Sony Confirms There Are Over 70 Million Active Users On PSN Per Month

Aran Suddi 12 Comments

Earlier today Sony revealed some facts regarding the PlayStation brand’s performance for the end of the 2016 financial year, which completed upon March 31st 2017. According to the report generated by Sony there are over 70 million active users on PSN per month, and 26.4 million PS Plus subscribers. Sony also revealed they are hoping to hit 78 million PS4 units sold by the end of the 2017 financial year.

The document also goes into a bit about the company’s upcoming strategy for the near future. Those who own a PSVR headset will be pleased to hear there is a focus on expanding the platform over the next 12 months as both a games and entertainment machine. There’s plans to enhance the game line up, improve PS4 Pro compatibility, and expand movie and music content for the headset.

Sony will also be concentrating on the mobile games market, though this strategy is aimed at Japan and other Asian nations where the mobile gaming industry is huge. Sony will be using both established IPs as well as new IPs for this market. If successful it wouldn’t be surprising to see Sony try to re-enter the mobile gaming space around the rest of the world, after it dabbled with it with PlayStation Mobile before shutting that down and removing access to those games.

Source: Sony

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12 Comments

  1. 25.4 million paying nearly £40 a year adds up to….a hell of a big amount, over 145 billion yen (£1 billion)

    With all those yen from PS+’ers and PS4’s sold the gaming side of Sony is doing really well.

  2. 78 Million PS4’s is crazy. Only feels like it came out last year.

  3. Wouldn’t be surprised if there was a price drop on both consoles Around Christmas time,just to get over that 70 million mark.

  4. Have to wonder if the PS VR/Exclusive Games/4K support etc… made a huge investments for the gamers with these amazing technologies.
    Have to admit that is really impressive!

  5. I might help slightly in that department, been eyeing up a 4K UHD telly and PS4 pro combo recently. I’m on my second PS4 anyways after trading the original for a slimster.

    Top stuff, go Sony ;)

  6. With it continuing to sell so well does anyone think we’ll see a announcement of a PS5 this year?

    • Possibly, the PS4 Pro can’t compete with Scorpio so Sony will want to do something to continue momentum. My guess would be another upgrade to the Pro rather than calling it the 5.

    • Not a chance in hell, surely. Once the “tail” starts to form, I can see things firming up for an announcement but not when they’re in the middle of the life-cycle and absolutely killing it with sales.

    • Id expect something at E3 next year, with release the year after. But it will be PS5 as in it’s a better version of a PS4, not a new console. Then there will be a PS5 Pro, which is a bit better. Etc etc.

      Sony arent going to make the mistake of not having backwards.. or indeed forwards compatibility. Programming two versions of a game for PS3 and PS4 was a nightmare for devs, making one version and tweaking it for PS4/PS4Pro/PS5 is so much easier. Same goes for Xbox/Scorpio/NextBox.

  7. I just got around to reading that thing from Sony.

    It contains the words ‘maximise profit during the “harvest” period’. Which sounds like something sinister from some sci-fi/horror film. Probably something involving expensive hats.

  8. Huge numbers and rightly so. Love my PS4Pro and on a UHDR 4K it’s beyond unreal. Well deserved :-)

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