zero other subs in my life, except for 1 or 2 tiny ones for iPhone apps. (<$10 per year).

Still gonna get a PS5 Pro when it realeased so I guess I'm still a good customer, but I honestly no longer feel captive to the PlayStation ecosystem at all.

 

[NickFire]

I don't care what they charge for the middle and upper tiers. But the essential tier increase is run of the mill price gouging since you lose online access without it.

 

[Labadal]

 

[IAmRei]

Either i am poorer than before or the price rising is unavoidable much pricey for my wallet

 

[adamsapple]

between 47% to 76% increment for 12 months plans​

 

[StreetsofBeige]

The price increase for 12 months codes is a sky high increase %, BUT how are these prices compared to other regions?

Are the Thai/Malaysiashort term codes and 12 month code values now similar to other regions value equation? Or is it still out of whack?

Eyeballing it, the old 12 month codes look priced at pay for 6 months get 6 free. Now it’s priced at about 8 months, get 4 free.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Damn, way to piss off people who buy yearly extensions. Pretty terrible deal now when you can get ~7-8 months from monthly subs... so you can sub only when you have time and interesting online games to play.

 

[Hudo]

Hold strong SEAbros, tell Sony to get fucked with that shit.

 

[dotnotbot]

The price increase for 12 months codes is a sky high increase %, BUT how are these prices compared to other regions?

Are the Thai/Malaysiashort term codes and 12 month code values now similar to other regions value equation? Or is it still out of whack?

Eyeballing it, the old 12 month codes look priced at pay for 6 months get 6 free. Now it’s priced at about 8 months, get 4 free.

Easy to google it, RM 235 and THB 1830 to Euro equals ~47-48 so still a lot cheaper than in Europe. Those regions have their games and subs often much cheaper than rest of the world, unless publisher decides otherwise. For example turkish PS Store used to be a paradise but their currency keeps going down and some publishers decided to up the prices by hundreds of % in order to roughly match those in other Stores, probably because people from other regions are making secondary accounts to buy games cheaper there.