Sony: a clarification on the 17 million PSN users stat
When Sony reported that they have a total of 17 million users on the PlayStation Network, some of you may have went all buh?, considering that Microsoft tossed out the same number of registered users for Xbox Live. Turns out that there were some things Sony forgot to mention on how they arrived at that number.
Thanks to Fujin for the tip!
When Sony reported that they have a total of 17 million users on the PlayStation Network, some of you may have went all buh?, considering that Microsoft tossed out the same number of registered users for Xbox Live.
Turns out that there were some things Sony forgot to mention on how they arrived at that number. MTV got out their magnifying glasses, detective caps, and bubble pipes to figure it out. Then they got Sony on the line and asked them what’s up. Here’s what they got:
The PSN numbers (17M and 2.1M) include people who have created accounts on PS3, the Web site and PSP.
Note that since the implementation of single sign-on, PSN ID and PlayStation Underground IDs (which were often created at the same time when first making a PSN ID) were automatically merged and rolled over.
Additionally, since PSN is a free online gaming service, some households create multiple IDs so that a father can keep a separate list of friends, trophies and stats from that of his daughter for example.
So. There you go. Find whatever satisfaction you can get from that, just don’t spread the fanboy hate around, mmkay? Hate is baaaad, mmkay?
Thanks to Fujin for the tip!
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Via MTV