PlayStation Plus Premium PSN Account – GLOBAL

Read this before paying the Premium difference

Premium’s headline feature is cloud streaming: playing a game that runs on Sony’s servers instead of your console. It needs a fast, stable connection with low latency, held steady for the whole session.

On most connections in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal or Kenya, it will not be usable. The picture will break up, the controls will lag, and you will stop trying after twenty minutes.

We are telling you this on the product page because it is the main reason people pay for Premium and then regret it. If streaming is why you are here, take Extra instead and spend the difference on something you will use.

The real reasons to take Premium

Two of them, and both are worth something.

The classics catalogue: games from the original PlayStation, PS2, PSP and PS3, downloadable rather than streamed. If you grew up on those machines, this is a library you cannot easily assemble any other way.

Game trials: a few hours of a major new release before deciding whether to buy it. At fifty to eighty dollars a game, one avoided purchase a year covers a good part of the upgrade.

Everything from the lower tiers

Premium includes what Extra and Essential give you: online multiplayer, the monthly games, 100 GB of cloud saves, store discounts, and the catalogue of several hundred downloadable titles.

It is an account, not a code

You receive login details for a PlayStation Network account that already carries the subscription. It is not refundable once sent, and changing its region or attaching a payment method can lock it.

To play on your own profile, sign in to the purchased account on your console and enable console sharing and offline play. Every profile on that console then gets the benefits, with your own trophies and saves intact. Monthly games are the exception and must be claimed on the subscription account itself.

Paying without a credit card

Sony wants a card registered in the account’s country. Here the payment goes through the mobile wallet you already use, straight from your phone.

We accept MTN MoMo, Orange Money, Airtel Money, Moov Money, Wave, M-Pesa, Telecel Cash, AT Money, Free Money, Vodacom, Tigo and Halotel, depending on where you are. Fourteen countries are covered, and PayPal and card payments work everywhere else. Pick your country at checkout and you only see the wallets that work there, with the price in your local currency.

Common questions