PlayStation Plus numbers are recovering, according to Sony

Sony today announced its earnings for the third quarter of its 2022 fiscal year, the three-month period ending in December 2022. One of the facts it disclosed is that the number of users who subscribe to PlayStation Plus are on the rise. While the actual subscriber count isn’t a record number, it’s recovering from a slump following the launch of the “Spartacus” revamp.

The numbers show that PlayStation Plus now boasts a subscriber count of about 46.4 million subscribers. In Q2 of the year (July-September), the subscriber count was at 45.4 million. This was a sharp decline from 47.3 million users in Q1. While there is no causal link between the two, the Spartacus change to PlayStation Plus rolled out in June 2022. The update added two more expensive tiers to the service and added several much-requested features to those more-expensive tiers.