I have a hunch, could be completely wrong, that they planned on bundling Crunchyroll with PS+ Premium but held back because of the Activision acquisition.
In the call, they did kinda blame the lack of new big games in the service but more importantly said there wasn't any promotional deals.
Yeah, at the peak it seems 800k unique ps now users and total unique subscribers was 48.2m
That's true.
So how can you be adamant that they are making a profit on the disk unit, when there hasn't been a comment for over a year.
Sony said in the call that they are getting enough chips and plan to exceed the 18M target for this FY. For the next FY they have a 23M target.
A few minutes ago was 24.53M
No one did.
I didn't see it, I thought they must have responded to me with it but somehow I missed it. :/
It's weird, I thought they were going to skyrocket the number of subs but doesn't seem to be the case. What they increased but not much is the related revenue, since some players may have migrated to higher tiers:
VGchartz are sell through (sold to consumers) estimates as of October 15, Official Shipments (sold to Retailers) are 25.00 million as of 30 September. They line up quite well since there is always going to be more Shipments than sell through due to consoles being in transit or on store shelves.
They said to be confident to exceed their 18M target for this fiscal year and mentioned to have a 23M target for the next one (FY2029), which also mentioned that PS5 will outsell PS4 launch aligned during FY2023.
So unlike last year they are stockpiling units for the holiday quarter. Last years holiday was 3.9 million but this year I think 8 million is doable maybe even 8.5 million.
Yep, that's because Sony/PS has been investing aggressively into the gaming divisions: acquisitions (Bungie and Haven) and their operating costs, games with even bigger budgets, more partnerships, more publishing agreements, PS+ revamp content acquisition, new studios (Malaysia and VASG), organic growth (SSM's 2nd team, ND's 3rd team), etc.
That stats only tells how much people played at the same time. Doesn't tell the sales.
Vgchartz is guess estimate.
One thing that has surprised me about vgchartz recently is there adjustments to their guessesb when real data comes out isn't as crazy as it use to be in the past.
Yes, they are, its #1 followed by Entertainment, Technology & Services segment
What? what am I getting wrong here, there is no way this counts for Horizon 2 and GT7?
Why would it skyrocket? PS+ tier system was mainly designed for the existing users anyway.
Because it has hundreds of games including a lot of great ones and now most of them (all except the streamed PS3 ones) are available worldwide for download unlike before, because PS Now was limited to a dozen countries or so and now PS Plus Extra or Deluxe are available worldwide (or almost).
Front seat or back seat?
It won't, without marketing.
Well, after 12 years PS Plus has now almost 50M, around half of the PSN MAU. Maybe anybody interested on a sub and money to pay it already got it.
Look at psnow.
Since then the prices of the components, shipments and the dollar skyrocketed so maybe went back to be sold at a loss, party compensated with the $50 increase.
Sony are the most successful in game subscriptions for consoles. MP is free for F2P games and a handful other games. According to a Sony poll the top reason to subscribe to PS Plus (before the merge with PS Now) were the games included in the sub.
If those games were the reason why ps+ was successful, then psnow wouldn't have been at 3m.
right, lol
