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Sony Boasts 60 Million PlayStation Network Accounts
ThomasN7
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Sony's PlayStation Network is 60 million registered accounts strong. That was the figure provided by CEO Howard Stringer at last night's Sony CES presser -- a number twice as large as the 30 million Xbox Live members Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touted just hours earlier.
Sony's lengthy CES press conference, covered with plenty of eye candy by Engadget, included the full range of consumer electronics bearing the Sony label and featured a liberal dose of 3D. In describing the growth and potential of the PlayStation 3 and PSP gaming and multimedia service, Stringer said PlayStation Network has surpassed the 60 million accounts marker.
Stringer did not specify how many of those accounts are active or break them down by PS3 and PSP. However, that 60 million figure is up dramatically over last year's tally. At CES 2010, Stringer announced PSN had hit 38 million accounts.
It's a huge online market Sony said it plans to mine with expanded gaming, music, video, and PlayStation Home products.
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First and Foremost...
Playstation is a Japanese Console and the reason that Playstation Network Accounts are up is because in Japan, a lot of sequals and downloadable content for games are on the Playstation Portable (PSP) and to access that content you need a Japanese Playstation Network Account.
In Japan, the content to the games released are tracked to Japanese IP addresses. If your IP address is not a "Japanese" IP address for some of the content, you literally get a message telling you that the content itself is available in Japan-Only and even if you paid for it, you must have a Japanese IP address in order to have access to it.
Also, thanks to the fact that Japanese Gamers are heavily into the handhelds to continue sequals and get extra content and westerns are also after such games, you literally have many who have a Japanese PSN account while also having an account in their own region.
So that you know, the majority of Playstation 3 owners and PSN account owners are Japanese living in Japan. They have around 40 million+ in Japan Alone, thanks to the deal last year to bundle a PSP with a PS3 in some stores with "extras" for buying as its mandatory in Japan in have a PSN account when owning a PS3/PSP.
So yeah, you scooped something up from the internet without knowing both sides to the story. Please be careful next time.
Oh yeah, if you want to reply and say "I am wrong" and "Full of shit" for any fanatics...I can read, speak and write Japanese and have spoken for 12 years now, and I also have a Japanese Playstation Network Account and I have friends who live in Japan and there are some games I play connected to Japanese servers where all conversations are done in Japanese.
So Japan does not count just because the PS3 sells extremely well in Japan ? LOL ok....
Thanks for putting words in my mouth.
Please find where I explictly made such declaration. Remember, the topic is about playstation network accounts. It is not about Playstation 3 sales. Specially when the majority of Playstation Network owners are Playstation Portable owners since nearly one-third of the titles available in Japan for the PSP are "Downloadable" titles.
The major difference is that while the US has Digital Distributors like Steam exist, you aren't forced into having steam for every title available on steam. Simply put, if you pay for a downloadable PSP game in Japan, it requires you to own a playstation network account and without such an account you can't buy downloadable PSP games, less alone update them or even access them.
thanks for sharing, this console has been very successful in its goal.
I own both consoles Xbox360 and PS3 but the online service of Microsoft is much better than the service by Sony. Another thing to mention is that most PSN Users dont pay a monthly fee, like you have to pay for the Microsoft service like using MP in any game.
There's just a hell of a lot more Sony consoles out there so the gap makes perfect sense.
Im proud of Sony for achieveing this wonderful feat. Im proud of xbox for slowly catching up as well.