Sony Claims 14 Million PSN Accounts

[QUOTE="BIOWAREISKING"][QUOTE="skrat_01"]People can have multiple XBL accounts too......Tjeremiah1988

to get 3 months free, YES..And it funny how u spin it to ACTIVE.

He is correct there are loads of user who have muliplr accounts in xbox live

Go look at halo 3 community for example

[QUOTE="skrat_01"][QUOTE="BIOWAREISKING"]most people have multiple accounts for region specific dlc/demos. k/s ratios and other family members. so color me not impressedpi3m4ster

dude it's 13 million SUBSCRIBERS i.e gold members lol :|

[QUOTE="pi3m4ster"][QUOTE="pi3m4ster"]People can have multiple XBL accounts too......pi3m4ster

dude it's 13 million SUBSCRIBERS i.e gold members lol :|

denial much? :lol:

[QUOTE="Tjeremiah1988"]

[QUOTE="BIOWAREISKING"]your telling me a large group of xbox live users have multiple ACTIVE accounts. whatever helps man:lol:BIOWAREISKING

to get 3 months free, YES..And it funny how u spin it to ACTIVE.

well you do need a gold account to get demos early and play online which was my major points.

Obviously someone can use up those 3 months and then decide to pick one of those accounts and pay the 50 bucks. :|

[QUOTE="pi3m4ster"][QUOTE="pi3m4ster"]

 

to get 3 months free, YES..And it funny how u spin it to ACTIVE.

pi3m4ster

Me and my brother have over 6 active accounts lol thats 6 months xbox live free for us. 

Um no not if you repeat the process when free trial runs out. Fail 

Sony also claimed 4D graphics and 120 frames per second.  :roll:

I guarantee you the average PS3 owner has 3 PSN accounts, US, EU, JP.

Remember with XBL I believe they region locked it so it's harder to make different accounts and also it's a myth that you can create infinite XBL accounts just to get infinite free months of gold, there's a limit.

With PSN, it's not region locked and you could make infinite PSN accounts.  If you wanted to you could probably make 14 million PSN accounts yourself.

[QUOTE="pi3m4ster"][QUOTE="pi3m4ster"]

 

Me and my brother have over 6 active accounts lol thats 6 months xbox live free for us. 

pi3m4ster

Um no not if you repeat the process when free trial runs out. Fail 

then the other 5 accounts aren't active. fail

Sony also claimed 4D graphics and 120 frames per second. :roll:

I guarantee you the average PS3 owner has 3 PSN accounts, US, EU, JP.

Remember with XBL I believe they region locked it so it's harder to make different accounts and also it's a myth that you can create infinite XBL accounts just to get infinite free months of gold, there's a limit.

With PSN, it's not region locked and you could make infinite PSN accounts. If you wanted to you could probably make 14 million PSN accounts yourself.

 

 

ReverseCycology

[QUOTE="ReverseCycology"]

Sony also claimed 4D graphics and 120 frames per second. :roll:

I guarantee you the average PS3 owner has 3 PSN accounts, US, EU, JP.

Remember with XBL I believe they region locked it so it's harder to make different accounts and also it's a myth that you can create infinite XBL accounts just to get infinite free months of gold, there's a limit.

With PSN, it's not region locked and you could make infinite PSN accounts. If you wanted to you could probably make 14 million PSN accounts yourself.

 

 

JLF1

I didn't say that but now that I thought about it I think the majority of people here on GS and people that goes on gaming forums have multiple PSN accounts.

all of these figures are so skewed.

with live we dont know if they are including gold and silver or just gold

also we dont know how many of those accounts belong to the same person

same goes for psn we dont know how many people have multiple accounts.

i could care less about how many people are on what. As long as i can find people to play against in one of my games im fine.

[QUOTE="JLF1"][QUOTE="ReverseCycology"]

Sony also claimed 4D graphics and 120 frames per second. :roll:

I guarantee you the average PS3 owner has 3 PSN accounts, US, EU, JP.

Remember with XBL I believe they region locked it so it's harder to make different accounts and also it's a myth that you can create infinite XBL accounts just to get infinite free months of gold, there's a limit.

With PSN, it's not region locked and you could make infinite PSN accounts. If you wanted to you could probably make 14 million PSN accounts yourself.

