PS Plus should generally be a rather lucrative service for Sony. After all, the subscription numbers have grown steadily with every quarter since the introduction now - at least until 2021. There were for the first time in decline in and that is probably not a single outlier, because now the numbers have dropped for the second time in a row.
PS Plus numbers fall, but Sony is not worried
In a new quarterly report, Sony lists the numbers for PS Plus. Accordingly, the subscription service for the fourth quarter 2021 (which ends on March 31, 2022) records a total of 47.4 million subscriptions. Compared to Q4 2020, the numbers have dropped slightly, here they were still 47.6 million subscribers.
Although this is not a trouble decline, the second time that the numbers are falling. Most recently, they went down to 46.3 million in Q1 2021, but also rose again afterwards. The numbers of active users of the PlayStation Networks also show these fluctuations, here it was 106 million in Q4 2021 (compared to 109 million in Q4 2022.)
As Sony's Chief Financial Officer Hiroki Totoki now explains in a call (via VGC), the fluctuating numbers in 2021 are also due to the fact that the 2020 demand was particularly high because many people were at home through the pandemic. Nevertheless, he sees this as a positive development:
In the medium term, I don't worry about PS Plus. I am sure that the high level will continue to be interested. That is my positive view.
new PS Plus should drive up numbers again
So Sony is therefore not worried, after all, the subscription service remains stable even with slight fluctuations. In the third quarter of 2021, he even reached a maximum of 48 million users. And Sony promises a lot from the revised PS Plus subscription, after all, PS Plus and PS now users should be brought together here. According to Totoki, the service should grow steadily and we should have "high expectations" to the new PS Plus.
All information about the new subscription model that will go live in Germany in June can be found here. If you want to know what happens to your existing membership and how you upgrade, you can read this here:
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The game library of the new service in particular could bring more stable numbers again, after all, subscribers are less dependent on the monthly range of free games. The coming months will probably show whether this assumption is true.
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