At some point PlayStation Plus will peak, but the subscription service is still on an upwards trajectory. Sony hit a new active member milestone in its latest financial report, confirming it now has 45.9 million paying users. That’s up from 45.0 million earlier in 2020, and 36.9 million the same time last year, showing enormous growth late into the PlayStation 4’s lifecycle.
The PlayStation Network had 107 million monthly active users for the three month period ending 30th September, which is slightly down compared to the 114 million it managed during its previous quarter. That’s likely because lockdowns around the globe convinced more consumers to stay at home and play their consoles earlier in the year.
Sony will be hoping that it can continue to convince PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 owners to subscribe to PS Plus, and it will use new initiatives like the PS Plus Collection to do that. What does the manufacturer need to do to maintain your membership? Let us know in the comments section below.
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And still we get NFS Payback and Vampyr... ^^
"What does the manufacturer need to do to maintain your membership?"
They still haven't convinced me to purchase a subscription, let alone convince me it is worth keeping once I am theoretically subscribed.
50 million active subscribers must mean they are doing something right, but eh...
@Cornaboyzzz Yeah, but there's no harm in shining the spotlight on some of the smaller AA games too.
PS+ ain't going anywhere, despite the regular sniping. Suits me much better than gamepass would, I'm subbed up until 2023 thanks to stacking them when the really good offers are on.
@Shepherd_Tallon Vampyr is already on PS Now, and NFS is an EA game from 2017 packed with microtransactions... They definitely can do better than that.
@Shepherd_Tallon I agree, would love more of the great indies that are out there to pop up as ps+ games occasionally, like they did at the start of the gen.
Although I guess thanks to psn sales they're often very very cheap anyway. I stick the ones I want on my psprices notification list and wait for the lovely email surprises ☺️
Just bought 1 year psplus for only $30 on cdkeys 😃
I hope sony make different tier of psplus with all of psnow games (no streaming) and make it available worldwide since most country still haven't got good internet speed to stream games.
More interested in ps now due to the far superior games catalogue provided. Will probably get plus for a few months from jan when my now runs out to play the 3 games in the Collection I’m interested in and let the Now catalogue grow further.
@Cornaboyzzz
They did give us Journey and Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection in April during the early stages of COVID-19. That was on top of Uncharted: A Thief's End and Dirt Rally 2.0 as the April Plus games. Essentially 6 top notch games in one month.
Some months aren't as great as others, but let's see what they have in store for November.
Amazing. It is ta great service to play online for sure. I just got another 12 months for $32.
Free games each month are a bonus. Usually have something new to play anyway - they just sit in my collection.
Except DIRT 2.0, that I played a bunch
As an attach rate, that's not a million miles off 50% of PS users picking up the premium sub. That's very impressive. I'd love to know how Game Pass fares by comparison.
@SegaBlueSky It's much nearer 42% of active users but still really impressive.
Game Pass was last reported at 15 million about a month ago but that is PC as well. Still a really good total number for a premium service and it's increasing fast. (I think PS now last reported at around 2.2 million for comparison)
Amazing numbers. I think Sony should just roll up PS+ and PSnow into one higher tier package. GP is awesome because of MS first party day one deals, but that's just the months when something really good from Xbox is coming out. PS+ usually is pretty good to me, and they always have good digital sales after games are just a few months old. Everyone loves to talk about value (which is subjective) but PS+ has been pretty valuable to me.
All I know is if this service held that much value people wouldn't wait around for half off sales and stack years in advance. I'm assuming these discounted subscriptions don't impact Sony but I'm just saying, I think most people wouldn't mind paying the full amount if the service was really worth it.
@deathaxe Agreed will be interesting to see the GP numbers post X|S. I expect 25 million within the year.
@Omnistalgic A LOT of people only want PS+ for multiplayer for Fifa, Destiny, COD etc. and wouldn't want the extra cost. I'm not one of them...
I don't play online
@zupertramp wtf are you talking about go to an Xbox thread and leave us alone
@2cents did you like, forget your medication today?
@zupertramp Why yes, they definitely did.
@jbreez00 I really shouldn't even have gone there (mental illness isn't something to lean on for derisive comebacks) It's just this idea that I'm some kind of Xbox fanboy had me feeling particularly indignant. For what it's worth I own a fat PS3, a slim PS3, an OG PS4, a PS4 slim, a TLoU2 Pro, I pay for two Plus subscriptions, and I don't even know which Xbox is which but yeah... I'm a MS fanboy.
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