Sony Interactive Leisure revealed in its latest earnings name that half of PlayStation’s month-to-month energetic gamers are enjoying on older consoles. The corporate has bought 59.2 million PS5s as of March 31, 2024, and stated that the 118 million month-to-month energetic customers on PlayStation Community are break up between the PS5 and older consoles — primarily the PS4.
PlayStation gamers are nonetheless energetic on the PS3 as nicely
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 energetic person base will improve going ahead as gamers proceed to transition to the present gen.
Though PS4 claims the most important chunk of the 59 million energetic gamers on older consoles, the PS3 person base can also be pretty energetic, it appears. In accordance 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 energetic gamers till early 2023. This determine has possible 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 enjoying on the forsaken handheld, contributing to the numbers above.