| WiiStation360 said: I don't trust either number. Both Live and PSN numbers are padded with people who have multiple or unused accounts. Sony counts PSN forum ids and MS counts Windows Live ids as XBox members. |
Microsoft does not count Windows Live ID's as Xbox members. If it did, there would be over 200+ million "Xbox" users, and that's the safe/low estimate.
I'm sure someone has already said this, but here is the just of these numbers:
The Sony 20 million figure is PS3 users + PSP users + Playstation.com users.
- This includes all duplicates
- This includes all inactive accounts
The Microsoft 17 million figure is just 360 users.
- Of those, this includes both Silver and Gold users.
- This does NOT include Windows Live accounts.
- This ONLY includes accounts that have had activity in the last 30 days.
So, basically Sony could have a lot of inactive users in that figure, as well as duplicates, and spanning to the hand held and Playstation.com for increased numbers.
Now I hate all this back and forth numbers spin, but all I am going to say is Sony's comments this time sound desperate. If Microsoft released a cummulative amount, including all inactive accounts and duplicates, I have a feeling that 20 million figure wouldn't look so impressive.
