{"id":124792,"date":"2022-04-25T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T08:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124792"},"modified":"2022-04-25T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T08:07:39","slug":"upgrading-to-new-ps-plus-service-will-be-seamless-sony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/124792-upgrading-to-new-ps-plus-service-will-be-seamless-sony","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading to new PS Plus service will be seamless \u2014 Sony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has confirmed in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resetera.com\/threads\/sony-confirms-you-can-easily-upgrade-to-different-tiers-of-ps-plus-at-any-time-by-paying-the-difference-adjusted-to-the-time-remaining.576235\/#post-85560709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emails<\/a><\/strong> to Asian PlayStation Plus (PS Plus) subscribers that upgrading to its new PS Plus service will be automatic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour current membership will automatically migrate into an equivalent subscription plan in the new PS Plus service, unless you let it expire before the new service launches,\u201d said Sony.<\/p>\n<p>Sony also confirmed in a post on its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.playstation.com\/2022\/03\/29\/all-new-playstation-plus-launches-in-june-with-700-games-and-more-value-than-ever\/#sf255029422\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>PlayStation Blog<\/b><\/a>\u00a0that its rollout schedule for the service is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asia markets (excluding Japan) \u2013 23 May<\/li>\n<li>Japan \u2013 1 June<\/li>\n<li>Americas \u2013 13 June<\/li>\n<li>Europe \u2013 22 June<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The email also confirms that the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/124438-playstation-plus-and-playstation-now-merge-into-one-service\">new PS Plus service will be split into three tiers<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 PS Plus Essential, PS Plus Extra, and PS Plus Deluxe.<\/p>\n<p>Sony also reassured subscribers that the new service\u2019s launch will not change their subscription fees or payment dates unless the subscribers themselves do this.<\/p>\n<p>Those who wish to upgrade to a higher tier PS Plus package must pay the difference between their existing subscription and the new plan.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, this difference will also be adjusted according to the remaining time of your current subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Sony has not shared any details regarding South African pricing and launch dates yet.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/124438-playstation-plus-and-playstation-now-merge-into-one-service\">PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now merge into one service<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New details have emerged regarding migrating and upgrading an existing PS Plus subscription to the new refreshed service once it launches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":124439,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11681],"tags":[5405,71,26067],"class_list":["post-124792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-playstation","tag-playstation-plus","tag-sony","tag-subscription-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}