Your PlayStation Plus Sub Was Worth Over $1,100 This Year

Push Square: "We've crunched the numbers, and your PlayStation Plus subscription was worth $1,101.78 in North America and £828.78 in the UK this year. Subscribers to the premium platform snagged 72 games across the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and Vita – and that's not including bonuses such as DriveClub: PS Plus Edition."

[FallenAngel1984]

Congratulations Sony for 5 years of PS+ giving consumers more bang for their buck. The service was so great it even influenced XBL to follow the trend.

[Me-Time]

Helllll yeah. I should've gotten it sooner. PS4 "forced" me to get it, but I got quite a few games given to me that I wanted to buy. Gotta renew the subscription in February (though I got the Destiny bundle exactly five months beforehand.) Oh, and I still have my PS3.

[UltraNova]

I'll be honest, AAA PS plus offerings on ps4 this year was a letdown.

That said Rocket League alone was worth the 35 euros I paid for the yearly subscription.

[medman]

I have come to be afraid of psplus.....it has made my backlog impossible to ever get through. So many games!!

[ZaWarudo]

Ehh, I probably only played less than half of what was offered this year.

[RpgSama]

So more or less $500 worth out of your $50 sub??.

I think that's really good value

[Immorals]

Still good value for money though!

[thekhurg]

I don't think I played more than two games, but I'm fine with the subscription either way.

Not an indie game fan so I pretty much ignore the freebies each month.

[jerethdagryphon]

First light thief and puppetteer mostly. ive played

[0to100]

...but the games sucked, you mean the games that were priced but didn't sell?

[Aloy-Boyfriend]

K one bubbled man

[RpgSama]

I guess 72 games with an average score on metacritic of 76 are games that sucked.

Did I play or was interested in EVERY game released this year on the service? NO, definitely not, but A LOT of games were really great games that I never would've played any other way, totally worth the money for me.

P.s: I know Metacritic is not be all, end all discussion about game quality, but an average score of 76 out of 72 games is actually quite high.

[Bathyj]

Thats all well and good but I wouldnt have bought a majority of those games. I cut PS+ some slack cos I know it takes time to build a library and dont expect the heights PS3 PS+ got to in the first year but its time we started getting some full retail release games on there.

I mean really, Knack and Killzone should have been offered by now, theyre 2 year old games and arent exactly burning up the charts anymore. And theyre 1st party. This would also rejuvenate the Killzone online scene.

What about games like Saint Row 4 which is selling dirt cheap anyway. Why not put that up? At least it a full retail game. Or Thief? Its been discounted that many times and given away on PS3, why not make it a PS4 Plus game?

Not good enough Sony and getting to be a joke. There have been some great games come out, but they were nearly all bite sized games. We want some full sized AAA games to justify resubscribing. PS3 PS+ was so amazing, dont let your standards slip too much just because youre enjoying success. Remember whose helping to make that happen.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Why do people disagree just to disagree? So you guys actually don't want retail games after 2 whole years? Did any of your have PS+ on PS3?

[Bathyj]

I must be an Xbox troll.

[IIFloodyII]

I didn't disagree with him, but all I want from the Plus Games, is good games, couldn't careless about it's budget, or how much it was at launch, as long as they are good, I'm fine.

[Rookie_Monster]

I agreed with everything you'd just said Bathyj. NOT only are old, old titles like Knack, KZ SF, and infamous SS not on there, but what really kills me is they took forever for the PSN plus version of Driveclub to be released and after a couple of months, they pulled it off the PSN plus catalog. That seems like cheaping it out and a slap to the face of us PSN Plus subscription members.

Compared to other subscription service like EA Access and Live Gold in which at certain months, they'll give you an old AAA retail game or two like Tomb Raider Definitive version and Dragon Age Inquisition, really makes Sony's offering seems inferior IMO.

Sony needs to do better in that aspect in 2016.

[refocusedman]

Plus offers triple a games. Ive had it since it was originally implemented and the games are diverse and ive gotten an opportunity to play grest games that i wouldnt have played otherwise. Games with gold doesnt I would say is either similar or a lesser value than plus (due to ps3 and vita offerings). If you have all 3 systems plus is absolute amazing.

