Sony PlayStation Plus 12 Month Membership

I'm finally writing this review as it's recently been announced that a PS+ account is mandatory to play online on the PS4. Personally, I'd 100% completely and utterly recommend PS+ to every single Playstation owner regardless. It just gives you so much for your money.Apart from all the smaller features such as cloud save game storage and automatic updates, along with the discounts on store content, easily the best feature, and the reason every Playstation owner should buy this is the instant game collection.Every month, the store is updated with 3 PS3 games which are completely free of charge, one will be a major retail game such as Hitman, Red Dead Redemption, Bioshock 2, Batman: Arkham City etc. The second will be another retail game, though less major or well known, and finally there will generally be a PSN game. On top of this You get an extra 3 games which stay on the store for a year, currently Uncharted 3, LBP Karting and XCOM. That's 39 games over the course of a year. Free. Less than £1 per game. They've also been known to throw in extra games, a couple of months ago I got God of War HD as a total extra.That's great, but when you also factor in the fact you get an extra 2 PS Vita games per month, along with a couple which are around per year, you're starting to get down to around 60p per game. Now add in the fact that you'll also get 1 (initially) PS4 game per month and the value just becomes ridiculous.I can truly say that any games fan should seriously seriously consider buying this service. The only two downsides are that I do believe you lose the games you got free if you let your subscription end (though why you'd want to do that is beyond me), and that you get so many free games, you do find your hard drive becomes limiting very quickly.

Great price for a whole year, at the time I bought this item it was cheaper than Sony.The only shame with this item is that it is a physical product, I think this is totally unnecessary as all you get it a CD case and inside a product code, very wasteful really and would be better if you purchased and the product code was sent to your email address.Apart from this it is exactly as described, came in a few days and was very easy for me to register.

Do not buy this product! Sony have decided not to tell customers that you must be over 18 to subscribe to the PS Plus. Only master account holders can use the code and download games. So if you bought a PS Vita for your underage child they cannot use it to access the store.Remember, the PS Vita can only be registered to one user only at a time. So if your underage child has a PS Vita, they have to reset the system and sign in as a master account holder in the name of an adult before they can access PS Plus, which kind of defeats the object of having subaccounts attached to a master. In other words you need to be over 18 to own a PS Vita and use it without restriction.No other console or handheld has this type of restriction. It's like Sony is letting you have a PS Vita on licence, even though you bought and paid for it with your own money. You cannot log into the same account on two different devices at the same time so if you have a PS3 and a Vita and are logged in. You cannot use the PS3 and PS Vita simultaneously.The Vita itself is an illogical piece of kit, so powerful and versatile, but restrictive in allowing other users to use it. Just imagine if you had to swap sim cards before allowing your friend to use your mobile. This is Digital Rights Management gone mad. Sony got their fingers burnt by the hackers but they are alienating their paying customers with this paranoid obsession with only allowing one user per device.Just imagine if everything in life was controlled by Sony. Want to take a Cab? Sorry, someone already used it today, your're gonna have to walk home. Family holiday? forget it, only one person can board the plane and he's the pilot! The Matrix is here and Sony is Mr Smith.If you have a PS3 and you are over 18 then you can subscribe to PSN Plus and get the benefits. But if you have a handheld and are under 18 then don't let Sony rip you off. It's bad enough with the proprietary memory that is 5 times the price of an equivalent SD card, but this, this is the type of company policy that makes you wonder if they are deliberately trying to destroy the company. The company who were the market leaders 10 years ago with the playstation 2. Now losing marketshare daily to Microsoft Xbox and now I will not be recommending the Vita to anyone when they can get a tablet or smartphone with no restrictions on who can use it or what apps/games you can put on it. How the mighty have fallen, good luck to the Japanese getting out of the recession with their major companies in meltdown.

I was told by friends that Playstation Plus was great value for money and you get lots of good extras. I have not found it very good at all. There are hardly any demos (9-11 last time i looked) and the free to play games are low budget indie games, not top games.There is not much for the PS4 but i guess and hope that the contents on Playstation Plus increase.For PS3 there are a lot more demos and a few more games.The discount you get from being a Playstation Plus member is poor, you get a few pence off some games and add-on's.I have only had Playstation Plus for about 6 weeks and i dont think I'll be getting it again. Im not much of a online gamer and you need Playstation Plus to play friends online.Hope I've helped some of you.

You need this subscription for online multiplayer but the additional contents they say are great are so bad.... you get cheap arcade games to download... you save nothing more than 10% on games that nobody wants. It is kind of a Joke. Xbox seem to get the best games!!! Unfortunately you need this to play online so I would deffo get if your on next gen ps4