Before getting in to the gargantuan news that is the ‘NGP‘ during their PlayStation Meeting that just took place, Sony took a moment to recognise the PlayStation Network, and how important it has become to the PlayStation brand. They started by announcing that they “have exceeded over 69 million PSN accounts as of January 25th,” and went on to say that “more than 80% of PS3 consoles are connected to the internet.”
The latter I can believe, but the total number of PSN accounts is a little mind boggling. It was only a couple of weeks ago that Sony themselves announced that number to be at 60 million, but now it’s over 69? Sounds very strange to me, but then again, I don’t think anyone really knows exactly how those numbers are calculated.
DrNate86
80% connected online surely makes that killswitch more of a viable option for Sony against the hackers.
cc_star
80% of PS3 connected is pretty damn good, which puts the number of unique free accounts at 30-35m with the rest presumably being sub-accounts or alt-accounts, that’s still a pretty sizeable amount. What would be interested to find out is how many of those 30-35m are active
tonycawley
Howdid.you work that out? Surely there’s no way of knowing such a thing?
cc_star
What? The last we heard there was 40m+ PS3s in the wild, probably as high as 45m now. If there is 80% of them online that is ~35m online. So all other accounts must be sub or alt accounts. Easy to work out, of course a lot of people have had more than 1 PS3 because of either YLoD or an upgrade to the Slim.
Awayze
I’d say about 55 million accounts are probably the true count.
gazzagb
I’ve got 4 and I’m sure most other people have more than 1. I’m guessing that the user count is nearer to 30 million. Still, very impressive.
SpikeyMikey23
I have 4. A UK, Japanese, an american and another uk acount.
AllTheApesEscaped
Gotta remember they didn’t say 69 million ps3 based accounts, I have a different account on my PSP Go
icuyesido
a million of them will be people doing the GT5 birthday glitch! xD
Charmed_Fanatic
80% online is impressive!
TotalHitman
I’m guessing the Gran Turismo 5 car trading glitch and jailbreaks contributed to the boost in PSN accounts. Btw, I have made at least 10 PSN accounts since I got my PS3 just over 3 years ago.
stueeeee
Every little helps! My dad has one and he just uses it as a blu-ray and music player. Sometimes finds his way onto the Store to get a new wallpaper… I’m his only friend. And he’s set to auto sign in…..