PlayStation Network's Typical User Is 28, Male, Educated, Moneyed

meatball · 09-01-2009, 02:25 PM

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Are you the typical PlayStation Network user? It depends on whether you match the criteria shared by U.S. PSN director of operations Eric Lempel to the publication Video Business.

Lempel was discussing the PS3 and PSP's PlayStation Network, which Sony says now has more than 12/5 million users (It's unclear if the current count includes people who have only registered online to use the PlayStation forums and not through Sony gamign hardware).

VB : Who is the PlayStation Network audience?

Lempel : Right now, it's primarily male. The average age is 28 years old, in usually the middle- to higher-income range. They over-index against those with graduate degrees. But it's expanding. What we're finding ever since we've introduced services like the video download service, we're getting more of the household on the PlayStation Network. Some of the top rentals and sales on the video side have been content that probably doesn't appeal exactly to that 28-year-old male. It's more those movies that are geared toward women.

http://kotaku.com/5350396/playstatio...ucated-moneyed

I cant find anything about the 360 or wii, should be interesting to compare.
Although I'm betting the 360 userbase is 90% teenagers with some kind of tourette's disorder limited to words like fuck you and f-a-g-g-o-t

Bash · 09-01-2009, 02:31 PM

source?

BTW Is "moneyed" even a word?

meatball · 09-01-2009, 02:33 PM

Damn, edited

I think moneyed is a piss-take

**shorty920** · 09-01-2009, 04:34 PM

I am 17, not fully educated, and don't have a job. But of course I lied about my info and said I was 48 and made up a bunch of other stuff just so I could play online.

Bash · 09-01-2009, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by shorty920

I am 17, not fully educated, and don't have a job. But of course I lied about my info and said I was 48 and made up a bunch of other stuff just so I could play online.

Same

**Raz** · 09-01-2009, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by shorty920

I am 17, not fully educated, and don't have a job. But of course I lied about my info and said I was 48 and made up a bunch of other stuff just so I could play online.

This.

No way is that info anywhere near accurate.

Useless Twit · 09-01-2009, 06:18 PM

I'm 17 and put I was 24.

Renegade · 09-01-2009, 06:21 PM

Sounds like Lethal...

**shorty920** · 09-01-2009, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Renegade

Sounds like Lethal...

Lol you're right!

This fit's Lethal's description perfectly. Of course he probably won't admit that he downloads feminine video content.

Noctis · 09-01-2009, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Raz

This.

No way is that info anywhere near accurate.

Of course if you guys had put your real age, the result would've been totally different.

I think this is pretty accurate, the last survey said the average age of PS3 owners was 25 to 35, while 360 owners was 11 to 17, and we're on a 360 forum so of course there's going to be kids that lied about their age to play online without their mum's permission, but it's not representative of the 20-something million PS3 owners.