Sony's PSN Regional Beakdown, By The Numbers

Joystiq: "Wondering how at risk your country is percentage-wise for theft identity due to PlayStation Network's recent breach? This handy charted tweeted by 8-4's Mark MacDonald should help break down just that for you."

[iamnsuperman]

I might be picky here but Great Britain....no Northern Ireland as a separate category on the list.....so no one in NI have PSN

[Joni-Ice]

The UKraine only has 5,898.

[Winter47th]

Saudi Arabia 650.000 we're taking over your online gaming, bitchez ;p

[nanometric]

You are already brainwashed, albeit not by Sony.

[llMurcielagoll]

And yet Xbox LIVE doesn't have a Saudi Arabia as a locale in their network which make life harder on everyone there lol but that's not the case

651,000 accounts awesomeness!!! I didn't know that detail!

Next step is we get better internet providers! OMG OMG STC WOW 5mbps!! pfft

[WhitePolish]

Saudi Arabia 650.000. they need ps3 for something else . :(

[Winter47th]

Well I tried my friend's Fiber Optics from STC called Verve, it's 100mbps for the same price of a DSL line, granted it's rarer than hookers on a Friday afternoon but the ping's ridiculously good and by time it'll be available to every house in the country..except Ra's Tannoora or someshit.

As for Xbox Live it's a joke, you pay full price only to find 60% of the services blocked you from using them even if they're free (Netflix, Music, COD Map Packs, M-Rated arcade games, Games on Demand)

[HappyGaming]

Greece 210,000 thats not a lot at all... to many PC gamers here...

[additup28]

You know what the Ukraine is? It's a sitting duck, a road apple, Newman. The Ukraine is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on the Ukraine.

[hardcorehippiez]

im in northern ireland and yes we do have psn

[iamnsuperman]

Some person commented and said NI is in Great Britain. I think they are kinda confused with The UK but never mind

[Menech]

Am surprised the UK has more PSN accounts then Japan

[WhittO]

I think its more likely they classes NI just in Ireland, and Great Britain is on it's own...since they prob would've just called it United Kingdom if it included NI...

[WhittO]

Wow GB has second largest online PSN accounts in the world?!

I thought Japan would've been onto that haha.

[The_KELRaTH]

Yeah that was a wow for me too.

Thought it would have been USA, Japan, Germany, GB - we should demand our own game network region or English speaking only region so we don't have to listen to lots of foreign languages all the time.

Works great on the PC with English speaking only game servers.

[HolyOrangeCows]

"Wondering how at risk your country is percentage-wise for theft identity due to PlayStation Network's recent breach?"

Considering that the CC info was encrypted? 0%

[humbleopinion]

Identity theft is not credit cart theft. It's stealing someone's personal details (email address, account, passwords, etc) and pretending to be him/her.

Considering that all these details were not encrypted? Actual figure is probably going to be higher than 0%.

[Trey_4_life]

It seems its, united states, united kingdom and japan that has the most CC accounts on PSN.

[B00M]

Lots affected. And news4geeks, just shut the fuck up fool.

[Mcrmarcher]

The United Kingdom consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.GB consits of England, Scotland and Wales. Just incase anyone is confused.

[SonyNGP]

Bahrain has over 26k users?!
HOLY CRAP!

[AhmadCentral]

Bahrain has quite a big gaming market tbh. Its not massive but its big.

[SonyNGP]

Being a Bahraini, I'm fully aware of that. But it is rather surprising because Bahrain doesn't even have a Playstation Store :/

[Killzone3___]

Bahrain is an island , only 1 million in it more then half are indians and oter people from out side the country , so that's alot :P ... the gamers in there are really good , don't believe me ? .. come play against me :) ..

anyway , when they will turn on the psn , my brothers really bored , they come ask me everyday if the network is on or not .. the helicopters are shooting everyday and there is checkpoints every where that kidnap people and kill them or beat them and put them in prison so we can't go outside ,we want something to make the time go faster...

we live like felesteen , israel attack houses everday , same thing happening in here .. people{rulers} are really sick , loving money makes them blind..

[Ravenor]

Just like Felesteen.

[CrazyOrange]

I'm from Qatar but I don't have Qatari account!

[MidnytRain]

Wow! The United States tops them all off at 31,140,307.

[Projekt7tuning]

But the US is not the world. lol
s/k

[Tired]

You can take few off from the U.S.A list total, Myself and everyone I know also have a yank account, tied to an imaginary address in Beverly Hills, 90210 was the only zip code we didnt have to look up hehe.

Oh...I think I also live above or in a resteraunt nr Tokyo.

[BrianG]

Haha, I live somewhere in Europe and Japan as well, not sure really where.

But for real I live in the US. PA to be exact.

And for those with multiple accounts, I expect it, since everyone I know and myself have more than 1, but that goes for any service.

[starcb26]

I live in 8756 i love making fake accounts drive, houston, tx, 77054.

[phinch]

I'm from England and i have an American account also, didnt make a japan one as i did have a clue what i as doing

[The_KELRaTH]

lol true!!

Lucky we don't have to sue Sony as mines at Microsoft

[TheRag]

lol i have 4!!
1 american in beverly hills as well (maybe we're neighbors, who knows? xD)
1 japanese, 1 british (i live with the prime minister lol)
and 1 in israel, ofc..

[PhoenixDevil]

Yh same here got some random account for America. Interesting idea, if america comes back online before the UK does could I sign into my American and download the new firmware update early ?

