Since Sony began usingPS Plusto support the release of PS5 and PS5 games in late 2020, the service has been on a bit of a hotstreak. Several new or big games, likeFinal Fantasy 7 Remake, have graced the service over the past year. In fact, thePS Plus free games for August 2021 have had the worst receptionin over a year. However, despite the uptick in quality and quantity games month over month, it seems Sony has still lost a ton of subscriptions.
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In a webcast discussing these figures (and transcribed by the folks at VGC), Sony’s chief financial offer Hiroki Totoki says that while numbers compared to last year are down, there is an increase if compared to fiscal year 2019. Totoki also don’t believe it’s a declining trend but the result of last year’s stay-at-home restrictions and the subsequent increase in gaming. After all, during the height of the pandemic last year, a ton of major companies urged folks to stay at home with initiatives, such asSony’s own Play at Home Initiativeand more.
On top of that,WHO (the World Health Organization) also encouraged people to play video gamesas a method of staying home and limiting the spread of the coronavirus. This makes perfect sense, as Totoki himself put it as “the stay-at-home demand was so significant in hindsight, so compared to that period last year as a trend of course [it’s declined.]” Nonetheless, while it does add up and Sony isn’t too worried about it, Totoki did say the company would “monitor the situation carefully and [it] will deepen the engagement and enhance the platform, therefore during the coming fiscal year we will take actions to support this business.”
PS Plussubscribers get a handful of free games every month.
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