 

 

ReverseCycology

I didn't say that but now that I thought about it I think the majority of people here on GS and people that goes on gaming forums have multiple PSN accounts.

[QUOTE="pi3m4ster"][QUOTE="pi3m4ster"] actually if you have all 6 active that's only 1month of xbox live free. failpi3m4ster

Um no not if you repeat the process when free trial runs out. Fail

then the other 5 accounts aren't active. fail

Oh yes they are. Fail

Sony also claimed 4D graphics and 120 frames per second. :roll:

I guarantee you the average PS3 owner has 3 PSN accounts, US, EU, JP.

Remember with XBL I believe they region locked it so it's harder to make different accounts and also it's a myth that you can create infinite XBL accounts just to get infinite free months of gold, there's a limit.

With PSN, it's not region locked and you could make infinite PSN accounts. If you wanted to you could probably make 14 million PSN accounts yourself.

ReverseCycology

Actually there is a limit on PSN for making accounts as well its like 10 or 15. I met a wierd kid on SC4 who made new names for each game he got and he reached his limit and had to call Sony to delete his accounts.

You are assuming that the majority of the gamers are super hardcore gamers on the PS3 that even know that the US, EU, and JP store have different stuff. Most people I meet dont and when they see me playing a demo not in the NA store they wonder how. Both systems have their skews, MS wont specify Silver or Gold and people can have multiple accounts on those as well.

dude it's 13 million SUBSCRIBERS i.e gold members lol :|

denial much? :lol:

[QUOTE="pi3m4ster"][QUOTE="pi3m4ster"]

 

dude it's 13 million SUBSCRIBERS i.e gold members lol :|

pi3m4ster

denial much? :lol:

huh?

I love how cows try to pass everything a Sony exec off as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. This is just another obvious attempt at spin. Just like how they tried to tell everyone at E3 Sony doesn't beleive in just putting games on PSN just to brag about how many we have, we like to put games on people like to play. When XBLAoffers a bigger and better library...AlphaGamer469

by a better library that is your opinion and the rest of your post is full of irony.

well it is free so why wouldnt you use psn if you have a ps3njean777

Exactly, why is it so hard to believe?

Sony also claimed 4D graphics and 120 frames per second.  :roll:

I guarantee you the average PS3 owner has 3 PSN accounts, US, EU, JP.

Remember with XBL I believe they region locked it so it's harder to make different accounts and also it's a myth that you can create infinite XBL accounts just to get infinite free months of gold, there's a limit.

With PSN, it's not region locked and you could make infinite PSN accounts.  If you wanted to you could probably make 14 million PSN accounts yourself.

 

 

ReverseCycology

i don't recall them claiming 4d graphics 120 fps, but they did claim good 3D graphics  60 FPS and 1080p which Microsoft swore wasn't possible untill seeing sony do it first. 

Some people (me included) do have multiple accuonts but I doubt it's enough to really skew the figure of 14 million. That's pretty impressive, around the same amount as XBL now, despite being a younger service.Floppy_Jim

[QUOTE="ReverseCycology"]

Sony also claimed 4D graphics and 120 frames per second. :roll:

I guarantee you the average PS3 owner has 3 PSN accounts, US, EU, JP.

Remember with XBL I believe they region locked it so it's harder to make different accounts and also it's a myth that you can create infinite XBL accounts just to get infinite free months of gold, there's a limit.

With PSN, it's not region locked and you could make infinite PSN accounts. If you wanted to you could probably make 14 million PSN accounts yourself.

ronniepage588

i don't recall them claiming 4d graphics 120 fps, but they did claim good 3D graphics 60 FPS and 1080p which Microsoft swore wasn't possible untill seeing sony do it first.

Besides PSN and XBL Arcade games, Niehter the PS3 or 360 have managed 1080P native and 60FPS at the same time on any full fleged retail games. There some some 1080P retail games, but most are sports games and support few advanced graphics tehcnologies and are not constant 60FPS.

Lol wonder how much sony made from all those accounts o wait.

A free service on a nearly equally sold device has more subscribers than one that costs money?

Shocker.

They should have as many PSN accounts as there are consoles considering it is free and it has built in wireless. No real news here.

If they want to impress us, give us a report on how many downloads they are having per month, how many on-line matches they are having, etc. I doubt it even comes close to what XBL is generating.

