Sony raising PS Plus price by 33%

[dharh]

VAMatt said:

dharh said:

This is about the most basic of services. If charging above cost, so much so, that it causes more people to outright not buy a PSN sub at all I think there is a missing opportunity of long tail revenue and good will.

Back of the napkin math here but:

With ~47m PSN, ~6.1m Plus Extra, and ~8m Plus Premium subs on a potential install base of ~40M(PS5)+~58.5M(PS4 117.09M/2)=98.5M, I think there is a large audience of could be subs that would willing to pay cost+some small extra to be able to play online. Subs are flat, the price is going up. I think this inevitably leads to less subs per the install base. NOT offsetting the costs with a basic bare bone package inevitably loses money.

I obviously have no idea of the numbers. But, presumably Sony has better information than you or I do, and they have determined that this is the right price to charge. I'm sure they didn't just pull it out of their ass. 

I might not be right, but beancounters aren't always right either. We also may never know the impact since I don't think SONY shows revenue by PSN.