Sony lost around 300,000 PlayStation Plus subscribers in the quarter ending 30th June, with 33.9 million users maintaining an active membership, compared to 34.2 million earlier in the year. It’s not exactly a significant decrease, but considering one of the company’s primary goals is to retain subs, it won’t be overjoyed with these results.
Of course, there are numerous reasons that could be attributed to the decline. Fortnite, for example, is the biggest multiplayer game in the world right now – and it doesn’t require an active PS Plus membership in order to be played online, unlike on the Xbox One. There’s also the simple fact that less big games deployed in the summer.
We doubt that Sony will be panicking too much unless this becomes a trend, and with Red Dead Redemption 2 right around the corner, alongside new Call of Duty and Battlefield titles, we have a feeling subscriber numbers are going to be rosy going into the holidays. Which is good news for the Japanese giant, because it’s making an absolute fortune off subscriptions.
[source sony.net]
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Like the article says, f2p games like Fortnite don’t need PS Plus to play. But Sony is anti-consumer, amirite?
That's one way to guilt-trip me over not renewing my sub for now. XD But it's mostly other expenses getting in the way, and I do hope to get back on board before August IGC lineup expires.
I am no longer subscribed. I enjoyed the first year of my subscription due to Uncharted 4, BLOPS3, and Rocket League. But the second year I subscribed, I never even played online anymore.
As to the free games... If I care enough to put time into a game, I care enough to put money into it and will be eager to play it at release. PS+ games were always games that I already owned or didn't care enough to play and that's why I didn't already own them.
I cancelled mine about 6 months ago and have no regrets. There's just been no value in it for me recently, it used to be the discounts but I've been buying a bit less on PS4 recently since I got the Switch, and I don't play Destiny anymore.
I guess I'll need to get it back to try NMS Next, though.
@RogerRoger Yeah it's a good point.
To be fair in the last quarter there has been a lack of big multiplayer games so that will have contributed. But I don't think Sony will be too worried, the next CoDs, Fifas and Battlefields will be here soon plus Red Dead's online service will be huge.
I'm literally only keeping my PS+ subscription to keep playing TLOU MP. Every other MP sucks, and the free ones, of course, don't require a subscription. For me, if TLOU PT. II's MP sucks and the originals servers get shut down, that's when I'll let my subscription expire.
I only use it for MHW... although I go for the yearly thing...
mine's going to waste to be honest.. i don't really buy in digital sales, so i don't make big savings, i think i've downloaded 3 PS+ games in 4 years, and there's no online game that's appealed to me since ages ago. i'll probably not renew when it expires, but i said that last year then calved when i got an extra year for £28.
Renewd about 3 months ago so I could add the free games to my list but so far I've wasted my money because I hardly play online at all. When it expires I won't bother any more as I play single player games mostly
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