I had three accounts. One real one, one Euro account for the Mirror's Edge demo, and my girlfriend has one for LBP.SpruceCaboose

^ This.

most people have multiple accounts for region specific dlc/demos. k/s ratios and other family members. so color me not impressedBIOWAREISKING

[QUOTE="skrat_01"][QUOTE="BIOWAREISKING"]most people have multiple accounts for region specific dlc/demos. k/s ratios and other family members. so color me not impressedBIOWAREISKING

what about WOW

Michael Pachter got owned, he said he didnt even think 1 million.EVOLV3

Michael Pachter always gets owned, he said Wii Music would sell tons.

Free service plus the option to make multiple accounts = nothing to brag about.

Nice try trying to take some hype away from the NXE launch in 8 hours, Sony! :roll: 

[QUOTE="skrat_01"][QUOTE="BIOWAREISKING"]most people have multiple accounts for region specific dlc/demos. k/s ratios and other family members. so color me not impressedBIOWAREISKING

umm you dont need a gold account to download demos....I have a active US gold account...but i also have a silver euro account, and a silver japan account. Those silver accounts are for me to download either demos that the US marketplace didnt have or if the demo came out first in the euro/ japan marketpalce.....

saying only PSN users do this is just silly. TONS of xbox live members do this. Especially people from Europe that want demos from the US. 

I can guarantee if there was a fee for PSN there would only be like 5 million accounts to be optimistic.  PSN is good enough because it's free but it's not good enough and wouldn't be worth paying for.

Anyway I have 5 PSN accounts, actually just 3 accounts, US, EU, JP, but I said 5 because I deleted 2 PSN IDs because you can't change your PSN ID you need to make a new one instead.

So great, we all have a lot of people to play with, so we all come out winning, but which company has the advantage here? Sony or Microsoft? I'm pretty sure Sony wouldn't mind having at least half of those 14 million paying at least 1 buck a year.

Sony said it themselves that they would charge for online play if need be. in no way am I looking for that article so don't ask. and I'm not trying to use this as some ownage, just being realistic here.

I've always felt that once Sony equals or surpasses the Live subscribers that they would start to charge as well. why not? where the hell are Sony fans gonna go? PC? they would be there already, they aren't going MS Live, and I won't even go there with the Wii.

Thats just too much money for Sony to just let Microsoft reap the benefits of charging for online play.

I hope for Sony fans they don't, but I wouldn't blame Sony for doing it, they are in this business to make money.

I would really love to see what excuses Sony fans would come up with if it were to happen, but I REALLY wouldn't look forward to the insanity my fellow 360 owners would bring upon Sony fans. it would get really ugly and annoying fast. :(

either way, you guys all fight over silly crap anyway.

you guys keep crying! and I'll keep playing.

later everyone, time for me to get eaten by some Zombies! Left 4 Dead, here I come!

[QUOTE="EVOLV3"]Michael Pachter got owned, he said he didnt even think 1 million.Watercube

Michael Pachter always gets owned, he said Wii Music would sell tons.

bingo, I believe this was it. 

Free service plus the option to make multiple accounts = nothing to brag about.

Nice try trying to take some hype away from the NXE launch in 8 hours, Sony! :roll: 

krp008

the thing is that Xbox owners do the samething as mentioned earlier and MS counts silver (free) accounts also. And maybe sony wanted to clear it up after what Michael Pachter said. 

Honestly I think the amount of people with multiple accounts on either console is a minority outlier anyway.skrat_01

Agreed. How much they effect the statistic is probably negligible.

Free service plus the option to make multiple accounts = nothing to brag about.krp008

I think it's a because it's a free service that it so impressive. XBL is allegedly worth paying for over using PSN's free service and yet a rival consumership is flocking to PSN anyway.

And it's already been mentioned, but XBL allows multiple accounts as well.

most people have multiple accounts for region specific dlc/demos. k/s ratios and other family members. so color me not impressedBIOWAREISKING

their are plenty of psn and xbl accounts that arn't really used

most people have multiple accounts for region specific dlc/demos. k/s ratios and other family members. so color me not impressedBIOWAREISKING

I seriously doubt this. Many of the people here might. But common, normal gamers. Which make up about 80% of PS3 owners don't have multiples accounts, probably don't even know that they could make another one.

Though I still agree that the 14 million figure is probably somewhat inflated.