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In his post celebrating the second birthday of PS3, SCEA marketing boss John Koller has claimed that 14 million people now have active PSN accounts worldwide.
There’s little doubt this confirmation is timed to coincide with the fact New Xbox Experience is launching tomorrow: to 14 million Live subscribers.
From the post, talking of advancements made with PSN in the last two years:
PlayStation Network has truly hit its stride with unique downloadable games and a video delivery service featuring movies, TV shows, and original programming that you can watch in HD with your PS3, or bring with you on your PSP. And with 14 million active accounts and 273 million pieces of content downloaded, we know that you’re thirsting for this digital entertainment.
Leave your handbags at the door, gents. This is a respectable establishment.
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G1GAHURTZ said:
I have a PSN account!
I don’t have a PS3 though, but if I ever do get one, at least I have my account name waiting for me…
Anyway, I wonder if this ‘boast’ is in any way influenced by Pachter’s recent ridiculing of PSN on Gametrailers.
He totally dismissed it and estimated you won’t even find 1 million people playing it simultaneously because everyone plays LIVE for their online gaming needs.
I think he’s probably right.
Gekidami said:
Being the 360 fanboy you are G1GA, you would agree with that…
G1GAHURTZ said:
I agree because it’s probably true.
morriss said:
Siny did this big, pre-sign up for PSN account name thing on your PC before launch didn’t they?
G1GAHURTZ said:
Yeah, that’s when I registered my username.
It must still be active, because they still send me spam.
Syrok said:
It will inactive by now. I think I read somewhere in the Terms and Conditions that they get deleted after half a year or a year of inactivity.
Shatner said:
“Siny”?
G1GAHURTZ said:
“It will inactive by now. I think I read somewhere in the Terms and Conditions that they get deleted after half a year or a year of inactivity.”
Yeah, it looks that way. I don’t seem to be able to sign in on Playstation.com.
morriss said:
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Smartypants said:
“It will inactive by now. I think I read somewhere in the Terms and Conditions that they get deleted after half a year or a year of inactivity.”
SRSLY??! Shit, I better turn on my PS3 ASAP before my entire account is deleted! Time to dust off that mofo
patlike said:
It’s fucking dead today. I might make something up.
G1GAHURTZ said:
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
TAKE THAT EVIL ADVERT OFF!!!!!!!!!!
EEEEYYYAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
G1GAHURTZ said:
Phew, It’s gone now.
Those things are the most obtrusive, annoying things ever!
…
NOOO!!! It keeps coming back!?!?!?!
Esha said:
“SRSLY??! Shit, I better turn on my PS3 ASAP before my entire account is deleted! Time to dust off that mofo”
If it were true that your PS3 hadn’t been used in six months (and allow me to stress, half a year is a bloody long time) then you wouldn’t even care about the status of your PSN account, even if it was being declared inactive.
In short: That was a sickeningly transparent effort at being “clever”, and it didn’t really work. If you feel you need to scrape the barrel to uphold your nickname, then get a new nickname.
Edit: pat, keep the ads, love the ads.
Johnny Cullen said:
“It’s fucking dead today. I might make something up.”
I beg to differ… mostly.
http://gamzsonev3.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/rumor-sony-signs-media-molecule-to-a-3-game-deal-on-playstation-3/
http://gamzsonev3.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/rumor-halo-3-recon-to-be-sold-on-xbox-livemarketplace/
morriss said:
This EndWar ad is my favourite so far.
G1GAHURTZ said:
Hey pat, I got some news for ya!
Boring as it may be, COD:WAW is the UK’s 3rd fastest selling game ever.
I might have told you more, but that new advert makes me not want to be nice to you ever again.
Quiiick said:
@ G1GAHURTZ
What Pachter said in the most recent episode of “Bonus Round” is bullshit.
It may not be 14 million but just 1 million can’t be. My guess is that it’s around 6-10 million active users.
G1GAHURTZ said:
Nah, the way I understood it, he was talking about how many people are ever playing on PSN at one time.
So you might have 14 million active users, but the majority of them rarely ever play online.
So whereas on LIVE, you get some days where over 1 million people are playing Halo 3, or COD4, or Gears 2 just on their own, never mind all of the other people playing other games, Pachter seemed to be suggesting that you’ll rarely find more than 1 million on PSN at one time in total.
As he said, Sony have never released figures to contradict this, so I wouldn’t be suprised if the number was as low as that.
patlike said:
It’s on my list, G1. Yeah, you’ll have to bear with us on the ads, I’m afraid. We need the gravy.
G1GAHURTZ said:
LOL, very frank!
I like it.
Johnny Cullen said:
Pat, can you see the comment I posted earlier.
I linked you to two post I wrote for my gaming blog but it doesn’t show on the comment box at the latest comments.
I send them to you if you can’t see them at your news site.
patlike said:
Sec, I’ll check the mod box in the back end. It tends to eat comments with links. Hang on.
patlike said:
There you go. Saw both of those this morning, but they seemed very rumoury to me. Ta, though.