Sony Expecting 80 Million PS4s Sold by March, Income Up Over 700 Percent
Financial results are coming in, and Sony is charting huge success for PlayStation. To date, there [...]
The Shift to Services and Smaller Transactions
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It's worth noting that as the rate of hardware sales begins to decline, Sony will be focusing more acutely on PlayStation Plus retention, and smaller digital transactions in the future. Several outlets are spinning this as Sony making a shift to microtransactions for sustained revenue, and while that's true in a sense, it should also mean that we see some interesting new features make their way to PlayStation Plus in the near future.
Just think about it. Next March there will be around 80 million PlayStation 4 owners. If Sony can somehow entice all of those 80 million users to opt in on a $60 PlayStation Plus subscription, that's an insane amount of revenue, and Sony is pretty much guaranteed huge software revenue as PlayStation Plus members enjoy exclusive sale prices and offers not available to non-plus members.
Sony's game plan going forward will be to entice gamers to keep their Plus Subscriptions active, and the best way to do that is with incredible free games and exciting new features. That's a win for us, in the end.