The rather delayed PlayStation Plus 5th anniversary prints – it’s closer to the 6th anniversary now – should be popping through letter boxes any moment now. If you applied for one you should be receiving an email with the text below.
We have some great news – your personalised PlayStation Plus 5 year anniversary print is on its way to you. Shipping has already begun, so it should be with you very soon. In fact, it might have already arrived by the time this email is delivered.
We’d like to say a big thank you for your patience, and for five brilliant years of PlayStation Plus membership.
There’s also a small firmware update on the way but it doesn’t do anything special.
PS4 system software update 3.15 is coming tonight – it’s a minor update designed to improve system performance.
— PlayStation (@PlayStation) January 13, 2016
UPDATE: This is what they look like.
Source: Twitter
Jas-n
I missed one or two days so was except… bastards!
Youles
I’m looking forward to this but imagine it’ll be a disappointment. What can it show – the number of downloads I’ve made, money spent on the PS Store, trophies earned?!?
Crazy_Del
I agree with the trophies part but that would take SONY forever to go through every Plus Member.
Online stats is understandable as they have a server showing how many free games are being downloaded…. saying that surely they can get their downloads speeds better as they can track Plus Members? God I moss my old job as I am having a poor memory of how this works xD
Youles
I would have thought it would have been pretty easy (trophy data) as it was essentially for a full, uninterrupted 5-year period, so only needed to calculate the number at that date PS+ started, and then at the point of producing these – all the trophy data is on servers. But anyway, we now know what it includes. Will be interested to see my stats, hopefully it’s at home.
The fact that it was free, and framed, is a nice touch – can’t grumble at free stuff!
TSBonyman
How it isn’t possible to bring up all those stats at the mere press of a button on PS4 in this digital age is beyond me.
Forrest_01
Yep – Most likely situation is that they just do a dump from the database on a particular user. This can be excuted with a pretty simple query. All of this info (everything included in the print) will be held in one central location, so it should be pretty simple for them… In fact, it’s probably more work for them to jazz it up a bit than it is to actually obtain the information! :D
camdaz
Was there a preview of what it looks like, it was ages since they were first announced so can’t remember?
Crazy_Del
Looking forward to see mines hoping it arrives today. Dreading to see the numbers though as I rarely download a plus game due to already having it until 3 years ago when I lost my job. Been downloading every month lol
bunimomike
Love that one of the clearest words in the thumbnail is “DOWN”. Ha. :D
Spence1115
Got mine.
– 75 gaming hours on 1st most played monthly title.
– 2 hours online on PS4 (clearly not what I’m using it for…).
– 9 friends (Again, I don’t play online).
JR.
I thought they would look a bit more professional tbh. It looks like something you might get for winning a competition at Butlins.
I wonder if anyone got a certificate that said ‘number of friends… 0’ because that would be kinda mean haha
Lyts1985
Mine arrived today. Impressed that it came framed but I find some of the wording strange and don’t exactly understand what all the stats mean – for example; total gameplay across all monthly game titles? What exactly is that a total of? Games downloaded and actually played? Hours spent playing?
Nice for free though, definitely keeping it :-)