Research: PlayStation Home Active Users (Please Answer the Pool)

[joeorc]

Kasz216 said:

When Asked about active home users the Sony PR line is "We share this info with retailers but won't release it publicly.".

Can you think of many reasons why you wouldn't share the number of active users with consumers when most companies use large active user base numbers as a marketing tool?  (And 32 million would be huge.  Hell 20 million would be huge.  Higher then WoW at it's peak.  Even free that's impressive)

 

I can think of quite a few reason's why, for one the main part of Sony's Playstation Game console is to sell game's for the living room, the whole point of Playstation Home is to get Gamer's together in a social network, why worry about inflating those number's? That's is not the goal of Playstation Home, its a money maker but its just a Social network, Playstation game console's are not centered around a function such as a social platform. No matter how well Playstation Home is doing for profit, even if that number was lower way lower. you heard Sony talk about Move even boasting they sold such and such number of unit's. And Home is waaaaay more successful than Move!

Playstation Home is not 2nd life, it's not twitter. it's not  Facebook,It is not the same thing as those . What i also pointed out is the fact that unlike those other social network's that Sony's integrated many part's of Game centric features into every facit of the service. when you go into the hub, the bill board is not just to show information there are quest's for your avatar to do every day, that allow's you to unlock more unlockable's inside Home. 

Again this part of playstation network service is not the focus, the whole service is part of PSN it's not the main focus of PSN. Like for example PSN+ now has features for playstation Home that you can only get if your a playstation plus subscriber. Remember Playstation Plus's main focus from Sony is its Game's the other part's are there to be shown as a benefit, but they always promote it from a "free game's every month" focus.

Sony does not need to talk about Home because it's not their main focus! If it was not doing as well say 5 million real Active user's and they say that How would that be a bad Number is the service is @ profit? many may say but, that is 7 year's that's a very bad number. Look at it this way. Has Playstation Home ever been a main focus for the Playstation Platform? 

But yet they in Public talked about Move being successful. And many will still think Move was a flop.