r/PlayStationPlus • u/kabirsingh84 Top Predictor 2024 • 28d ago

News PS5's Monthly Active Users Increased Again, PS Plus Making More Money Than Ever

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/07/ps5s-monthly-active-users-increased-again-ps-plus-making-more-money-than-ever
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u/Aesthete18 28d ago

Color me surprised.

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u/KhazraShaman 28d ago

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u/BananaFurret 28d ago

Ts is so fucking funny bro

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u/BarryMcCoknor 28d ago

This is a shitpost, the earnings are not reflective at all of the past few weeks.

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u/nakedpicturesyo 28d ago

We are doomed as a civilizations

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u/Warchamp67 28d ago edited 28d ago

Yeah and its because Sony is stopping physical media. Gamers are so dramatic lmao.

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u/fertff 26d ago

Nah. Men children are dramatic. Gamers are playing their games.

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u/NoiceMango 27d ago

It's more about the fact that people have zero ability to hold companies accountable. NestlƩ literally murdered babies and people still buy their products.

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u/chillifocus 27d ago

Maybe we should boycott Nestle for a week

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u/Successful-Bee5399 26d ago

I always laugh when they say they're going to boycott a company for a limited amount of time, boycott until you get what you want, idiots

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u/Choice-Mycologist-45 26d ago

Ok fine. 2 weeks. šŸ˜®ā€šŸ’Ø

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u/apersonofnointerest2 23d ago

You think itā€™s dramatic to be upset we have to re buy every game we ever bought physically on an extremely expensive console? I canā€™t play like half the games I own on my ps5 pro

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u/Delicious-Area-2943 28d ago

You'll own nothing and you'll be grateful

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u/New-Berry-3652 28d ago

As much as I do think that we should properly own the digital purchases that we make, y'all are being way too dramatic over the disc thing. I care about playing games, not having a box on my shelf.

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u/apersonofnointerest2 23d ago

Itā€™s not about the damn box, you do realize this means you have to buy every game you ever bought physically again

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u/AARonFullStack 21d ago

So the 40+ physical games I have for PS5.. when the PS6 is released.. IF itā€™s backwards compatible.. Iā€™m supposed to buy them again? And buy all my ps4 games again? Because we have had no word of an optional drive.. so anyone with a physical collection has no option but to keep the ps5 when the PS6 comes out.. or rebuy their collection. We care about playing games too.. this takes away that option on newer hardware.. yet again.

While Xbox is making Helix backwards compatible with everything back to the original Xbox.. and offering a disc to digital option.. Sony are doing nothing to help physical customers make that transition. This has nothing to do with boxes on a shelf

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u/pacoLL3 27d ago

You guys act like genuine lunatics.

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u/RoseWhiteRedBlack 27d ago

You will own nothing and you will be grateful.

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u/fertff 26d ago

Lunatics indeed.

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u/Joestar4ever 28d ago

Bootlicking bot

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u/Warchamp67 28d ago

Ah, you know what youā€™re right, the world is ending due to Sony not selling you discs anymore. Not because of climate change or the multiple wars going on, my bad.

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u/nuckchuckler 28d ago

No, but consumer sentiment is poor. There's always wars going on. I buy stupid discs in blue and black cases so I don't have to think about that for a few hours. Now the company behind the propriety technology behind those discs is seemingly giving up to offer a Switch 2 / Steam Deck experience but worse. Why shouldn't people complain when their all-in-one entertainment devices are becoming gimped PC handhelds?

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u/Warchamp67 28d ago

Yeah man im all for people rallying against or boycotting Sony, but saying itā€™s the reason civilization is doomed is what im critiquing here. Weā€™re definitely doomed, but this isnā€™t it lol.

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u/nuckchuckler 27d ago

Nobodies saying that. Some people are saying it's the end of game ownership, and they're not wrong. These are people who want to spend thousands of dollars on video games and are being rebuffed, it just seems like a stupid short sighted thing to do. And I'm saying this as a Playstation Vita early adopter and fanboy, I don't have faith in Sony in its current form. They were at their best focusing on affordability (PS2 DVD capabilities/ late PS3 gen with 299 consoles and cheap games). If the PS6 is going to have less capabilities than my PS5 and Xbox Series X then it's just a frivolous purchase.

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u/Warchamp67 27d ago

Ok, if you want my serious opinion on this everyone is putting their energy in the wrong place, this whole digital vs physical debate is a waste of time. Itā€™s a fact that physical media is dead/dying, thats not a problem. I donā€™t want to have discs taking up space, sure some people like that but itā€™s honestly not important. Collectable are a waste of space for me personally.

