20 million registered PSN accounts exceed Xbox Live accounts

Sony announces that more than 20 million PlayStation Network accounts have been registered.

20 million registered PSN accounts exceeds Xbox Live

In a press release today (read below), Sony announces that in just two years and three months more than 20 million PSN accounts have been registered worldwide on the PlayStation 3. That's three million more than registered Xbox Live accounts. Microsoft's public relations firm, Edelman, informed me "There are more than 17 million Xbox LIVE members worldwide."

The PlayStation Network is free to access, play, and download a variety of media content while Xbox Live comes at a price. Is there a correlation here? We think so.

REGISTERED ACCOUNTS ON PLAYSTATION(r)NETWORK EXCEED 20 MILLION WORLDWIDE

Remarkable Milestone Achieved in Only 2 Years and 3 Months Since Its Launch on November 11, 2006

Tokyo, February 25, 2008 - Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) today announced that the cumulative number of registered accounts on PlayStation Network worldwide has exceeded 20 million as of February 20, 2009. 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. The number of users connected to PlayStation Network is ever growing, thus successfully building a robust network business platform.

PlayStation Network is a free to access network service for PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) computer entertainment system and PSP (PlayStation Portable) handheld entertainment system, that has more than 70 million sell-in units*2 around the world both platforms combined. Directly accessible from PS3, PSP or PC, users are able to enjoy a broad range of on-line content and services, including on-line gaming, video chat and text messaging with other PS3 users on-line, as well as many games and video content downloadable from PlayStation Store. Since its launch, PlayStation Network has expanded its services to over 55 countries and regions around the globe, gaining strong support from users for its breadth of entertainment content available for both PS3 and PSP systems in addition to its free to use basic features and services.

To offer more fun and excitement to users, PlayStation Network is continually enhancing gaming experience through online game features such as online battle and team play, as well as adding more and more downloadable game items. More than 600 titles incorporated with online features have been released for the PS3 system worldwide, including Resistance: Fall of Man, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue and LittleBigPlanet from SCE.

PlayStation Store offers more than 14,500 diverse digital content, ranging from exclusive on-line games, downloadable version of UMD titles, game demos and items, and titles from "Game Archive," through which legendary and popular titles from the original PlayStation are made playable on PS3 and PSP, to more than 5,900 movies and TV episodes that are available through Video Delivery Service*3 that started in the United States in July 2008. To date, more than 380 million pieces of content*4 have been downloaded, with total sales exceeding 180 million US dollars*5, and the business scale is rapidly expanding.

PlayStation Home launched its service in December 2008 and in less than 2 months, the number of users has exceeded 4 million. Within the ground-breaking 3D environment, users are able to meet, share gaming experiences, and enjoy communication with each other. Collaborative initiatives with various game titles and franchises are underway to offer more new fun on games in the world of PlayStation Home as it evolve over time, adding new spaces, features and functions to create a living, growing platform for the PlayStation community.

Additionally, the number of users enjoying Life with PlayStation has now exceeded 2.6 million*6. Life with PlayStation offers users a new way to obtain information on a TV monitor in the living room by connecting it to the network via PS3. With "time" and "place" as keywords, Life with PlayStation will add more channels to enjoy content on the internet and broaden the world of entertainment beyond the realms of games that is made possible through connecting PS3's vast computational power to the network.

SCE, along with content providers and users will continue to further expand the entertainment experiences with PS3, PSP and PlayStation Network to create a new world of computer entertainment.

  • *1 Launched in Japan on November 11, 2006.
  • *2 PS3: 21.3 million units as of December 2008, PSP: 50 million units as of January 2009.
  • *3 Launched in July 2008. As of February 2009, over 1,400 movies and 4,400 TV episodes are available for download.
  • *4 Includes free of charge content (downloadable demos and promotion videos).
  • *5 As of February 2009.
  • *6 As of February 2009.

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slime

Nice swing of momentum Sony with Killzone and RE5 coming out now that $100 dollar drop will be the icing on the cake.

patsfan365

and ps3 came out after xbox 360. It's probably because no one wants to pay to get online. If sony does drop the price, they should take the competition away and be leading xbox 360 in sales.

monkbaine

patsfan365 wrote:

and ps3 came out after xbox 360. It's probably because no one wants to pay to get online. If sony does drop the price, they should take the competition away and be leading xbox 360 in sales.

Who gives a shit if PS3 sales top 360? We should just give these systems respect for what they do right,and not concern with sales since those facts should only matter to Sony and Microsoft.

Emahevul

Notice that it is 20 million "registered accounts" not 20 million users. In reality, you're probably looking at 7-8 million users, each with multiple accounts. Microsoft can probably say something similar, with a correspondingly lower number of users.

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GStylez80

Emahevul wrote:

Notice that it is 20 million "registered accounts" not 20 million users. In reality, you're probably looking at 7-8 million users, each with multiple accounts. Microsoft can probably say something similar, with a correspondingly lower number of users.

The problem with your assessment is that its not backed up by actual facts. Instead, you choose to make an asinine guess into how many actual users use PSN. You even use the word "probably" twice, meaning that you don't actually KNOW anything. How about you stick to the numbers given by both Sony and Microsoft...20 million registered users on PSN vs. 17 million registered users on Live. Microsoft did not "probably say something similar." They gave a nice round number just like Sony.

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VictoryRed

A lot of those are people with multiple accounts, I'm sure. I've got three myself, one for each major territory.

jonathan8123

I had a friend where everyone came over and played his ps3. Me also. He had least 30 accounts and each one was online.

So its not to huge of a deal. I mean I guess its cool for them.

BTW was wondering can you move your Ps3 profile over to another system. Like the 360 recover.

Cause that makes us 360 users need only one account.

Not one for each friends house we go to. To play the account.

DaTrUtH

Well .. It's free , so I would expect most of the people to register..but did Sony even sell 20 million ps3? Not last time I heard. I'm interested to see who downloads more and which company has more users online more often.

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