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.

Sony is great at making money on subscriptions. This conclusion can be reached, judging by the presentation from the last public strategic meeting of the company.

This became known from the second volume of the book Ultimate History of Video Games, excerpts from which have recently appeared online.

According to Reuters, Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida touched on this topic during a strategic briefing. He said that the company wants to play a leading role in the upcoming metaverse.

The other day, the media reported that Sony forbids internal studios to speak out on the topic of abortion in the United States. But that didn’t bother Bungie. The developers of Destiny 2 said — “no one will be able to put a muzzle on us and prevent us from standing up for a just cause.”

Insomniac has already faced a ban. Its head Ted Price (Ted Price) said in a letter to employees that a few days ago the studio decided to donate $ 50 thousand to the organization WRRAP, defending reproductive rights. Insomniac contacted Sony to discuss the company’s position, and in response received the following — you can make a donation, but you absolutely cannot announce it, as well as talk about abortion rights.

The last two weeks in the United States have been hotly discussing the possible abolition of the constitutional right to abortion. Jim Ryan, the head of Sony’s gaming division, did not stand aside either.

At the end of March, Jim Ryan announced that Sony has no plans to add its latest AAA games to the PS Plus subscription. Now Hikori Totoki, the company’s chief financial officer, has spoken almost the same way.

At the end of January, Sony announced that it was going to buy Bungie for $3.6 billion. Almost four months after that, the US Federal Trade Commission became interested in the deal, sources tell The Information.

Sony continues to develop its mobile games division. The company has appointed former Zynga product manager Olivier Courtemanche as Director of Mobile Products. And she gave the position of senior director to Kabam veteran Chris Davis.

The developer of Unreal Engine and Fortnite announced a new round of funding. This time Epic Games has raised $2 billion. The investors were Sony Group Corporation and KIRKBI, which owns 75% of the LEGO Group. The money will be used to create a metaverse.

Yesterday, several other gaming companies announced that they were leaving the Russian and/or Belarusian markets. The list includes Sony Interactive Entertainment, WarnerMedia, Rovio and others.

After the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, there were predictions that Microsoft’s next step could be the purchase of a conditional Capcom or SEGA. However, analyst Serkan Toto dispelled these myths and explained why the chances of absorbing a Japanese company tend to zero.Yakuza: Like a Dragon

Together with experts, we analyze whether Bungie really knows how to develop and operate games services, as well as how often transactions are made in the market, whose goal is to obtain expertise.

As part of the Bungie purchase, Sony Interactive Entertainment management has already noted that the studio hopes for expert assistance from the Bellevue game studio. However, it has only now become known how ambitious these plans are.

Sony’s gaming division shared its results for the third fiscal quarter (ended December 31). Despite generally good performance, sales of games and hardware have fallen. The company is unable to cope with the demand for the PS5, which now lags behind the PS4 in terms of the number of devices sold over the same period.The main thing from the financial report

Jim Ryan, head of Sony Interactive Entertainment, spoke about the significance of the Bungie acquisition deal for the future of the PlayStation. We are talking about further investments in the multiplatform, the creation of game services and development beyond one console. At the same time, other major purchases should be expected from Sony in the future.Destiny 2