The EU Playstation Blog has posted the findings of its PlayStation Plus survey, held a few weeks ago and the results may suprise you.
Rather than shooters coming out tops, it appears subscribers would like RPG’s more than any other type of game on the service. The category stormed into first place with over 17,000 votes, closely followed by action adventure titles and then shooters came in third but only managed around 10,000 votes.
Chris Howe, PS Store and PS Plus content manager in Europe said “I don’t want anyone to panic and think that based on the results we’re going to focus all our efforts on solely securing these sorts of titles for the service. PlayStation Plus is a service for everyone and we will continue to strive to provide a variety of content to cater for all tastes.”
Another suprise is how low down in the results multi-player titles came.
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If this was a poll of current subscribers, it of course tells Sony only what current subscribers want. And quite a few of the recent free games have been RPGs or RPG-esque, so the survey has been largely self-actualising and merely reinforces current bias. That’s fine if all you want to achieve is to satisfy your base, rather than increase it. Sony should also ask non-subscribers what would encourage them to sign up. And I would wager that RPGs wouldn’t be near in the top three.