40 Million Online PS3 Gamers? Probably not.
40 Million users? Maybe not.
SCEA President, Jack Tretton, announced last week that “We’ve successfully established that we’re not just a disc-based powerhouse, but we’re also a digital powerhouse.” While there aren’t many people who would discount that he followed this with an assertion that the Playstation 3 user base has inflated to “more than 40 million”.
This statement has been met with a big pinch of salt by Sony gamers who themselves openly admit to having many user names on their PlayStation’s. Several gamers were openly discussing the virtues of having European, Japanese and US gamer accounts while some younger gamers even claimed they were using several accounts to accommodate adult content online and to by pass parental controls.
The gaming community points to the original xBox and how, through successful IP’s such as Halo 2, they gained a huge slice of the online market in the previous generation of consoles. For Sony to report such bullish figures is positive news for the Playstation community and the console competition.
All this points to a huge uptake in the online community for gaming with the current generation; with gamers subverting restrictions in region limits to access exclusive content in different areas of PSN internationally. With PSN access remaining a free service to the Playstation gamers that shows no sign of slowing down.
Posted: February 15th, 2010
by Timo
Tagged with Playstation 3, Playstation Network
Categories: Gaming
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