PS Plus Subscriber Count Reaches an Impressive 47.4 Million

Great numbers, I think the PS+ collection on PS5 has been a fantastic addition and a good way to catch up an great games you might have missed which is R&C & Bloodborne for me!

If only... If only.... Online was free...

@themightyant anecdotal I know, but my PSN account was brand new with my PS5, and I signed up for ps+ a day later. This is my first non-Nintendo console.

I've also ended up buying the fallout 4 goty after getting sucked in by the standard edition from the collection. The only other games I've bought so far are Borderlands 3 (which I play with my brother-in-law who has a PS4), HZD and Metro Exodus. I haven't played the latter two yet.

I had a PS4 for a few years but never had PS Plus. The collection was definitely a deciding factor for me signing up after being lucky enough to get a PS5 and seeing the other games I had missed out on every month. Sold my PS4 cheap to a family member and threw in all the physical copies of the collection games I already had so has worked out pretty well.

I unsubscribed over a year ago but not because of value reasons, I just don’t have time to play the damn games!

Wait half of PSN accounts have an active PS+ subscription? That's amazing if true.

I only have 1 PS+ but have 3 PSNs of my own. My sister also has 1- so my household is a 1 in 4. I imagine there's multiple people like me, especially because of the Ubisoft Turkish PSN issue.

Am I missing something because that % seems absurdly high?

PS+ is really showing its worth on this new platform.
Destruction Allstars is a good little game and Control has really impressed.
Keep it up, Sony.

@themightyant I really don't see how that is misleading? It's just presenting a statistic, that's all. We all knew it was going to be high.

Time for a new level of psplus, psplus platinum subs, which is just psnow renamed with no mention of streaming. Oh and make it available worldwide like psplus

Great news but I wish they would invest some of that cash into improving the PS store and other services.

Imagine how popular PS+ could be if they incorporated PS Now and Movies/TV shows etc. It’s time.

@themightyant PS+ is up 1.5M subscribers from Sept 2020.

They are adding great variety and new games. Bugsnax, Fallguys, Destruction all-stars to name a few. And excellent AAA games to go along with the Indies. Definitely the best its ever been and you can build a very good game library with PS PLUS. Also the PS PLUS collection is great for newcomers. So yh there new subs are well earnt imo. Let's hope they keep the same quality going forward.

That 87% is impressive, baring in mind you can share online , monthly games and purchases with another console (same gen) via activating primary with the plus account.

I have two PS4 and PS5 and do this so we don’t have to buy Plus for second user.

So it will never be 100%

@fR_eeBritney I feel that is the next step Sony has a massive library of films. They could also offer discounts and add a few new films for streaming exclusively on PS Plus.

@themightyant How is it misleading if its factual. Your fighting in an argument that you can't win mate.

Cool psplus been amazing the last couple of months.word up son

@themightyant the figure of active PS5 users with PS Plus is misleading, but only in the sense that it's much higher than 87%. There are thousands and thousands of PS5s across the world that just sitting there not being bought because people are pricing them at £900+ but they still count as being sold.

@Shadow_Beast
Even if Microsoft did start charging I think Sony would of come along a done it not that far later. Nothing comes for free so it was enevitable that it would cost as online got bigger. Don't think you can fully blame Microsoft.

And they still tell us that gamepass is the best value with just 18 million subscribers in a way bigger customer pool including xbox pc and mobile.

With all the games offered in that poorly named PS+ Collection - poorly named b/c I subscribe PS+ but have NO WAY to add them to my library, so they simply aren't PS+ games, they should rightly be called something like PS5 Ambassador Collection - I don't see why you would have PS5 and not have PS+, the only exception being the lack of broadband.

@themightyant I get all your reasoning that early adopters including myself have PS Plus but the fact is still factual. Obviously when there's more units in the world and the PS5 freely available in the market. It makes sense for the numbers to go down.

Impressive numbers, but they're likely to decrease once more players get a PS5. Gotta say, though, PS+ is being quite strong this year!

Btw, Destruction All Stars will remain available for free until April 6th, so it's likely that it'll be a part of March's offerings as well.

@themightyant specifically it's selection bias. Everyone should read "How to lie with statistics", it was required reading for my undergraduate degree, and makes it clear how easy it is to skew a narrative without saying anything objectively false.

PushSquare's reporting of this is naive, but it's exactly what Sony bank on releasing vanity metrics like this. It's exactly what the studio I worked at did while DAU went down the toilet and management laid off round after round of employees. Sony aren't in any trouble, it's just worth pointing out that releasing cherry-picked statistics will never tell the full story.

@themightyant Nothing misleading about these are the numbers.

@JapaneseSonic Some people are wired that way. If you want misleading statistics look at digital versus physical where they take the digital only in account.

I've had PS plus for years now, and I've nearly cancelled it a few times, but now with the PS5 collection and the latest games its seems best value its ever been, especially if you get it in a sale and then get vouchers at a discount. £32 I paid for the year!

well rather than argue about stats id just like to say i picked up PS+ a few days ago and am enjoying my first playthrough of GOW ( awesome ), great value all round, especially on PS5..anyway sorry to interrupt..the argument can commence..

I started my PS Plus subscription in either 2018 or 2019, i am not really sure, but I am going to guess 2019. So far I have no complaints about the service even though I am sure people subscribed to this service since the PS3 will say it has gone down in value, but I am happy with it and have added to my current subscription. It runs out until 2022 and i might add a couple of years to it since you can get it cheap if you know where to look.

Going on 11 years as a PS Plus subscriber I have never felt PS Plus when subscribed and looked at by the year was not a great value. I have only paid full price 1 or 2 years out of the 11 years. I have got it free with reward points for 3-4 years.

I've had a PS4 since launch. I've never signed up for PS Plus. I can't justify the cost unless I find a multiplayer game I'm interested in playing regularly. No, the free monthly games aren't enough to justify the cost for me.

BUT GAMEPASS

@themightyant way ahead of you: https://psnprofiles.com/theheadofabroom

Might return to GoW for another NG+ run at some point to see how the patch has affected things, but I'm tempted to leave that until the month before the next game releases. Plenty of games to be getting on with!

@zebric21 There are over a 100 million active Xbox Live users.

Thats around 2-4 billion pounds per year. Thats mad. Ps plus alone

@themightyant yeah, I had a great time with GoW, especially the Valkerie Queen, and the Workshop. It's just that after two or three playthroughs you come to need a break

I enjoyed TLoU, but had no interest in the trophies, they all seemed like make-work rather than an encouragement to experience more of the game. I also despise multiplayer trophies on a primarily single player game. You might be able to see that I bounced off The Last Guardian hard, despite how much I wanted to like it, whereas I'm waiting for Android remote play to support the DualSense before I continue Persona because it feels very much like a handheld game, and it's weird playing it on a 4k TV.