[xHeavYx]

@Rookie
Lol, nice try, but I didn't hear you complain when GWG offered that Pool game for like 3 months in a row.
I mean, why even bother writing nonsense when you are a known Xbox troll?

[Me-Time]

I'm with the same sentiment as Bathyj. But, there were some damn good games (personal preference) given out through PS+.

[Bathyj]

Not saying there arent. I'm saying full retail PS4 games on Plus have been rare as hens teeth and its been 2 years so I think its past time they stepped it up, especially when they have older 1st party games that would be great candidates.

Im not against indies or smaller games, I love them and PS+ is a great home for them. But the thing I've always loved about Playstation is its the best when it comes to variety, so that means small games AND large games. PS+ on PS4 is lacking in this regard and needs to change.

[Me-Time]

Exactly. I won't go into depth, but I see what you're saying, completely.

[susanto1228]

Misleading

worth of what?? crap or worthy games.
It all depends on what gamers used...and I
doubt it if all gamers took advantage.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Misleading? Are numbers a foreign language to you?

[Corpser]

And my Netflix and Spotify subscriptions are worth millions!

[kraenk12]

Netflix and Spotify Quality is far from DVD/Blu Ray or CD quality though!

[susanto1228]

spot on spot on

[Killzoner99]

The BEST value in gaming by far. So many amazing games I can't wait to see whats coming next. The competition doesn't come close.

[SatanicEyeJesus]

Indeed... These people that are complaining are xbox fanboys trolling or very spoiled kids that want just newly released AAA games.

I have my subscription since the beginning and the service is very good, I discovered a lot of great games that I wouldn't buy if wasn't for PS+.

For the X fanboys, I just ask you to do a little research and compare year-by-year the games given by both companies.

[rainslacker]

I'm a known Sony fan, and I find the PS4 offerings kind of weak. not that some of the indie games they have aren't good, I've enjoyed quite a few of them, but they aren't games I'd be fussed about if I never played.

I also have a Vita and PS3, and that has made it more than worth the sub cost, but even those are getting the bigger titles less and less.

I'm not really upset with the value or anything, because I do feel I've gotten my moneys worth a few time over, but it's a far cry from last gen where I could easily get my moneys worth ten times over.

There's nothing wrong with PS+, and some people do make it out to be more indie than it actually is, because the actual claim that there are no AAA games is false. It's just the the bigger games aren't as frequent, and no one pays attention to Vita or PS3 offerings as much anymore unless they are still into those systems. PS4 is the only place I see the selection fall behind expectations set up last gen, and some months can be disappointing for PS3/Vita.

[Tankbusta40]

Playstation plus has been garbage for ps4 since launch... It's just been a fee to play online...

[uth11]

Too bad some people won't be happy until its worth $4320 (every PS+ game is a $60 game)

[22CobraKing]

It's a very good value. Even if you don't like all of them at least 4 make your subscription worth it. But people still complain they want newer AAA games, but they know we will eventually get games that were released the first year the ps4 came out. But then they still complain that they already got it or that's is mediocre.

[ZorinInc]

PS+ has gradually got worst all year and anyone can continue defend this now poor excuse of a the service in the last few months is taking the fanboy allegiances too far. The games have been abysmal and without you speaking out we will be getting demos and beta access as free games pretty soon.

[tulholdren]

I liked the games I got for free not all of them but some yes. But the service is different to all because there were big games that did nothing for me, while the P's plus one did me just fine, again it's all personal opinion how you feel about the service.

[UserNameIsNotTaken]

Cool

[ocelot07]

I honestly think PS+ is good value for money. It opens my eyes to games I probably wouldn't buy if it was not for PS+.

As a few mentioned. I rather have really good games like Trine and like Rocket League, Don't Starve. Rather than these boring so called AAA titles like Thief and Tony Hawks Pro Skater 5.

I don't get the obsession with people and demanding AAA titles. Out of all the PS4 titles we have had over the last 12 months. I would say I have tried about 40% of them and liked about 35% of them. That is still decent value for money. The other 50% I simply have not had the time to try. The likes of Broken Age, Swapper, Styx, Lara Croft.