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theprof00 on 10 July 2009
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Mirson said:

According to the figures published by Sony itself, it has 24 million registered accounts on the PlayStation Network as of E3 2009. That’s about a million more than actual consoles sold at the time – enabled by the fact that single consoles often have multiple accounts - which is a damn fair result all things considered. By comparison the Xbox 360 lays claim to 20 million active - an important word selection there by Microsoft - Xbox Live users, two-thirds of its 30 million install base: still a very respectable result.

Active is a key word. According to the E3 figures reported by the two companies, Sony gamers have downloaded 485 million bits of content, or roughly 20 pieces per user during its lifetime. By contrast Xbox 360 gamers have downloaded 1 billion bits of content, which equates to 50 individual bits of DLC per user. That’s a massive difference.

Perhaps even more painful for Sony is the fact that only 6 million of their 24 million registered PSN users, or 25%, have downloaded Home. That is downloaded, not necessarily using. This is a completely free experience available to anyone and it’s worrying fact that the vast majority of PlayStation Network users couldn’t be stuffed even checking it out, let alone actively participating. In its current form, it is clear that the PSN just isn’t working as well as it could be. So what’s wrong?

Read more here - http://www.gameplayer.com.au/gp_documents/PSNStruggle.aspx

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It's an interesting read. It also talks about that fee Sony is charging to publishers for downloads and how it's affecting PSN's content.

So much FUD in this OP.

We don't know what the word active is defined as, and we don't know what Sony would consider active either.

2ndly, Sony is nearly half of the downloaded bits even though it has been out a year less, barely even had a network for another year of that, and we don't know of any other outside circumstances like Red ringers having to re-download all their data.

Sony is not feeling pain from home,I forget where it was reported but they are making lots of money off of it. We don't even know what active is in the case of home either.

 

 

This "report" is basically just a guy, using the same information that we all have, and drawing useless conclusions from them. They are useless because his points all rely on numbers that don't exist.