The console war is over

[DonFerrari]

yvanjean said:

DonFerrari said:

Do you have source for XBL 90M MAU? Last I remember it was about 50M, with Gold being possibly 50% of that.

PS+ have like 45M, but PSN MAU was like 110M beggining of 2020 if I`m not wrong.

https://www.vg247.com/2020/04/30/xbox-live-user-numbers-2020/#:~:text=Animal%20Crossing-,Xbox%20Live%20has%2090%20million%20monthly%20users,hundreds%20of%20thousands%20testing%20xCloud&text=Microsoft%20recently%20revealed%20Xbox%20Live,almost%2090%20million%20monthly%20players.

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SAN MATEO, Calif., January 6, 2020 - Following another year of successful holiday sales, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) today announced that PlayStation™Network’s (PSN) December 2019 monthly active users have reached 103 million^*1, demonstrating that gamers worldwide are enjoying PlayStation®’s offerings. Additionally, the PlayStation®4 (PS4™) console has sold through more than 106 million^*2 globally, and the cumulative sales of PS4 software titles from retailers and PlayStation™Store (PS™Store) have reached 1.15 billion^*3 as of December 31, 2019.

Both numbers can be miss leading because active users do not really mean paying users. Sony playing hardball with only supporting PS5 at the start of next-generation might hurt their subscription numbers compare to Microsoft who's expected to actually grow the numbers of subscriptions with Adding Xcloud and supporting the older consoles for the next two years.

Very good, so the total "subs" is very near, the major difference being the paying subs where we know PS+ have about 40-45M while MS doesn`t give the number of Gold, but considering only on console it is needed for multiplayer it probably is 25-30M.