How big is the PlayStation Network? Well, it’s $12.48 billion big, according to data crunched by ResetEra via Sony’s latest sales report. The Japanese giant raked in an eye-watering $9.28 billion in 2019 through the PlayStation Store, with the sale of full games, add-ons, and microtransactions. It then made a further $3.20 billion through subscriptions like PlayStation Now and PlayStation Plus.
As reported earlier in the year, the latter has achieved a record high of 38.8 million active subscribers, which is roughly a third of the PlayStation 4’s install base. It’s no wonder the organisation is planning a swift transition to the PlayStation 5, as the PS Store has become something of a cash cow this generation. And it’s only going to get bigger.
[source sony.net, via resetera.com]
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They got so much money they are almost as rich as you Sammy.
All that money must had been spent on securing the titan game franchise for PS Plus that is Monster Energy Supercross.
@Shirayuki Because Microsoft started it waaay back on Xbox and Sony/Nintendo saw that this was easy money. The End.
Congrats for sony, I hope they use that money to make a really good console with ps5
@Shirayuki yep...@IonMagus just said it. And it made me less and less interested in Online. Yea they'd spout some crap like free 24 games a year, I don't really care I'd go get what I really want in a sale. Free online is one thing I loved my PS3 for but nooo they had to go copy MS. You can tell if Devs like Rockstar had their own way they'd make online free considering the countless times they make it free with every huge update.
I just read an article about how the PS business is slowing much faster than expected. So which is correct?
that's great, why then did we get given 3 games in ps plus last month that are 8/10/12 years old, this is PS4 right? Disgraceful.
@Shirayuki greed, greed, greed, same reason why Pokémon comes as two games and they charge all players 16 quid a year to store Pokémon on a server when the entire games players could store all their Pokémon entirely on one small server and it would cost Nintendo peanuts to run, literal peanuts, always looking for the edge to charge nonsense fees for literally nothing, 5 dollars of popcorn at the cinema probably costs 10 cents.
That would be the reason why they are keen to get PS Now and PSN running on multiple devices and across platform.
@Shirayuki Tbf at least you dont need PS Plus for Free to Play Games on PS 4
@Shirayuki Yes you need Xbox Gold for every online Game, including F2P Games
PSN is $12.48 billion big.
Just the ADS on Youtube are $15 billion big.
So people are paying more for ads than they are to buy games.
Which makes ya wonder how many of those ads are getting us to buy games? hmmm...
https://www.cnet.com/news/alphabet-beats-earnings-says-youtube-ad-revenue-was-15b-in-2019/
@rjejr well, corporations are paying YouTube more for ads than consumers are paying Sony for games etc on PSN. Not an apples vs apples comparison really. Useful for scale I suppose.
@Barryburton97 "Useful for scale I suppose"
Just that really. Hard to wrap ones head around $ in the billions.
@Shirayuki I try to justify Online Play needing payment on consoles. At least on PS4. Steam, as you may know already, has very poor anti-cheating systems. And it's not their fault. It's a PC, it's open-source and people always find a way to go around the anti-cheating systems.
But on PS4, at least in my experience, there have been no cheaters trying to ruin online games. To be honest, that alone is enough for me to be convinced that I'm getting something worthwhile in return. (Although there are F2P games, as others mentioned, that don't need PS plus and probably don't have cheaters either lol)
@rjejr blippi makes somewhere around 200k - 1.5 million a month from YouTube and he plays in a playground.
Hopefully this means they'll buy a new studio
@Shirayuki Consoles are "walled gardens." Unlike with PC, where you have a variety of options for services where you can buy your games from, you're stuck with the storefront and ecosystem provided by the manufacturer. And, since you're at their mercy, and they know from Microsoft's example that people are willing to pay to play games online, there's nothing stopping them from making you pay for online play. No company in its right mind is going to leave money on the table like that indefinitely.
@darksoul77 There are two kinds of people in this world, those who make videos on Youtube, and those who watch videos on Youtube.
@rjejr Billions of dollars is easy to imagine. It only takes 1,000 million to get a billion.
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