Sony Interactive Leisure revealed in its current earnings name that half of PlayStation’s month-to-month lively gamers are taking part in on older consoles. The corporate has offered 59.2 million PS5s as of March 31, 2024, and mentioned that the 118 million month-to-month lively customers on PlayStation Community are break up between the PS5 and older consoles — primarily the PS4.
PlayStation gamers are nonetheless lively on the PS3 as effectively
The tidbit above was highlighted by journalist Stephen Totilo, who famous that Sony Group CFO Hiroki Totoki particularly highlighted this data in the course of the earnings name. The corporate is assured that PS5’s lively consumer base will enhance going ahead as gamers proceed to transition to the present gen.
Though PS4 claims the most important chunk of the 59 million lively gamers on older consoles, the PS3 consumer base can also be pretty lively, it appears. In line with a presentation leaked as a part of the notorious Insomniac Video games‘ ransomware assault, PS3 was nonetheless seeing as much as 2.3 million lively gamers till early 2023. This determine has probably gone down since then, however contemplating the console’s age, it’s fairly spectacular.
Sony didn’t actually help the PS Vita, however we’re positive some devoted customers are nonetheless taking part in on the forsaken handheld, contributing to the numbers above.
