(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); So apparently when your company loses half your users information and your company goes off line for weeks at a time AND you get sloppy second DLC from a competing console, you can still gain a lot of users. 3 million users to be exact. At the IFA Conference yesterday, Sony CEO Howard Stringer claimed that since the outage over 3 million PSN users have joined up. To put that in comparison there is only over two and a half million users just on Steam alone.


Whilst the numbers are a tad outrageous to say the least, Stringer had this to say, "We are aggressively expanding its content [and] have more than 3 million new customers since the network came back online, and sales are exceeding what we had before the cyber-attacks." Sony has definitely stepped up it's game and with the love and support Valve has given them since the attacks, next year might be Sony's time to shine.


Howard was talking about 2011 saying "we at Sony have been flooded, we've been flattened, we've been hacked, we've been singed. But the summer of our discontent is behind us."

Stringer also revealed launch information for Sony's Tablet S device, which will be priced at $499 and $599 at launch - the same as Apple's market-leading iPad. Some people are already speculating that the tablet and the Vita will share cross platform apps and games, as well as a few games from Sony's back catalogue - basically Crash Bandicoot almost anywhere you want him to be.

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what you thik guys?

true?
Lie?

3million new users? Sony should get hacked more often.

I suppose all of the attention from the news got them noticed, even if it was bad, they got new users. Also they did give away a lot of free stuff. If this is to do with more accounts, rather than users, then quite a lot of people made another account to get more games, so maybe that has something to do with it.

yh those 3 million users were the ones making new accounts because they couldnt remember their email/password

OR 3 million peoples normal accounts were to much hassle to obtain back.

Maybe 1.5 millions bought a new ps3 cuz custom firmware and the firmware of their consoles was on 3.60 :lol:
and the other 1.5 made new accs becuase they couldn´t get back their originals accs haha :carling:

yea, i think its 3 million new psn accounts, not ps3's sold...

Think about it. A single ps3 can have up to 7 accounts. That means that 428,572 were purchased assuming that no one that had an existing ps3 made a new account. The attack was April 22. That's 4.4 months ago, or 135 days. That's about 3,175 PS3 units being sold each day since the first day that the network went down. That would mean that there were 1058 sold each day in America, 1058 sold in Europe and 1058 sold in China each day. This seems possible, but it probably didn't happen like that. Chances are, most people that already had multiple accounts couldn't recover all of them. So they deleted them from their system and made 6 new ones. That takes the number of sold ps3's down by a lot. I'd say we half all those numbers. So 214286 ps3's sold since the attack. 1588 units sold daily. 529 sold in America, 529 sold in Europe and 529 sold in china daily. Now there are probably more places that sold them, but that's still close enough. I don't think that there would be that many sales after a big attack. Maybe sony members created multiple accounts to boost the number of accounts

P.S. That math took some a crap load of time

Possibility true because some people had random info & didn't know what to do so the only option was to make a new account.

i agree with you.

maybe half of that accounts are from user with fake info, and want to start again.

but if this is true, wow.