{"id":176813,"date":"2016-08-23T07:24:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T05:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=176813"},"modified":"2016-08-23T07:26:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T05:26:31","slug":"playstation-plus-subscription-price-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/176813-playstation-plus-subscription-price-increases.html","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation Plus subscription price increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation Plus subscription prices in the US and Canada will increase from 22 September, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2016\/07\/27\/playstation-plus-free-games-for-august-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sony has announced<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you are a current member, the new prices will take effect if your membership renews on or after this date,&#8221; said Sony.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This marks the first time that PS Plus membership prices will increase in the US and Canada since the launch of the service in 2010.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PlayStation Plus memberships will change to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>12-month membership<\/strong> &#8211; $59.99 USD\/$69.99 CAD<\/li>\n<li><strong>3-month membership<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; $24.99 USD\/$29.99 CAD<\/li>\n<li><strong>1-month membership<\/strong> &#8211; $11.99 CAD (remains $9.99 USD)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">No word on South Africa<\/h3>\n<p>The European PlayStation blog and the SA\u00a0PlayStation Store had not posted subscription price increases at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/playstation-plus-subscription-price-increasing\/1100-6442878\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gamespot noted<\/strong><\/a> that there was a\u00a0PlayStation Plus price hike in the UK in 2015, while South Africa experienced a price hike in 2014.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on gaming<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/176675-playstation-4-slim-leaks-online-report.html\">PlayStation 4 Slim leaks online: Report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/176541-2016-pokemon-world-championships-kick-off.html\">2016 Pok\u00e9mon World Championships kick off<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation Plus subscription prices in the US and Canada will increase from 22 September, Sony has announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":110824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[36,26972,193],"class_list":["post-176813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-active","tag-playstation-plus","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176815,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176813\/revisions\/176815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}