Xbox has around 17m Gold subscribers

[MoHasanie]

Mike_L said:

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 mill

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 :)

I don't think I agree with your math. The 90% increase was actually reported in January 2014. At that time, they had sold 4.2m PS4s. So, technically, that would mean that before PS4, there was around 1-2m PS+ subscribers. The last time we heard from Sony, they said that approximately half of PS4 owners have PS+, and at the time they had shipped 7m units. So using the latest info that we have, there are 3.5m PS4 PS+ subscriptions, bringing the total to around 5-6m in May.