Comments on: Sony claims 14 million active PSN accounts

By: patlike

patlike — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:55:43 +0000

There you go. Saw both of those this morning, but they seemed very rumoury to me. Ta, though.

By: patlike

patlike — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:53:10 +0000

Sec, I’ll check the mod box in the back end. It tends to eat comments with links. Hang on.

By: Johnny Cullen

Johnny Cullen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:51:01 +0000

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.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:49:45 +0000

LOL, very frank!

I like it.

By: patlike

patlike — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:40:57 +0000

It’s on my list, G1. Yeah, you’ll have to bear with us on the ads, I’m afraid. We need the gravy.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:40:49 +0000

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.

By: Quiiick

Quiiick — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:31:58 +0000

@ 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.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:28:35 +0000

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.

By: morriss

morriss — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:25:11 +0000

This EndWar ad is my favourite so far.

By: Johnny Cullen

Johnny Cullen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:13:40 +0000

“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/

By: Esha

Esha — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:13:13 +0000

“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.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:10:41 +0000

Phew, It’s gone now.

Those things are the most obtrusive, annoying things ever!

…

NOOO!!! It keeps coming back!?!?!?!

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:09:14 +0000

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

TAKE THAT EVIL ADVERT OFF!!!!!!!!!!

EEEEYYYAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: patlike

patlike — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:05:25 +0000

It’s fucking dead today. I might make something up.

By: Smartypants

Smartypants — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:49:31 +0000

“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

By: morriss

morriss — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:32:12 +0000

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:30:25 +0000

“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.

By: Shatner

Shatner — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:23:42 +0000

“Siny”?

By: Syrok

Syrok — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:20:35 +0000

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.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:12:06 +0000

Yeah, that’s when I registered my username.

It must still be active, because they still send me spam.

By: morriss

morriss — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:07:28 +0000

Siny did this big, pre-sign up for PSN account name thing on your PC before launch didn’t they?

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:05:00 +0000

I agree because it’s probably true.

By: Gekidami

Gekidami — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:02:28 +0000

Being the 360 fanboy you are G1GA, you would agree with that…

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:58:22 +0000

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.