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walsufnir on 24 September 2014
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Mike_L said:
Mr Puggsly said:
MoHasanie said:
Mr Puggsly said:
17 million is massive. The X1 appeals to core gamers so that subscription number should remain high in the coming years.

I thought it would be higher. We always assumed it was around 25m. How does this compare to PS Plus? 

When PS4 released Sony said PS Plus grew about 400%. So I'd guess between 3 - 4 million.


Now you're making stuff up. PS4 launch brought a 90% increase in PS Plus subscriptions and more than half of PS4 owners are PS Plus suscribers.

More than half of PS4 owners = at least 5.5

5.5 mill = 90% increase

 

Based on this the actual number of paying PS Plus subscribers could very well be around 11.6 mill as 5.5 mill/90*100 (subscribers before PS4 launch) + 5.5 (subscribers joined after launch) = 11.6 (subscribers in total).

 

Since then there have been an increase due to Driveclub becoming free for subscribers in 2 weeks and an increase due to Destiny launch which made PS4 sales go up 300% in eg. the UK. Some of those new PS4+Destiny owners might want to play online. Just a hunch :)


But we don't know how many of these keep PS+ so numbers could also drop, especially if many stop playing Destiny.