It is the reason. Sweden has a 25% sales tax on digital goods and services. Without tax, Sweden's Ps+ is actually 3 dollars cheaper after the price increase.

Sure, but that has nothing to do with your original comment. You were saying that Sweden's PS+ was raised above US PS+ prices, but they aren't, it's just the tax which makes it more expensive.

Yes! xD

while you might love consoles and bashing them, it would make more sense to actually find out why that's happening since this isn't the way people get those tiny patches, takes less than a minute on my line to update the ps4 firmware so you must have an issue in how you are connecting to the service, could suggest running tracert to the Sony server in your area and see if you're isp is at fault on this?

But if you want to just sit and think that everyone waits 2 hours for 300mb on their ps4... I mean, I guess I can see the fun in that.

its kinda sad that sony is charging to play online because these kind of things will going to stop ps4 to reach its max sales potential in emerging markets. pc is very strong in those markets bc no online play sub and games are cheaper but the downside is pc games only available online.ps4 is selling fine now but it may hurt them in the long run because they depend on those markets more than microsoft and nintendo.

Really? Shifting the blame on the user when it's known that the servers are shit and have been since the PS3 era? Sorry, but that joke isn't funny and even less for an IT network professional.

Yeah it's probably because my ISP is a Sony hater and a PC fanboy because for some reason Steam and every single application on Windows uses the full 50MBit/s.

If Sony is unable to provide enough servers in central Europe for the biggest City in Germany, that makes it even worse. Though I think it's more likely that they're throttling the speed for older software to save even more money.

Any hyperbolic or dramatic post here? Zero? That's the spirit, guys! It's Sony after all, we gamers are safe under their wings.

Do you lose your PS3 digital library when you move over to PS4?

Tweet your frustration of the price increase to Shuhei Yoshida.....@yosp

Sony needs to see this... price increase for a 4 years shovelware indies.


We dont want PS Now, dont shove up services that we dont want up our throats because such services is not doing well...

Bruh the tax isn't Sony's fault. What Sony is charging is less in Sweden, than in the US, but Sweden's tax makes the price higher. I'm sure you understand this lol