Why? XBL Gold is very similar in number.

I couldn't think of a better comparison. Last time I checked, it was what ~36m gold members out of 81m consoles?

haha Not the ORDER 1886!! No MP whatsoever! Thank you based Sony.

But seriously, sony wtf.

Do you remember where you got the 36m from? I've only ever been able to find the total subscription numbers not gold by itself. I think they have over 50 million subscriber in total now.

Its possible that all early adopters are playing online. You Dont need Plus to play free to play games online. 

There were several threads about it. I made one too, I think.

2010: 12.5m subs http://news.techgenie.com/latest/12-5-million-subscribers-for-microsoft-xbox-live-gold/

The article also says that MS says "about half of total memberships are gold", meaning 26m regular.

late 2011: 35m total http://www.gizmofusion.com/2011/08/xbox-live-has-reached-35-million-subscribers/

late 2012: 46m total http://one8one.com/article619.php

Sometime in 2012, I believe Majornelson or one of those guys said 10% increases in xbl gold subscribers for the past two years. I once had a link for it, but cannot find it anymore. It's somewhere on vgc if you care to look. ie; google: site:vgchartz.com theprof00 xbl gold memberships

Then in 2013 april it's up to 50m.

Here's a link for video stats (which require xbl gold)
http://www.vg247.com/2013/09/20/42-of-xbox-live-subscribers-watch-30-hours-of-video-content-each-month/

This is late this past september.

I would say the number is something like 54m xbl accounts with 26m or so xbl gold, give or take a few million.

Regardless, the point is that xbl gold is roughly half or less than half.

Wow that is impressive! That's around 50% of all PS4 owners getting it. Xbox has supposedly a similar percentage paying for Gold but we haven't heard anything official from MS, but I think its lower than 40% paying for Gold. Just proves that Sony should have have put online gaming behind a paywall years ago,

Unfortunately that total number paying for PS plus is very low. I expected it to be much higher. So before PS4 there were only around 1 million subscribers paying on the ps3? That's really low. You'd think with all those free games, much more would have subscribed.

his assumptions are quiet off, for example he assumes most give a shit about gears being on PS4, when the franchise has run its course. 

Thanks useful to know :)

If they can maintain that ratio would be huge for game divisions viability.

I don't have it on the ps4 yet. I'm going to wait,until the library builds up some.