Thu, Jan 15, 2009 | 09:00 GMT
Sony clarifies 17 million PSN users claim
MTV has revealed that the 17 million subscribers to PSN that Sony announced at CES09 last week includes people who have created an account on the website, PS3 and PSP.
MTV said its eyebrows were raised after Sony announced the figure and decided to contact the company for clarification
“The PSN numbers (17M and 2.1M) include people who have created accounts on PS3, the Web site and PSP,” said a Sony rep.
“Note that since the implementation of single sign-on, PSN ID and PlayStation Underground IDs (which were often created at the same time when first making a PSN ID) were automatically merged and rolled over.”
“Additionally, since PSN is a free online gaming service, some households create multiple IDs so that a father can keep a separate list of friends, trophies and stats from that of his daughter for example,” added the spokesperson.
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By Mike Bowden
4 comments
#1
Blerk
15/01/09, 9:08 am
Let the back-pedalling begin!
#2
DrDamn
15/01/09, 9:27 am
Wasn’t this always the assumption? It was the same last time they game out numbers.
It would be nice if MS let Gold subs have multiple accounts on each machine. Would certainly help break into the family market a bit more. If you’ve got 3 kids who all want to play online as themselves that gets quite expensive.
#3
Blerk
15/01/09, 9:29 am
It would be even nicer if Microsoft would tell us what the ratio of Gold to Silver users is.
#4
Psychotext
15/01/09, 11:10 am
@DrDamn: Yeah, that 1 per user thing is REALLY annoying. I don’t see why they couldn’t use a similar system to XBLA games… if the account is local to the machine at the time then everyone could get access to Live gold on the console.
@Blerk: Yeah, all we know is that the “majority” of Live users are on gold accounts.