A few days ago, Sony announced a price hike for PS Plus, and in their post, they seemingly made it clear that only the lowest tier would be affected. But that’s not the case, because every tier of PlayStation Plus just went up in price, averaging around 11%.

Here’s the new pricing structure.

The 12-month subscriptions seem mostly unaffected, but there have been reports from other countries that this isn’t the case. Australia is one example, with people discussing getting a price increase on the 12-month subs. Here in the UK, the 12-month subscriptions have not increased.

If we try to be super generous to Sony, their initial social media post discussed raising the price of PlayStation Plus, thus it could be said that they were talking about the entire service.

That’s the generous reading.

However, the post also included specific details about how much PlayStation Plus Essential was going up by, and thus it seems pretty fair for any reader – myself included – to draw the conclusion that only the lowest tier was the victim.

To put it simply, this seems like some rather crappy communication from a company that has no excuses for crappy communication, considering they have entire departments devoted to issuing press releases and updates.