Would you be more inclined to purchase a game on PS4 if it has free online, than requiring a subscription to play online on another platform?

If you say yes to the former. Then that's how it helps them.

Get ready for the Playstation Swap™.

PlaystationFourth™

PlaystationSwippitySwappity™

PlaystationSnap™

We have seen how much people didn't care for PS+ when it wasn't mandated and how much they subscribed to it after being mandated (with revenue equivalent to one game sold per year with the cost being maintenance and what they pay to put free games) and how little impact it had on the sales of HW and SW, so nope, free online wouldn't help Sony.

I think this is being taken a bit out of contexto.

He's talking about how Switch can hinder Sony in relation to exceeding fiscal objectives - and more specifically, during the Holidays -, not on the long run.


But on the long run, i honestly don't see why Sony should worry a whole lot.
They have everything going for them: image/perception; games, publishers.
If Sony could outmoney MS, Nintendo's not really a problema (specially western developers).

Competition is always a good thing, means high quality games, price cuts...

Only if you're not already paying for the subscription for other games on that console anyway. But regardless with PS+ having 26.4m subscribers (as of december 2016) it's a major factor in PlayStation's recent record breaking profits. It's here to stay.

That's around 1.5 Billion dollars a year of revenue from PS+.

Holy shit, only half of PS4 owners have PS plus?

Playstation live on the go with the entire library seems nice. But since I don't care for gaming on the go I would prefer Sony to make homeconsoles.

Yeah sounds about right,  it's an increase on last-gen, even with 80m sales 360 only ever reached a peak of around 20m gold subs. 

There's 3 ps4 consoles in my household, only one PS+ subscription though ofc.