Is Sony Missing 1.5 Million PlayStation Network Users?
Jack Tretton positive on the future
Sony Computer Entertainment's America president Jack Tretton has been speaking at the recent Web 2.0 conference about the PlayStation Network hack, among other things. He points out that: "The recovery from that network outage was very dependent on social networking."
He then details some figures saying, "We got 94% consumers back immediately after the network went up and we got three million consumers since then..."
We're crunching numbers here... but first we're looking at the figures for users that Sony said it had before the hack in April.
77 million.
94% of 77 million is 72.38 million. So doesn't that mean that, with the additional three million, PSN now has roughly 75.5 million users or a deficit of 1.5 million? Maybe Mr Tretton's just being woolly with exact numbers?
This might mean that the August press release in which it announced, "SCEE Announces PlayStation Network PLAY" that stated:
"With the huge increase in interest and accessibility of network applications and network gaming, more than 77 million accounts have registered to PlayStation Network, the free-to-access interactive environment, and over 1.43 billion items have been downloaded."
Might need a word tweak? Because, although it's true, 77 million registered users have been there since launch, it could be that 1.5million of them now aren't?
Full thing here.
He then details some figures saying, "We got 94% consumers back immediately after the network went up and we got three million consumers since then..."
We're crunching numbers here... but first we're looking at the figures for users that Sony said it had before the hack in April.
77 million.
94% of 77 million is 72.38 million. So doesn't that mean that, with the additional three million, PSN now has roughly 75.5 million users or a deficit of 1.5 million? Maybe Mr Tretton's just being woolly with exact numbers?
This might mean that the August press release in which it announced, "SCEE Announces PlayStation Network PLAY" that stated:
"With the huge increase in interest and accessibility of network applications and network gaming, more than 77 million accounts have registered to PlayStation Network, the free-to-access interactive environment, and over 1.43 billion items have been downloaded."
Might need a word tweak? Because, although it's true, 77 million registered users have been there since launch, it could be that 1.5million of them now aren't?
Full thing here.
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DrkStr 21 Oct 2011 12:43
1/2
Could be the difference between "accounts" and "users" of course,
Steviepunk 23 Oct 2011 12:04
2/2
Given that number of PS3s 'sold' by Sony is in the 50 millions, the number of PSN accounts is pretty meaning less in this case.
That 1.5 million users could be users that signed up but don't have a PS3 ( I created 2 PSN accounts when they opened it up for Euro registrations, however I've only ever used 1 of them to sign in).
Also, he only says that 94% of users came back immediately, that doesn't mean that the other 6% didn't come back at all. Nor does it state that he meant 94% of the total PSN registrations, it could just be 94% of the accounts that had been logging in during the months prior to the hack.
That 1.5 million users could be users that signed up but don't have a PS3 ( I created 2 PSN accounts when they opened it up for Euro registrations, however I've only ever used 1 of them to sign in).
Also, he only says that 94% of users came back immediately, that doesn't mean that the other 6% didn't come back at all. Nor does it state that he meant 94% of the total PSN registrations, it could just be 94% of the accounts that had been logging in during the months prior to the hack.