PSN Had a Record 123 Million Active Users in December 2023 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 09 January 2024 / 9,298 Views
Sony during its CES 2023 press conference on Monday announced a new record was set on the PlayStation Network with over 123 million monthly active users in December 2023.
The previous record was 112 million monthly active users in December 2022.
View Sony's CES 2024 press conference below:
Sony last month announced the PlayStation 5 surpassed 50 million units as of the week ending December 9, 2023. To compare, the PlayStation 4 reached 50 million units sold in 160 weeks, while it has taken the PS5 161 weeks.
The PlayStation 5 had sold over 40 million in July 2023, 30 million units in December 2022, 20 million units in June 2022 and 10 million units in July 2021.
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Catchy number
Great stuff as always Sony
Steam is sitting at 132~ million active users per month, will be interesting to see if/when the Playstation online network beats Steam.
The benefit of this generation is that old consoles don't get thrown-out or go unused, they end up repurposed in another room for another gamer to use, especially as there are very few true exclusives for the newer platforms.
Once the old devices start to get depreciated that may change, but PS5 sales would have picked up that slack.
I want to know the breakdown. I'd imagine the order is
- PS4
- PS5
- PS3
- Vita
- PSP (if any servers are even up)
There's a chance PS5 is higher than PS4 if a lot of PS4s are sitting inactive in a given month.
I believe its a culmination of all PS platforms throughout the month. And you can be a single user with the same PSN ID on all of them and it counts towards the overall total even though you are a single PSN user. Its because using the PS3 and PS4 and PS5 all are different platforms regardless if the same user ID on each. They look at the total of platform users, not the individual users themselves.
I used my PS3, 4, 5 and Vita throughout the month so Im counted 4 times.
ok who cares
I care. You clearly do too otherwise you wouldn't have said anything. Console war is over and it's all but confirmed Xbox is now bringing it's games to PS. This only happened because PS has so many MAU's that cant be ignored by Xbox.
"and it's all but confirmed Xbox is now bringing it's games to PS"
It is? Care to show where this is pretty much confirmed?.
The Rumours have gotten so big that thousands of people are talking about it on twitter and hundreds of thousands/ millions are seeing the tweets. Media outlets are reaching out to Xbox to comment on the rumours but Xbox are refusing to answer. If they had no plans to being their games over they would simply say "we have no plans to bring our games to rival platforms".
