We weren't expecting too much to come out of Sony's CES 2020 press conference, but as it turns out, Jim Ryan took to the stage to share some juicy details on PlayStation and what the future holds. The PlayStation Network is going to play a large part in all of that, and the SIE president shared on stage that the infrastructure now boasts of more than 100 million monthly active users.
103 million monthly active PSN users to be exact, with over a third of them subscribed to the PlayStation Plus service. 38.8 million users claim their two free PlayStation 4 games per month along with the ability to play online multiplayer titles -- a number that has increased since our last update on the subscriber count. In March 2019, Sony reported that more than 36 million had signed up to the service while the overall total of monthly PSN users was sitting at roughly 94 million. This latest update represents an increase of nine million users across the board -- something PlayStation will surely be proud of.
Are you one those users subscribed to PlayStation Plus? Share your thoughts on the service in the comments below.
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"103 million monthly active PSN users to be exact"
What exactly does it mean to be an active psn user?? Is it someone who has an internet connection that uses the ps store?? Can anyone clarify this for me? I know what a ps plus user is as I am one as well, just not sure what an active psn user is
@NYJetsfan123 Probably someone who's logged on within the past month or so.
This is why it wouldn't be a good move to do tiered Plus subscription anymore cos they potentially would taking a large chunk of that revenue.
Why everyone wants crossplay with PS4.
I'd wager it also accounts for PS3 and Vita users. It's pretty vague
@AdamNovice
Logged on, meaning said person has a regular internet connection on the PS4??
If so, I bet the users without an internet connection would be quite the number as well.
@AdamNovice
Edit: I guess I'm a little slow! Just did the math. 106 million PS4 sales. 103 million active PS4 users. Roughly 3 million non active "PS4 users".... Disregard my previous reply!
38.8 million users of psplus.
And we get goat simulator. Yeeeeehaaaa.
@themcnoisy - let's face it, 90% of them only have ps+ for CoD/FIFA etc online play. when multiplayer was free on PS3, the number of PS+ subscribers was more like 3% than 33%.
38.8 million people are signed up for PlayStation Plus....correction, forced to sign up to psplus to be able to play online for games they already have paid for. and there is 64 million people not playing online out of those 103 million owners, now think about that, that is a lot of players not playing online and 'engaging'. its time to remove online gaming from the psplus and make it optional as it was on the ps3. so games with online gameplay are played more and longer, it will sell more games and more playstation consoles.
Good numbers. I'm fairly confident the reason the redemption rate on the free PS plus games is largely down to people already owning the titles, rather than them not bothering downloading them.
It literally takes 5 seconds of your day to add them to your library, no reason not to. Maybe one day you'll fancy giving it a try.
@TheBuzz We all lost the right to complain about this in 2002 when Xbox brought LIVE to the gaming table. The problem here is, this is what people want, otherwise they wouldn't be paying for it. I myself wouldn't dream of buying a game for online multiplayer, as it's the shallowest thing you can do with a game and no multiplayer game is worth more than $30 at most, but people continue to buy low effort titles at full price with Madden, CoD, and FIFA, so of course they'll excitedly pay for online access.
I am a PS+ subscriber however, not for the multiplayer, monthly games, or cloud service though despite that coming in handy a total of twice this generation, but for the deep discounts on games. I have two of every console in my home and gameshare (the proper way) so getting two copies for $7 or so is worth the $45/yr sub.
@TheBuzz I'm not subscribed to psplus as I profile share with my brother in law. Let's say if half of ps plus users do this with a mate or family member then number of online players increase. Have to have a way of getting around paying out ridiculous amounts for plus and digital games 😉
Wow. This is more than i was expecting.
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