Friday, 25 January 2008

The PlayStation Network's success in Europe has been a surprise to David Reeves, President of SCEE. In an interview he reveals "We’ve now got about 2 million PSN registrations. That’s about 40 per cent of users." Which means that, using his figures, approximately 5 million PlayStation 3 consoles have been sold in Europe.

Reeves goes on to reveal that there are now 25 different PSN stores in the PAL territories, and that there have been around 33 million downloads (he doesn't say if that includes free downloads.)

Growth sales in Australia have been strong, up 45%, and Italy up 70%. The market in virgin territories is also expanding; in Russia it rose 80%.Last week the PlayStation 3 outsold the Xbox 360 in PAL territories by a ratio of 3:1. Positive of continued growth Reeves says "the team here expect to overtake installed base of Xbox 360 across PAL territories in late summer."

He confirmed that PlayTV will launch in 5 key EU territories at the end of April, and he reiterated that PlayStation Home is still on track to launch in Spring. Which is great news because I can't wait to customise my Home avatar to look like the perfect version of myself that I know I never will be.

Old news, already discussed. 40% of registrations means that 40% of PSN registrations are in Europe.

The conclusion is that there are 5 million PSN accounts world-wide, not that there are 5 million PS3s in Europe.

Shiped probably . This means that nearly 50% of the EU sales register their PS3s online :)

That article is over a month old and has been discussed back then if I recall correctly.

And what's with all the drag queen avatars?

sorry, my mistake

 +1 =D

this is old news, but its amazing that ps3 sold this many consoles in europe and it hasnt even been out a full year yet.

Very old news, but I don't understand why someone would not connect their PS3 to the internet

For christmas 2007 UK PS3 sales account for about 20-22% of the European market (similar as was the case for the PS2 lifetime sales). If this ratio holds true for all PS3 sales, at the time Chart Track / MCV reported 1 million PS3 sales for the UK (13th of February 2008), the total PS3 European install was about 4.84 million, add to this additional weeks worth of sales and countries not covered by SCEE the PS3 install base may well be above 5 million for "others" currently.