Sony has moved to clarify a statement made at last week’s Consumer Electronics Show, in which the platform holder announced a total of 17 million subscribers for PlayStation Network.
Speaking to MTV, a company spokesperson revealed that the number included accounts that have been created not only on PlayStation 3, but also via the Internet and PlayStation Portable.
“The PSN numbers (17M and 2.1M) include people who have created accounts on PS3, the Web site and PSP,” he said.
“Note that since the implementation of single sign-on, PSN ID and PlayStation Underground IDs (which were often created at the same time when first making a PSN ID) were automatically merged and rolled over.”
“Additionally, since PSN is a free online gaming service, some households create multiple IDs so that a father can keep a separate list of friends, trophies and stats from that of his daughter for example,” he added.