Lol 46m subscribers would be insane. That's probably the number of accounts overall, or unique accounts.

OT: 7.9 is good. This number will surely jump a lot this holiday season. Possibly close to 15m early next year?

Ahh, gotchya.  I would say that is active XBLG members, not including Silver.  Would make sense.

When announced it was listed as active accounts so i would say its Silver included which is why i said it was unknown.  BK offered a source so we will say 17m Gold.

15m early next year seems a bit high. thats a 100% increase in 3 months.  My guess would be 10m.  THough there is often deals during the holiday that gives free subs with consoles so maybe, idk.  Multiplayer drives these subs so itll be relying on Destiny and Call of Duty this holiday for a substantial increase

7.9 million is terrific, a huge jump. And with the holidays coming, it will cross 10M easily.
Sadly, this means dob't hold your breath for AAA games on the service, Sony has absolutely no incentive to resort to that yet...

My sub expired in September, and with me playing single player games, I don't see adding to thise millions any time soon... Most likely not until The Division...

15m early next year, as in Jan, Feb or March or so. That's not a 100% increase btw (89%) and not 3 months either (4-6). Shortly after PS4 launched PS+ subscriptions jumped by 90%. With all the MP games and huge sales this holiday I don't see why it couldn't jump another almost 90% in a longer timeframe (4-6 months vs. 1.5 months last year)

^ That's precisely why I thought it would have more subscribers by now, but that is also why such jump isn't a crazy idea either.

Wow.

I was rounding up though i guess i should have said "about 100%".  So in 4-6 months then?   How much would you assume PS4 will have sold by then?  Right now we are spreading 7.9m with 3 devices, PS4, PSV, and PS3.  Its obvious the main driving factor right now is paid online for PS4 though so it would really be dependent upon PS4's attach ratio with PS+,  If we are expecing 15m that would be 7m.  And id say PS4 will easily sell 7m in 4-6m, probably more.  Lets hypothetically say PS4 has sold 20m by the end of december (not my prediction).  That would mean that PS4 will sell 7m from this point.  You would need a 100% attach rate of PS+ for it to achieve 15m.  Though that is only 2 months the next 2 moths after that will be considerably less than the November/December

Though i could be wrong id be surprised if it managed 7m new subscribers without losing any on top of that (whether bundled or paid for) in a matter of 4 months.

source? 

Both the PS+ and Live numbers are both a sad thing for humanity.