It’s great that finally have a hard number of PS Now subscribers. As the service gets rolled out in more territories that total should surpass 1 million.
On a side note I wonder how many subscribers Game Pass has in comparison
These numbers pretty much show that the revenue numbers in that first link were way off.
Even if you over estimate and say all 700,000 Now users are paying $20 a month, that's only 42 million a quarter. That's barely a 1/3 of what those estimates show.
I'm not sure who came up with that graph, but it looks like the numbers were made up based on what you shared.
I have seen saying this since that graph was released by Super Data who does not use official numbers. Sony is just now releasing numbers and Microsoft still has not released numbers for Game Pass so where did that graph get its numbers from? People here dont care if its fake, they will just keep posting it and these same people dont even use PS Now. LMAO
I highly doubt Xbox has ‘millions of subscribers’. It’s most likely PR talk for MS as they have nothing to back that up with. The revenue chart showed a breakdown of the various services based on revenue. MS has been practically giving the service away at a dollar for a month so I imagine a lot of people have been making new accounts and getting the one dollar offer month after month, each one counting as a new ‘subscriber’.
You can’t really believe any figures MS puts out there atm though, they pluck them from the sky.
I can believe they have millions of subscribers considering they often have $1 deals on the service every couple months. I'm sure that keeps a steady flow of new customers coming in.
I just resubbed for 3 months for a dollar again. Ive spent $3 for 6 months of gamepass. Millions means nothing for a revenue argument. Heck even a desirability argument is thin due to not knowing how many subs would completely cancel without $1 deals.
obviously not as much as PS Now being the newer service and less Xbox gamers than PS. But I bet you guys won't thank Xbox for having download option! As you can see it helped doubled PS Now when it was made it part of service. Of course you can disagree to agree as well, I won't hold it against you Playstation only gamers.
Why should anyone thank MS? How do you know that Sony didn't have it planned from the get go? You guys give to much credit to MS and put way to much trust in them. The perfect consumers.
“The addition of a download feature for PS4 titles has caused the gameplay time per user to increase significantly. At the moment the gameplay time for downloaded PS4 games is twice as much compared to the gameplay time of streamed titles, contributing to high user engagement and retention of PlayStation Now users.”
Sony can thank Phil Spencer and Game Pass for that increase. Also, seems that Sony is finally embracing MAU´s metrics for a change.
Uh huh. But MS is going to win next gen because of xCloud. Console gaming is in trouble because of Google Stadia. We can thank Sony for showing us how BS such statements are.
But, in a rare moment of somewhat agreeing with you....I do thank MS, because in this case, competition was a good thing and Sony provided a better service to get more users.
That said, MAU's tend to be pretty common for services, because the success of those services is actually based on such things. MAU's are the equivalent of consoles sold. Sony used them last gen for PSN accounts as well in investor reports. Not every time, but occassionally.
Considering the revenue splits that were reported elsewhere, this doesn't put digital services like it very high up in numbers overall. I suppose one could argue some get more, because they're cheaper, or free trials, or whatever, but the sustained numbers are really all that's important to these companies.
We'll probably never know actual numbers all around though. Google may report numbers. They don't seem afraid to report such things.
That's cool info. I used PS now a lot on Vita but when it was discontinued I had no further interest. I started trying Gamepass out on PC since it's a buck for 3 months, literally only 5 games available on PC to play. So the fact PS Now is available on PC and PS4 with full catalog and gamepass isn't, I'm going to pass on Game pass. Glad I gave it a shot though to see the differences and might try out PSNow again
I was in the same boat. The pc offerings are a joke. I did get the service to try gears and horizon 3.i got a promo, where you pay like a dollar for like 2 months. You literally can only find like 5 pc games. I came online and complained. Then ppl msgd telling me 2 other pc games they knew off the top. After those 2 months, I'd never pay got Gamepass honestly
No I mean like literally there really isn’t a lot, when you get game pass on Pc it lists all the games on the service. The games you can play are Gears of War 4, Sea of thieves, State of decay 2, Forza 4, MvCI, Recore, Ruiner, super lucky tales and that’s about the just of it.
The list of games available on Gamepass pc compared to xbox is honestly a joke but I don't blame Ms for doing it can't give oc the entire Xbox dinner plate. It may not even be their fault but 3rd party simply saying no.
Awesome, curious to see how Sony expands this or what more they do with this service when PS5 drops and to compete with Stadia and Xcloud and any other streaming service coming.
700,000 isn't much. Now I have a suggestion. Make it cheaper and throttle the number of game per month but allow new games to be streamed/downloaded. And then let me stream my whole library I already bought from PSN. How about that? At the end of the day, it's the only service that actually works and has some real users (and that includes GForce now which is a glorified Steam Link and whatever else is out there).
If they can keep up the 40% growth such acts are not needed. Any company with a service that had an anual growth of 40% is doing exactely the right thing. If not, I agree they should keep on iterating.
That means nothing. The PS VR is at about 4M as an add on in much less time. They would have to do 1M per year to make this relevant. They could do it easily, though. Just make what I said part of PSN+ @ $15 a month.
Could you imagine? With that strategy, Sony could easily boost "100M on a streaming service" .. instantly - no matter if people use it or not.
I’ve never paid over 1$ a month on the game pass. Every time I cancel the dollar a month promo pops right back up. I don’t see how they are making much money on it at all
Seem like the download option helped a lot going from 400k to 700k. However something not adding up with the split they gave awhile back. Any way Sony just gotta get a better library of games for psnow and they'll see numbers explode.
It’s great that finally have a hard number of PS Now subscribers. As the service gets rolled out in more territories that total should surpass 1 million.
On a side note I wonder how many subscribers Game Pass has in comparison
I am glad this is successful AND not taking over Sony's business model.
"More information about Sony’s strategy for game streaming will come at the Corporate Strategy Meeting on May 21."
Curious to see where they plan to take the service.
Well now that you can download games and play then it makes a little more sense and is a much better subscription.