PlayStation Plus Reaches 7.9 Milllion Subscribers/PS4 Chinese Launch Early Next Year

[zumnupy10]

MoHasanie said:

zumnupy10 said:
It makes me think how many subscribers it would have if it was mandatory for online play since its beggining.

We could be talking about 20M subscribers by now.

Yeah that's certainly possible, maybe even more. Xbox Live has 17m right now, but at the 360's peak, I'm sure it was much more. Sony really made a huge mistake by not charging for online from the beginning. It could have really helped offset some of the huge losses from the PS3. 

I think Sony knew they were losing an oportunity to at least reduce their PS3 losses.   The thing is, I don't think they wanted to launch a $599 console + online fee in the market back in 2006.