PlayStation Sinks 26.9 Points Deeper in Last Amid PS Plus Perks Debate

PlayStation was already last on the Console Wars board, and our November 9 snapshot at 00:00 UTC took it down another 26.9 points, from 58.9 to 32.0. Fans were arguing about new PlayStation Plus perks and physical discs while it fell.

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The gap between these two snapshots was only 5 hours and 40 minutes, because the previous one was a late manual run at 18:19 UTC on November 8. PlayStation's sentiment was 11.1% positive, 44.4% negative and 44.5% neutral, the only platform on the board with so little positive talk. Counting this one, it had been last in six of the eight snapshots since 12:00 UTC on November 5. Nintendo held #1 at 81.4. The Vibe Score tracks fan mood on X, not sales, and the board has moved again since this snapshot, so check the dashboard for the current order.

Sony adds YouTube Premium, Calm and Audible offers to PS Plus

Sony introduced the new perks on November 6, in its words "special offers, trials and discounts from PlayStation, Sony and select partners". The list includes a three-month YouTube Premium trial for new Premium customers, a two-month Calm Premium trial, a movie credit for the Sony Pictures Core app, Audible at £0.99 a month for three months in the UK, and money off DAZN and Sony hardware.

The offers are not worldwide. GGRecon, citing Push Square, reported that members in the UK, France and Germany can claim them at every subscription level.

IGN's post on the announcement said not all fans are on board. The replies also landed on top of an existing argument over physical games: GamesRadar noted that Sony plans to end disc production for new PlayStation releases in January 2028, and collected replies to the perks post such as a fan writing that the only perk they wanted was discs.

Games were part of the same conversation. Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered, the collection of The Last Revelation, Chronicles and The Angel of Darkness, is one of November's PlayStation Plus Monthly Games alongside Dead Island 2 and Monster Train 2, playable from November 3. PlayStation's official account promoted it shortly before this snapshot.

What PlayStation fans are saying

One reply to IGN summed up the complaint about the perks. It had 13 likes, so read it as one person's view rather than a measure of the whole fan base.

Another reply, to PlayStation's Tomb Raider post, compared subscribing with owning. The poster's price is their own claim, which we did not check.

You can follow the platform on the PlayStation topic page.

The rest of the board

Nintendo rose 3.8 points and held #1 (77.6 → 81.4). Its sentiment was 85.7% positive, and its top topic was the Ocarina of Time remake on Switch 2. Price also came up: in Nintendo's latest financial report, president Shuntaro Furukawa said the company wasn't looking at changing the Switch 2's price again. That describes its position in early November, not a promise about the future. More on the Nintendo topic page.

Steam rose 5.8 points to #2 (67.5 → 73.3). Its leading topic was Epic Games naming SteamOS among the Linux distributions it plans to support with its launcher, which is still in preview. Sale chatter and concern about the number of AI-generated releases filled out the rest. More on the Steam topic page.

Xbox lost 11.6 points and dropped from #2 to #3 (74.2 → 62.6). Its talk was 71.4% positive, with GTA VI pre-install timing and fans sharing setups for the Xbox 25th anniversary. Its one negative topic was posts reporting a price rise for Xbox Cloud Gaming hours in Brazil after a promotion ended.

What we couldn't verify

• Why PlayStation fell. The Vibe Score measures mood, not causes. The perks and discs were what fans were talking about while the score dropped, which doesn't prove they were the reason.
• How widely the perks are disliked. IGN and GamesRadar both report complaints from fans, but neither measures how many feel that way, and the posts here are individual reactions.
• Whether the perks will expand. We found no announcement that they will reach other countries.
• Claims in individual posts. Some posts in this snapshot made unsourced claims about budgets, sales and releases, and we did not rely on them.

What's next for PlayStation on the board

PlayStation has swung between first and last since November 5, so a low score here doesn't say much about the next one. Vote for who won today's console war on the Console Wars dashboard, see how the score works, and check back after the next snapshot.