On June 11, PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscribers gained access to Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus — a platformer by Sucker Punch Productions, which was originally released in 2002 on the PlayStation 2. According to the TrueTrophies portal, the game had a record-breaking launch within PlayStation Plus Premium.

On August 30, Sony announced that it would raise the cost of an annual PlayStation Plus subscription by a third in September. Investors took this decision well: at Friday’s trading, the company’s stock price rose by 3.4%.

Сегодня Sony Interactive Entertainment объявила о запуске нового подразделения в Китае — China Software Business Department. О нем пока известно немного, но, согласно документам компании, возглавлять его будет Шон Келли (Sean Kelly), бывший глава китайского филиала PlayStation.

The other day, Asian players started complaining about the new version of PlayStation Plus launched in the region. Allegedly, when switching to more advanced levels, users need to pay extra if they bought a subscription with a discount in the past. Now Sony has stated that everything happened because of problems in the operation of the service.

A letter from the Hong Kong support service was shared by one of the ResetEra users. It says that players who once bought PlayStation Plus at a discount and now want to upgrade to a more advanced level in an updated subscription should compensate for the resulting difference. The service will calculate the required amount automatically.

The launch of Sony’s updated subscription service is not going very smoothly. On May 24, it started working in Asia, and almost immediately local users started complaining about problems.

On January 4, a cooperative shooter Deep Rock Galactic appeared in the PlayStation Plus subscription. In the first week, Sony game console owners downloaded the game 6 million times. Before the game appeared in the service, its cumulative sales across all platforms were 3 million copies.

Sony has announced plans to significantly expand the audience of its online and mobile services. To do this, the Japanese company will allocate over $18 billion, which will be used for strategic investments. They plan to develop gaming services, among other things.According to Reuters, Sony will allocate 2 trillion rubles (about $18.39 billion) for these purposes within three years.