New PS Plus gift cards are a confusing mess

techradar.com:

Sony has rolled out its new PS Plus gift cards at retailers but has somehow managed to botch the job.

In the runup to its revamped PS Plus service, Sony seemed to be pulling its PS Now and old PS Plus gift cards from stores. With the rush to snap up cards and stack them for discounted subscriptions, the move to whip them off retailers' shelves made sense.  

Now that the overhauled PS Plus has rolled out, the gift cards are popping up on online storefronts. But Sony has either done a really shoddy job of it or hasn't given retailers the proper info because the listings are causing some serious confusion. God help any hapless parents striking out into unfamiliar gaming territory to buy one.

Spotted by Push Square(opens in new tab), the new cards seem to be a combination of straight-up PS Store credit, gift cards explicitly for PS Plus membership, and PS Store gift cards that are clearly supposed to be for additional membership tiers that have no mention of PS Plus anywhere on them.

If you head over to Amazon UK(opens in new tab), you can see the listings and how confusing they are. You've got your PS Store gift cards in the usual denominations – so £10, £15, £30, etc. The usual fare. Then there's a very helpfully labeled trio of cards for one, three, and 12 months of PS Plus Essential membership. So far, so reasonable. 

Scrolling down, though, a randomly priced £84 PS Store gift card rears its head. Bit strange. But that's the UK price for a 12-month mid-tier PS Plus Extra subscription ($99.99 / £83.99 / AU$133.70). There's also a £32 gift card on the list as well which covers the £31.99 ($39.99 / AU$53.50) quarterly cost of the same tier's membership.

ShopTo(opens in new tab) seems to have the same issue with its listings, and