SCEI has announced that there are quite a lot of people registered on the PSN…
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.
Two of them are mine!
Comment by LordOfRuin — Feb 25, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
1 PS2 account is mine
1 PSP account is mine
5 PS3 accounts are mine
Comment by Carl — Feb 25, 2009 @ 12:14 pm
I have 2 and so does my brother-in-law.
Why would you need different accounts for your PS2 and PSP?
Comment by FurryFreak — Feb 25, 2009 @ 12:55 pm
1,943,126 of those “may” be mine…don’t quote me on that.
Comment by JohnSketch — Feb 25, 2009 @ 1:01 pm
@FurryFreak because I had these accounts before the PS3 was released, the PS2 codes dont work with the PSP and vice versa
Comment by Carl — Feb 25, 2009 @ 1:59 pm
Good point. I have a UK, Hong Kong, JP & US account for access to their goodies so 4 of these are mine.
Plus 1 PSP too.
Comment by Robothamster — Feb 25, 2009 @ 2:50 pm
You could have predicted the response to this press release within seconds!
Seconds (and thirds, and so on) being the operative word.
Regardless of multi-region accounts of any party, two of my kids had to register on the PlayStation Network twice as they originally had sub-accounts to my master account, but when Santa brought them a machine each they registered again (with their correct Date of Births as when setting-up the sub-accounts the information was not required).
However, because certain titles are not available to them using their true birth years (18+ titles are just absent from the ‘Store listings, for example), then they use both of their respective accounts on a daily basis.
Some titles do not let them play online with the newly created accounts either. We found this out trying to set-up a Local Area Network game of “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2”. The newly created accounts could not be used, but the sub-accounts could.
The kids each have a mix of Trophies gained in the different accounts, in majority, but not restricted to, activity when they play online & when they play offline.
Apart from our own arrangements due to necessity in order for them to continue playing the games they used to prior to the purchase of the new consoles, I know some people who register multiple times to have differing user names for each online multiplayer title they participate in. It should be expected that once “Killzone 2” is widely available (I’m expecting one, if not two, of my pre-orders to arrive tomorrow), then the total number of PlayStation Network accounts will rise exponentially.
I would really advise Sony to recall the release before the same response is repeated across every forum in a matter of days, if not hours.
BFN,
fp.
Comment by fanpages — Feb 25, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
I have four myself. 2 US, 1 EU, 1 JP PSN ID for their respective Stores. My sister than has 1 so that leaves my house hold with 5 total. I use my main PSN ID for my PS3 and PSP, the JP PSN ID is on my PS3 for various demos, and the EU ID was for a PSP demo that released early.
They’re free, I got to see some of the toys the other regions received before my region, and it’s great for PSP demos since the PSP isn’t supported very well in North America.
Comment by tdh — Feb 25, 2009 @ 9:57 pm
Yeah, I’ve got 4.. AU, US, JP, HK.
Looking at numbers like that, I wonder how often Sony think “can’t we charge even just $1 a month?”
Comment by Ricky — Feb 25, 2009 @ 11:39 pm
I would say there is probably at most, 10 million individual PS3 user accounts, possibly less.
If they are adding in PS2 accounts(What is the point) and PSP accounts(Surely they should just link them all in together now, or at least that is what I thought they did), then maybe that is another2-5 million for PSP.
However, if they are just basing this on PS3 accounts, then quite a high number have more than one account on different regions. I know I do.
Comment by Capeview — Feb 26, 2009 @ 10:54 am
Just wanted to add.
However, if they have somehow used each individual systems ID number as a point of reference and not basing it on actual accounts created, but system ID’s as one whole account, then 20 million is an awesome number.
Just a thought.
Comment by Capeview — Feb 26, 2009 @ 10:57 am
I’ve got three, that I know about, I probably had one for the PSP but I sold that. Maybe if Sony had given us an international store… with regional sections I might have only needed one ID but becasue SCEE is useless what do they expect.
Comment by Terry — Feb 26, 2009 @ 11:21 am
@Capeview: ..what, like the individual MAC address that’s broadcast all the time? No…. never. :p
Comment by fleinn — Mar 3, 2009 @ 5:52 am
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