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aurelounet on 15 August 2013
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sales2099 said:
pokoko said:
sales2099 said:
pokoko said:

What do you mean?  No subscription numbers were announced, were they? 

Basic math based on the approximate revenue generated gives us a rough estimate of 2.8 million suscribers.

Personally, that seems spot on when it's an optional feature, marketed to a userbase that prides itself on free multiplayer.

That and the service is only a couple years old.

No, that math doesn't work when you consider that PS+ doubled subscribers after E3.  Actually, even beyond that, PS+ membership likely spiked again at the end of the year.  Because of that, even though membership more than doubled, it's mostly going to be back heavy, with the average contribution from most members being way under the yearly amount.  Your figure will only give us the least members possible and is probaby way off the actual number.

Also, a LOT of people got a free month or more during the holiday season when they bought a PS3 or Vita.  That's what I did.  So, even though I became a member in 2012, I didn't pay until 2013.

Considering we had no numbers of it "doubling" after E3......that only means the numbers were that much lower.

You can't dismiss math. Im sorry it doesn't work like that. Divide 2012 revenue of $140 million and you have 2.8 million suscribers in December 2012. This isn't a exact figure but a estimate based on whatever information we have been given. Im sorry but you shouldn't be defending this because you don't agree with the answer.

You say whatever hypotheticals you want, I just did some simple math. Less then 3 million subs on a optional service that is only 2 years old isn't bad per-se, it just means it has a long way to go to pull Live Gold numbers.


Yes, math doesn't work like that. Now your assumption is not absolutely correct as you don't take into account the increase of subscribers during the year.

So, the 2.5 millions of accounts you are taking for granted in 2012 is an average over 2012 and not the number they really had at the end of the year, wich is the number interresting us.

During the sony conference at E3, they announced that their number of accounts increased by 144%. So if true, that means that the PS+ accounts were 144% more on 01/01/2013 than on 01/01/2012

 

so : 5000000 = 1 X + 2.44 X

x (the number of accounts on 01/01/2012) = 1.45 millions

and 2.44 X (the number of accounts they might have on 01/01/2013) = 3.55 millions

By now, they might have around 5 millions accounts if the increase is the same, or 4 if it's slowind down.

Actually, I don't really care, but I do love mathematics.