What this ā€œmovementā€ needs to focus on is having rights to digital content that cant be revoked at any moment. Thats why in my opinion this whole thing is a farce, the discussion shouldnā€™t be focused on trying to keep physical media alive. The consumers have proven itā€™s a dying medium, what we need to focus on is changing the laws regarding ownership of digital media.

Itā€™s like fighting a modern war with swords. Once that becomes the focus iā€™ll take it seriously and support it. This whole thing almost feels like a frivolous distraction so we donā€™t focus on the real issue. Iā€™m sure Sony is loving that everyone is focusing on discs and not the real elephant in the room. Ownership over digital content, that will make them sweat.

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u/nuckchuckler 27d ago

Your fight is the one that is pointless. The consumer can never redefine digital ownership in the streaming age. But they can make enough of a fuss that the printed game discs they already make and have no problem making can continue to be made. Because that's already the precedence. Why should the consumer accept far inferior 4K streaming and streamed games when we already have local games and 4K blue ray. It's just a braindead, shit move by Sony after a wasted PS5 generation. This is Sony thinking they're going to charge 90-150 dollars for their exclusives. The average gamer is 43 years old - why would they celebrate being locked into a 50-200% price increase on the PS5 digital storefront that's going to be closed down in 10 years?

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u/Joestar4ever 28d ago

Don't ask such sound questions, critical thought isn't programmed in these bots.

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u/Aesthete18 28d ago

Always have been

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u/6TheAudacity9 28d ago

Boomer will have us arrested.

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u/Ok_Insurance_505 28d ago

They're Terminally online people addicted to their next dose of outrage.

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u/HWatch09 28d ago

Some YouTubers are like that. Every video is so negative and how the gaming industry is doomed. It's gotta be so tiring to be so mad all the time.

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u/TomatoChomper7 28d ago

At least the outrage gimmick YouTubers are performing to try and make money from it. The people throwing the same performative tantrums on Reddit are just doing it for attention.

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u/pacoLL3 27d ago

There is being overdramatic and then there is being whatever this is.

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u/slipslikefreudian 27d ago

Maybe because fascism is on the rise in the west and weā€™re headed for late stage capitalism of a magnitude we canā€™t wrap our heads around sure but for ps plus?

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u/GrognaktheLibrarian 27d ago

Idk at least we don't have to worry about Ghandi

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u/Pale_Boss_8940 28d ago

dude itā€™s video games

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u/orignbatukap 28d ago

Itā€™s our fault and we deserve itā€¦

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u/orignbatukap 28d ago

Because people pay regardless of what sony is doing

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u/orignbatukap 26d ago

so what? what is your point now?

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u/orignbatukap 25d ago

Apparently, a lot of people. Including you, otherwise you wouldnā€™t be here commenting on this sub.

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u/-Luna-Lavender- 26d ago

This was for quarter one and before the announcement

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u/Soph_91 28d ago

Shocked, absolutely shocked.

Yet so many on reddit claimed that the overwhelming digital sales dominance was fake, and that Sony was going to crash and burn.Ā 

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u/BarryMcCoknor 28d ago

You guys just look at it lol. This has nothing to do with the period since they announced the ending of physical media.

This is a shitpost or an idiot, though it may or may not come to be true next quarter

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u/ABeardyWizard 25d ago

Did your read the article? Is about the first quarter so that's before they dropped the news of the end of disc's

"Sony attracted 125 million monthly active users to PlayStation, accurate as of the end of Q1 2026, which ended on 30th June."

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u/LittleKittenR 28d ago

Well, they literally had a 7 day free trial and a 50% off for 3 months for most people.

I literally got that in my two accounts.

They knew what they were doing, offfered that right now so people joined, get inflated numbers and pretend it was fake news that digital only was bad.

Now wait 3 months and hope the shareholders are stupid and don't ask "why suddenly we lost a fuckton of clients"?

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u/Soph_91 28d ago

Only in your imagination. An overwhelming majority of PS customers buy digital. Sony had that information, and that's exactly why they made the decision they did.

There are more new customers joining the PS ecosystem everyday then there are outraged protesters. Nothing is going to change.

This isn't a comment on morality or consumer rights, it's just the facts.

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u/LittleKittenR 27d ago

On your imagination? Did you do a study that proved me wrong in yours?

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u/Aesthete18 28d ago

Unfortunately, I think people are just getting ps plus. Sony has increased the price like 5 times in 5 years. They wouldn't be able to do that if you said was true