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badgenome on 25 February 2009
gebx said:
Sharky54 said:
gebx said:

The registered accounts on PlayStation Network reached 5million in 1 year and 2 months, 10 million in 1 year and 8 months, and exceeded 20 million in only 2 years and 3 months from the service launch on November 11, 2006*1

 

 

edit: wait... math is wrong.. one second


Based on that paragraph, Sony is saying that since July 2008 The Playsation Network has been signing up 83,000 new accounts a DAY!!!

Anyone else think thats a little high??

 

Nope sounds right for how awesome a machine the PS3 is. Oh and you can just sign up online. I am sure half of those people signed up to flame KZ2 on the sony boards lol

 

Its actually 47k... and that does sound more realistic then the 83k I had first miscalculated.

But now you're looking at 329,000 new accounts every week, or 1.4 MILLION new accounts every month for the last 7 months

It might not be out of the question to think it could achieve that number between legitimate newcomers and dupe accounts. For instance, consider the Killzone 2 demo fiasco brought to you by Gamestop. That probably caused a lot of NA users to make EU accounts.



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gengen2034 on 25 February 2009

i think it refers to numbers from launch date
5million in 14 months from launch date
10million in 20 months from launch date
20million in 27 months from launch date

im asuming somewhere between the 5 and 10mil mark the service was expanded to psp and pc although i could be wrong.

365/12*27=821days
20000000/821=24360 per day



Steroid on 25 February 2009

The accounts are free to create and free to play with. It's free like myspace or Facebook or XBL silver membership.



Gilgamesh on 25 February 2009

Yes people that's PS3+PSP+Internet accounts, according to Sony that totals over 70 million so it's very reasonable that there's 20 million accounts out of that 70 million.



Zomb1337 on 25 February 2009

20 Million accounts....my friends single PS3 has 4-5 accounts.



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(Predicted on 5/31/11) END of 2011 Sales - Xbox 360 = 62M;  PS3 = 59M;  Wii = 97M

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llewdebkram on 25 February 2009

Just like PS2 sales they rely on people having more than account/console to get to the final number.



gebx on 25 February 2009
Gilgamesh said:

Yes people that's PS3+PSP+Internet accounts, according to Sony that totals over 70 million so it's very reasonable that there's 20 million accounts out of that 70 million.

 

 Internet Accounts??

Sony says they have 70 million units between PS3 and PSP (Units = Console & Portable). This makes sense since vgchartz has 20 million PS3's and 45 million PSP's for a total of 65 million sold (Sony is referring to sold to retailer/shipped).



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IllegalPaladin on 25 February 2009

Two of those are mine :P

Screw the Gamestop Killzone 2 demo pre-order incentive.

And so continues the penis waving by Sony and Microsoft.



Gilgamesh on 25 February 2009
gebx said:
Gilgamesh said:

Yes people that's PS3+PSP+Internet accounts, according to Sony that totals over 70 million so it's very reasonable that there's 20 million accounts out of that 70 million.

 

 Internet Accounts??

Sony says they have 70 million units between PS3 and PSP (Units = Console & Portable). This makes sense since vgchartz has 20 million PS3's and 45 million PSP's for a total of 65 million sold (Sony is referring to sold to retailer/shipped).

If you go to the Playstation website you can sign up for the PSN over the internet, some people might do this to get into the forums.



sponnyroad on 25 February 2009

wow, 25 million ps3 sold, 20 million accounts when PS network is free. Yea huge accomplishment...

Xbox 360 has about 20 million gold members and they pay 50$ a year. Now thats an accomplishment.