Probably not worth it as there prob wont be too much time inbetween the reactivation of both

[agentace]

I live at 123 fake street(from the simpsons) new york

[The_Con-Sept]

Am I the only person with 6 master accounts? And with each having a lot of sub accounts? I made a lot of them. I made one for Australia, UK, Japan, Ireland, Mexico, and my main one. I wanted to see if certain places got content early but then back in 07-08 they restricted people from buying stuff on PSN out of their own country.

With all my sub accounts... I have like 20 some odd accounts. I used to write my own journalism and sent it to a few hundred people back in the day. TCSR was the name of it.

[Tr3y_4_Li43]

I have 5 accounts different. so....

[GrandTheftZamboni]

I have one PS3, one PSP. Had 60GB PS3 that died. One account for 3 devices for me.

[Christopher]

Surprised no GB numbers... or am I missing it?

[p_bateman]

i also live at beverley hills 90210

[postofficebuddy]

Surprisingly small number for Japan. PSP alone has sold more than double the number of PSN accounts, and that's including alt accounts.

[ZBlacktt]

Damn! The USA owns the gaming world, lol. whoa.

[farrelljade]

it is expected as americas population dwarfs the likes of GB's for instance!!

[Sprudling]

Norway has an insane amount of accounts per capita. More than both Japan and US. And that's not even considering some people have both Japanese and US accounts in addition to their real account.

[farrelljade]

actually i believe GB has the largest accounts per capita. im quite surprised how low japans is however!

[Sprudling]

I noticed. A little surprising considering the impression I've got that UK is the only place in EU where 360 is popular.

[Big_L]

Wow, US has 33 million

Talk about consumer culture

[phinch]

You can probably take 3-3.5 million off for all the EU and japan members that have a US account but yes with 29-30 million US has the highest

[Ascalon94]

damn I thought Canada would have more than that

[Ravenor]

Out of our small population 3 million is more then respectable. Also keep in mind how much of our population is "older", so really can't complain about a solid number like 3 million.

[Ascalon94]

oh wow I didnt realize you guys had about 35 million people, and yeah I understand. Here in the U.S. we are just a bunch of lazy fatasses XD. But yeah man Canada is the shit, you guys are cool.

[KeiserSosay4788]

Hong Kong is it's own country!?!?!? lol

[eggbert]

"Countires"

Wat?

[Der_Kommandant]

Many of us don't live in the states and we have a US account

[madara0sama]

That applies to everyone around the world tbh. I have multiple accounts, one for each major country.

[Legion]

Was it really that important to get this information out so quickly that they couldn't fix the title 'Regional Beakdown' really???? Sounds like a list of bird populations or something.

[earbus]

Ylod saved me from the hack.

[DWOM]

get the f outta here lol

[earbus]

true story got ylod a week before my copy of gt came win win.

[DWOM]

I belive u... I was just jokin around ;)

(notice the: lol thingy) lol

[Platinum_k]

HAD NO IDEA USA HAD SUCH A BIG INFLUENCE/INSTALL BASE ON THE SONY PS3...

WOW

[humbleopinion]

Not surprising, since we have people here set to auto-repeat the good old "US is not the world" every time we see NPD numbers.

Guess it's still a big slice of the pie...

[Platinum_k]

yeah... u said it bro

[saimcheeda]

the 9801 Oman PSN accounts!

[Joaquin27488]

Let's not forget, most countries use a US account to gain access to the store, and i'm pretty sure most US users trying to access the european store create an english PSN ID, therefore information from both countries might be as much as 50% fewer than it says there.

btw, i'm one of those 101k accounts from Argentina xD

[CaptainSheep]

@Joaqin: Agreed. A lot of people change their country to US. Here in Pakistan, where I live, there are A LOT of people who own a PS3. They have no choice but to choose US cuz' Pakistan's not listed in the countries. If not US, they choose Saudi Arabia (cuz it's another Muslim country).

[marc 1975]

how dya think they found bin laden... spose the world has sony to thank for that lol

[Killzone3___]

obama claim he killed him but i don't think it's true because the picture they put looks the same picture of him in 2009 , it's not true , the picture looks fake , if they really killed him { which we all want that} they would show more pictures of him to prove that , i don't even believe the DNA because we didn't even see the body , anyone can make a paper that say the DNA is the same , they really don't have a clue , i really wish it's true because he killed alots of people from around the world especially in iraq , he's not muslim , he kill innocent people , he kill womens and chidlreen , i really wish it's true but it doesn't look true , it's hard to believe things these days..

[hot111]

US has about 15 million PS3 sold(to consumers),so two accounts per console is average.

[hiredhelp]

At end of the day this pointless.
When they back tuning we be forced to Change passwords.
And if anyone has been hacked IF' you out pocket your bank should cover you well they do over in uk. And as 1 person said thousands of accounts there was soo many hackers that was doing this Be low % if you were victim .

[MattyTM]

hmmm dubious about this list

the fact that it's meant to be an official Sony list and yet they cannot spell Countries???

[Soplox]

Puerto Rico is included in US numbers right?

Saudi Arabia has PS3/PSN accounts? Now we know how they found Osama Bin Laden lol

[Damiann]

Netherlands here a lot of users for a small country:)

[BABY-JEDI]

I just wish everything was region free.
: (

[VanaTallinn]

yay :D theres no Estonia

[cheatcode78]

oh my sweet baby Jesus! That is baaaaaad news!

[The_KELRaTH]

No Chinese??? must be still farming on WoW lol