Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter has said that he expects Sony’s recently announced PlayStation Plus service to rack up one million subscribers over the next year.
Chatting in the latest episode of Bonus Round, Pachter said he reckons the paid service will prove a success, though noted that he anticipates any new additions to PSN (such as tournaments etc) to be exclusive to PS Plus.
“I think that every enhancement to Playstation Network going forward is going to be for Playstation Plus so they’re always going to give you basic online gameplay,” he said.
“I think when they start adding tournaments and new types of achievement systems it’s going to be for Playstation Plus members only and they’ll get a very slow migration over to the $50 a year (£39.99 in the UK).”
“I think Playstation Plus will work,” Pachter continued. “You’ll get one million subscribers this year, two million next year, three million the next year and it’ll just slowly build.”