A new report from Sony confirmed Tuesday that over a third of PlayStation 4 owners use its PlayStation Plus subscription service. Members get a rotating collection of monthly games, and most PS4 games require it for online play.

PS Plus has 38.8 million subscribers. The service grew by 2 million subscriptions in 2019, with the last reported number being 36 million in February of last year. PlayStation Plus's closest competition, Xbox Live Gold, doesn't report its sales numbers publicly, but Sony's service alone has enough members to match nearly the entire 41 million userbase of the Xbox One itself.

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Analyst Daniel Ahmad shared the service's recent performance in a Twitter post, and said bonuses like PlayStation Plus's free game lineup would be essential to keeping users subscribed as Sony moves forward into the next generation with the PS5.

PlayStation Plus has been around since the PS3 days in 2010, but the service became much more vital to many players' priorities after the PS4 launched. In a move similar to Microsoft's own service, PS Plus became necessary to play games online with friends in most cases, with a few exceptions for free-to-play titles like Fortnite.

The service's collection of monthly games for subscribers have also been a big pull for players from the start. Rocket League launched as a bonus for PS Plus subscribers in 2015 and became an overnight sensation. This month's lineup included a PlayStation VR game for the first time alongside the typical pair of PS4 games. Sony hasn't confirmed if there will be more VR titles in the future, but doing so would only add more value to an already strong offering.

While PlayStation Plus has been a bright spot for Sony, the company's other ventures into subscription services haven't had the greatest showings. Live TV service PlayStation Vue closed up shop last month, leaving subscribers to fumble for other options to watch the Super Bowl. PS Vue had one of the better channel lineups for an online TV service, but Sony pulled the plug on it when user growth stagnated.

Games-on-demand platform PlayStation Now, meanwhile, has been chugging along since 2014, but reception to it has been muted compared to Xbox Game Pass. PS Now's lackluster streaming performance and the high asking price didn't impress PlayStation fans. It's safe to say that Sony will keep PS Plus around for the PS5. Only time will tell if the same can be said for its less-loved counterpart.

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