PS Plus Gets An Underwhelming Selection Of New Perks

Published Nov 6, 2026, 7:30 AM EST Josh Coulson is an editor at TheGamer covering breaking news on everything from colorful platformers to the latest Lego sets. Primarily a news writer since 2018, Josh has covered just about every major game from the past decade. Now an editor, their focus has shifted to being the leading affiliate expert at the site, building relationships between TheGamer and global brands including Mattel, Funko, and The Pokemon Company. PlayStation really needs to win back some goodwill with its user base right about now, and it seems one of the ways it plans on doing that is by trying to make PS Plus more appealing. A whole suite of new perks should do the trick, right? Well, maybe not. New PS Plus Perks Aren't As Great As They Seem PlayStation PlayStation proudly took to social media this morning to showcase all of the new things PS Plus subscribers will now get just for being signed up. The thing is, the carefully curated social media post makes the new offerings seem better than the reality. The implication that PS Plus now comes with YouTube Premium, a subscription to Audible, and a few other desirable perks. That’s not the case at all. What you’re actually getting are limited-time free trials to those services. Three months of YouTube Premium, a discount on your Audible sub for the same period, oh, and you’re not suddenly getting Sony Pictures Core with all tiers of PS Plus, just the one movie one time. Full access is still reserved for Premium subscribers. The rest of the new perks are all pretty similar. A timed subscription to Calm, money off a DAZN sub, 5% off consoles and accessories, and 10% off games. It’s something, sure, and if PlayStation was in good standing with its users right now, it would probably be welcomed at best, or simply ignored at worst. PlayStation Will Have To Do Better Than That To Win People Back On Side PlayStation That’s not where PlayStation is right now, though. The company keeps making decisions that feel like it isn’t considering what its users want at all, so the slightly misleading reveal of these new perks has just generated even more fervor among PS5 owners. The bulk of the replies to the PlayStation post are questioning how trials can be considered perks. Others have noted that most of the services for which PS Plus is offering trials actually offer free trials anyway, whether you have PS Plus or not. You’d think money off a new console, at the very least, would be a welcome perk, but even that is being laughed at. It’s been highlighted that not only is a PS5 Pro still $855, even with the new 5% discount, but they’re not even in stock at the moment, so even if you do want one, you can’t have one. The overall takeaway seems to be that this is a desperate, and poorly executed, attempt by PlayStation to get some of its users back on side. Like they have scraped together a few perks in the hope that bundling them together and adding them all at once might make people happy. If anything, it has done the exact opposite, and with console prices rising and the death of discs looming, PlayStation still doesn’t know how to get people to like it again, or perhaps it simply doesn’t care.