"January 12, 2009 - More than two years ago, a little thing known as a PlayStation Network came online. True, it had a rocky start -- an ugly PlayStation Store design, games without voice chat, and so on -- but from that seed, a full-fledged game and video service has grown. Last week at the Consumer Electronics Show, Sony was happy to talk a bit about what has been and will be happening on the network -- the video store is a success and there's an update coming to Life with PlayStation -- but today the company opened the floodgates.

Below is information about PlayStation Home downloads, LittleBigPlanet levels, and more. It's all straight from Sony, and it's all related to you…

PlayStation Network registered users worldwide: 17 million+
Number of community-created LittleBigPlanet levels: Nearly 300,000
Times those LBP levels have been played: 68 million
Number of movies on the Video Store: 1,200
Number of TV shows on the Video Store: 3,000
Purchase or Rental?: More than 70 percent of video transactions are purchases
Number of PlayStation Home users: 3.4 million+
Number of downloads made in Home: 900,000+
Number of downloadble games for North America: 153
Number of those games release during the last quarter of 2008: 75
Number of games with DLC in North America: 70

Three most popular downloadable games last week:

• Pain


• High Velocity Bowling


• Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix

Three most popular downloadable movies last week:

• The Dark Knight


• Iron Man


• The Happening

Three most popular downladble TV shows last week:

• Family Guy


• Xam'd: Lost Memories


• Afro Samurai"

Source - http://ps3.ign.com/articles/944/944102p1.html

Some nice number, PSN accounts match Xbox Live membership accounts from what i remember

Yeah but don't forget those are PS3 + PSP numbers

Someone downloaded the happening?

WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT!?

A lot of people did, it would seem. #3... how disheartening.

You can get a PSN account even if you don't own a PS3 or PSP. Just go to WWWW.Playsstation.com. they are registering anyone. Its like Microsoft advertising all their hotmail users as xbox live members. Sad.

And MS's number most likely include the original xbox.

I think the userbase wil increase a lot this year.

 Does Live membership include Games For Windows? The services work across both platforms.

Or it could do this as well. There is some much fine print on both sides, that we will never know the true numbers.

AS far as I'm concerned the extra "bells and whistles" on Live are not worth the fee.