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smbu2000 on 28 March 2013
bananaking21 said:
teigaga said:
bananaking21 said:
teigaga said:
Lies!!!

I Acidently clicked on it once and felt immediately sick. Why does it still exist?


because it has 31 million fucking users 

What does that even mean??? How do they make money from it???

I'm technically a registered home user, but the only time I've opened up in recent years has been by mistake. Seriously though, I have a ton of friends who have PS3's and none of them use home, most don't even know what it is. This definitely is some sort of media spin, I don't what they define as an active user so... In reality its probably under 10m.


its 31 Million, accept that. they didnt say all users, they said active ones. meaning the ones you use it. they make money through microtransitions, they also market and advertise games on it, so it might bring them money from developers who want their game advertised. 

The article itself doesn't say "active" users. Only the title for this thread mentions "active" users, so I'm not sure why the OP put that in the thread title.

From the article:

" The content will be available to more than 31 million PlayStation Home users around the world."

No mention of  "active" users. They most likely mean 31 million have signed up/tried PS Home at least one time since it's inception.




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teigaga on 28 March 2013
Magnus86 said:
teigaga said:
bananaking21 said:
teigaga said:
Lies!!!

I Acidently clicked on it once and felt immediately sick. Why does it still exist?


because it has 31 million fucking users 

What does that even mean??? How do they make money from it???

I'm technically a registered home user, but the only time I've opened up in recent years has been by mistake. Seriously though, I have a ton of friends who have PS3's and none of them use home, most don't even know what it is. This definitely is some sort of media spin, I don't what they define as an active user so... In reality its probably under 10m.

As someone said, if it wasn't profitable Sony would have shut it down months or years ago.

They make money with the microtransations... believe me, i saw a lot of people with every kind of shit that they could buy xD

Also you and your friends don't represent the whole Playstation user base. ;)

But you can gauge these things when its comes to popularity. Home has no presence anywhere, not on the internet, not on these forums, not even on PSN/ playstaion OS, and not amongst the real life human beings I know. 



bananaking21 on 28 March 2013
smbu2000 said:
bananaking21 said:
teigaga said:
bananaking21 said:
teigaga said:
Lies!!!

I Acidently clicked on it once and felt immediately sick. Why does it still exist?


because it has 31 million fucking users 

What does that even mean??? How do they make money from it???

I'm technically a registered home user, but the only time I've opened up in recent years has been by mistake. Seriously though, I have a ton of friends who have PS3's and none of them use home, most don't even know what it is. This definitely is some sort of media spin, I don't what they define as an active user so... In reality its probably under 10m.


its 31 Million, accept that. they didnt say all users, they said active ones. meaning the ones you use it. they make money through microtransitions, they also market and advertise games on it, so it might bring them money from developers who want their game advertised. 

The article itself doesn't say "active" users. Only the title for this thread mentions "active" users, so I'm not sure why the OP put that in the thread title.

From the article:

" The content will be available to more than 31 million PlayStation Home users around the world."

No mention of  "active" users. They most likely mean 31 million have signed up/tried PS Home at least one time since it's inception.

this post pretty much explains it

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5242727



oniyide on 28 March 2013
teigaga said:
bananaking21 said:
teigaga said:
Lies!!!

I Acidently clicked on it once and felt immediately sick. Why does it still exist?


because it has 31 million fucking users 

What does that even mean??? How do they make money from it???

I'm technically a registered home user, but the only time I've opened up in recent years has been by mistake. Seriously though, I have a ton of friends who have PS3's and none of them use home, most don't even know what it is. This definitely is some sort of media spin, I don't what they define as an active user so... In reality its probably under 10m.


I think you are in denial  or just full of it. How can you be technically a registered user? HOME does not work like that. There is actually a process to setting up HOME, its simply not as easy as having a PSN id and signing in like you would the store. SO there is NO way that you went therer by "mistake", I dont buy what you are saying.

I logged on to home for the first time since having a PS3 in 08 for E3? its was alright but nothing i use really. Not saying HOME is bad but there are much better things to use my PS3 for.



ethomaz on 28 March 2013

I have the PS Home installed and only used one time.

31 million is massive for a failure.



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maverick40 on 28 March 2013

Sony make a tonne of profit from Home so I can defo see home being integrated into ps4



teigaga on 28 March 2013
joeorc said:
teigaga said:
bananaking21 said:
teigaga said:
Lies!!!

I Acidently clicked on it once and felt immediately sick. Why does it still exist?


because it has 31 million fucking users 

What does that even mean??? How do they make money from it???

I'm technically a registered home user, but the only time I've opened up in recent years has been by mistake. Seriously though, I have a ton of friends who have PS3's and none of them use home, most don't even know what it is. This definitely is some sort of media spin, I don't what they define as an active user so... In reality its probably under 10m.

 

 

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/02/playstation-home-is-a-good-profitable-business-says-sonys-bus/

 

 

As you can see right there the same Question was asked about home even then:

do people play those games? Do people explore those unique spaces? How many of those 14 million are actual active users? 

we can even rephrase that very question today.

"do people play those games? Do people explore those unique spaces? How many of those 31 million are actual active users?" 

Now that was 2010 and here in 2013 they say over 31 million, that very same Question was asked in 2010 

How many of those 14 million are actual active users? 

 

Do you really think " This definitely is some sort of media spin, I don't what they define as an active user so... In reality its probably under 10m."

Why would they have to spin this? If content is added every single week for year's straight, do you think if the number's were not active that they would not be adding as much as they do?


 

Very simple actually. They coud have a highly active yet small userbase, and by small I mean no where near 30m. If its profitable and a continuing business then they obviously hope to grow it further and that is all the justification needed for a PR Spin. 

And its worked because I'm going to check it out today and see how its changed since 200....whenever it was released.



Kasz216 on 28 March 2013

Locked for misleading title... and it just not being true.

Look at the PS3's total sales and use some common sense here guys. It's not active users.


Neither was the previous 14 million comment.  It's anybody who has used it once.



Viltsu300 on 28 March 2013

Xbox360 and PS3 sales are wrong. Ps3 has sold more than xbox. Change it people!



smbu2000 on 28 March 2013
bananaking21 said:
smbu2000 said:
bananaking21 said:


its 31 Million, accept that. they didnt say all users, they said active ones. meaning the ones you use it. they make money through microtransitions, they also market and advertise games on it, so it might bring them money from developers who want their game advertised. 

The article itself doesn't say "active" users. Only the title for this thread mentions "active" users, so I'm not sure why the OP put that in the thread title.

From the article:

" The content will be available to more than 31 million PlayStation Home users around the world."

No mention of  "active" users. They most likely mean 31 million have signed up/tried PS Home at least one time since it's inception.

this post pretty much explains it

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5242727

So it looks like it's exactly as I said it then.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29158/Buser_PlayStation_Home_Model_Is_Quite_Profitable.php

"Buser can rattle off the latest Home numbers on command: Over 100 games on the service; average user session of 70 minutes; over 50 virtual Home spaces; 85 percent of Home users at any given time have been there before; and 14 million users (defined as anyone who has ever downloaded the client and come into Home)."

Basically anyone who has ever downloaded Home and come into Home is counted as a "Home user" even if they've only used it one time, ever. Looks like 31 million users have tried Home at least one time. (I wouldn't call those active users though.)




starcraft: "I and every PS3 fanboy alive are waiting for Versus more than FFXIII.
Me since the games were revealed, the fanboys since E3."

Skeeuk: "playstation 3 is the ultimate in gaming acceleration"