Sony's PSN regional breakdown, by the numbers

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LordTheNightKnight said:

Dallinor said:

melbye said:

I did some percentages based on the total amount of one country PSN-accounts vs that country total population

Great Britain 15.49
Norway 11.10
US 10.09
France 7.14
Australia 6.90
Denmark 6,89
Netherlands 6.81
Iceland 6.55
Spain 6.48
Finland 6.25
Belgium 6.08
Portugal 6.05
Japan 5.8
Sweden 5.71
New Zealand 5.35
Austria 4,93
Germnay 3.96
Italy 2.37

A more interesting result could be drawn by comparing the number of accounts to the install base of each country.

North America - 74%

Japan- 31%

EMEAA -63%

Japan seems very low.

Which likely means the ad hoc multiplayer for games like Monster Hunter is more popular than direct online.

It's a VERY interesting bit of info there.

No wonder the console monster hunters only do a fraction of the PSP ones.

I wonder if MMO type games with ad-hoc functionality would work big in japan.