wraggster
March 3rd, 2011, 23:40
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It's tough to get solid numbers out of Sony for hardware sales, usually they're cloaked behind a vague "shipped" figure, but at GDC (http://www.engadget.com/tag/gdc) this week the company gave us one rather impressive number: 41 million. That's the number of PS3 (http://www.engadget.com/tag/ps3) consoles the company says it has sold worldwide, and over 80 percent are sucking down data from ye olde internet. Confirming the moneymaking trend we heard about last month (http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/03/sony-posts-1-64-billion-profit-playstation-has-strong-holiday/), in 2010 the PlayStation store saw a 60 percent boost in traffic and a 70 percent boost in revenue from a total of 70 million PSN (http://www.engadget.com/tag/psn) accounts. Let's see... 70 million PSN user accounts, 41 million PS3 consoles, 80 percent of which are online -- that means almost everyone has one account for gaming and a second for griefing. Sounds about right.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/03/sony-celebrates-ps3-success-at-gdc-41-million-sold-worldwide/
It's tough to get solid numbers out of Sony for hardware sales, usually they're cloaked behind a vague "shipped" figure, but at GDC (http://www.engadget.com/tag/gdc) this week the company gave us one rather impressive number: 41 million. That's the number of PS3 (http://www.engadget.com/tag/ps3) consoles the company says it has sold worldwide, and over 80 percent are sucking down data from ye olde internet. Confirming the moneymaking trend we heard about last month (http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/03/sony-posts-1-64-billion-profit-playstation-has-strong-holiday/), in 2010 the PlayStation store saw a 60 percent boost in traffic and a 70 percent boost in revenue from a total of 70 million PSN (http://www.engadget.com/tag/psn) accounts. Let's see... 70 million PSN user accounts, 41 million PS3 consoles, 80 percent of which are online -- that means almost everyone has one account for gaming and a second for griefing. Sounds about right.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/03/sony-celebrates-ps3-success-at-gdc-41-million-sold-worldwide/