A sign has emerged regarding PlayStation Plus Extra that should give Sony pause for thought, as it’s not a figure the company can be proud of.

We’ve already reported on the July PlayStation Plus Extra update, but we’ll mention some of the titles – Remnant 2, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion, No More Heroes 3 and Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes Complete Edition. In addition, PlayStation Plus Premium offered some retro games (Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters, Jeanne d’Arc, and the otherwise pretty good Summoner), but admittedly that’s not much, and by comparison, PlayStation Plus Essential, the entry-level monthly offering, was much weaker.

According to TrueTrophies, there was a drop of -48.67% in July compared to June 2024, which is NOT within the margin of error. The number of players has almost HALFED! This was achieved by making Remnant 2 the third most popular game on PlayStation Plus Extra and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion saw a 1171% increase in players after being added to the service. And yet the results were so poor, which means that the audience didn’t really buy the other games (or maybe they went on vacation, or canceled their subscription, or… you could go on and on).

TrueTrophies pointed out that the 14+ games in June were very positive for the service. If you take Days of Play titles out of the equation, July was still behind (-18.77%). In June, Sly Cooper and the Thievius Racconus was the PlayStation Plus Premium title of the month, but in July, Jeanne d’Arc was nowhere to be seen in the charts. There’s a twist to this story, though: TrueTrophies tracked 3.1 million PlayStation Network accounts, so Sony’s numbers could be much more varied, but the company won’t disclose them.

Still, the results are not very encouraging.

Source: GameRant, TrueTrophies