Free-to-play games are doing better than ever on PlayStation platforms

Free games with microtransactions account for most of the money spent on mobile, but it’s a market that is also quietly growing on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.

At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today, Sony held a panel to discuss its growing offering of free games on its platforms. The publisher confirmed that revenues from these kinds of titles increased by 50 percent year-over-year, and that this only represents a small fraction of the business model’s potential on consoles.