Sony Announces Current PSN User Base Figures
The PlayStation 3 is not the only one to have recently turned three, the PlayStation Network also shares the same birthday, marking it’s third year of service PlayStation users. Starting on the PS3 the network expanded onto the PSP, and, in some respects, onto the PC. With numerous firmware updates, and revamps of the PlayStation Store, the network has greatly improved over the course of it’s life, with even more updates coming later today. The free service was previously known to have over 24 million users, now, to mark the service’s coming of age, SCEA has announced how many users the service currently has.
At the moment, there are more than 31 million registered PlayStation Network accounts worldwide, making it one of the largest online networks in the world. To date, more than 650 million pieces of content have been downloaded worldwide from PlayStation Store, with last October marking the highest month of revenue on record. The PlayStation Network’s number’s are only set to grow as the PS3′s and PSP’s sales continue to grow, as well as Sony’s possible plans to bring the PlayStation Network to other Sony products.
16 Responses to “Sony Announces Current PSN User Base Figures”
Wonder how many unique users they actually have.
awesome numbers
I’d love to see sales numbers
Well I have two PS3′s each with its own account so that more than one player can play online with each other in the same room. Since very few games to splitscreen online it makes doing it this way a necessity so the numbers might be scewed by at least one in my case. And if you make a mistake in your account your not able to change it you have to make another account so this is just numbers.
Ok the PS3 has 26 million in sales, the Xbox 360 has 33 million in sales… I really don’t quite trust these numbers.
Of course this is coming from someone with like 13 accounts on his PS3…
US
JP
EU
old friend’s account
his gf’s account
an account that I sometimes pull some games off of to try out
8 dummy accounts
2 ex co-worker accounts,
and a few half finished users…
I don’t know why they are bragging about those stats quite frankly.
i’m fine with one account
@SPD55
Just because you have 2 ps3 doesnt mean everyone does. they are counting accounts not units sold. if they had 31 million there flanking the 360……… which there not
i agree with maki.. to many fake accounts and wanna bes unable to buy from them…
I have 7 accounts myself.
US – to get the countries respective – Exclusive stuff
EU – same – Exclusive stuff
JP – for early game demo’s, LBP beta and socom beta
HK – lair demo and 6months early access to home beta
AUS – for the music download service they use to have
US – just a spare account, i thought of a good username and so i decided to make an account.
EU – used to prank a friend of mine.. i copied his PSN name, and replace the l (letter L) with I (capital i) and pwn him to death.
…free account making is whats causing this – i belive there’s a restriction of 5 master acc. per PS3 unit.
You’re only allowed one registered account per mac id; the subsequent accounts are all sub-accounts. They consider the first activated account the registered account.
What I really want to know is why is there so many people who haven’t gone online with their PS3 yet?
exactly snxp, Sony is talking about accounts and you get one per unit ID,
they don’t count sub-accounts, and Euro/girlfriend/HK are just that.
For all you geniuses doubting theese numbers – you don’t need a PS3 to have a PSN account. PSP users can create their own accounts as well to use online gaming. The 31 million are combined PS3/PSP user accounts.
Which does indeed mean that the PSN has already eclipsed Xbox LIVE in terms of online gamers……despite being a much younger service.
But david. the PSP doesn’t have really any bearing on online gameplay with user accounts. those user accounts are all only for purchasing until they are placed onto a PS3. So the major thing is that there is essentially no use for a huge portion of these accounts.
The kind of numbers WE want as a community are how many people REGULARLY game online with those accounts. If Blizzard kept all Diablo universe accounts they could most likely have 400 million accounts. That doesn’t mean much if only 5 million people are playing those 2 games.
We’re not doubting that there’s a legitimate number of PSN accounts which may surpass the combined totaled PS3 sales, but how many of those are actively online and being used for purchasing, for playing, etc… that’s all that matters. How they are used, not how many there are. Otherwise they are not being genuine by quoting numbers which may or may not matter at all.
Sony released a bunch of figures regarding this a couple of days ago……i think it’s about 5.4 million of those accounts sign – in to the PSN on a daily basis.
Ya a few million sign in on a daily basis, but do you have a link stating what days most of the game play takes place at, maybe what time, average users, I want the real hardcore statistics… you know something to plan your online time by?
“Oh more people are more likely to play Killzone 2 at this time, on this day, well sweet I’ll set a reminder…”
Or “Well I might want to create the Mybuzz quiz at this time so that there’s more people to play it right away”
I didn’t happen to see the link of the figures regarding all of this and i’m not going to search for it because I don’t know what I’m searching for. Whether it’s called PSN useage statistics, or PSN Online Account Stats… I just really want to know what games are being played the most, when they’re being played the most and least, etc… and compare those with the 360′s numbers. I”m curious how the paid service statistics stack up against the free service statistics.
No, i have absolutely no idea where you would find those kind of detailed statistics. Or if they even exist, for that matter. I know they keep track of things in LBP like how many levels have been created and how many levels have been played online but i dion’t think they record what time of day or what day of the week the majority of online gaming takes place at/on.