The PlayStation 5 has been around for a few years now, but the PlayStation 3, which is now very old, is apparently still in demand among many gamers.
If you thought that pretty much no one was using the PlayStation 3 anymore, you were probably mistaken. New information about the use of the very old Sony console has now emerged from the massive leak at Insomniac Games, which is known to have fallen victim to a hack.
The leaked data also contained statistics that revealed that the PlayStation 3 still has millions of active users – more than 15 years after its original launch. How PlayStation Lifestyle Based on the leaked statistics, the platform still had almost two million active users per month in February 2023. In the period from December 2022 to February 2023, the active player numbers on the PS3 fluctuated between 1.9 and 2.3 million gamers.
A number of players are likely to still use the old console because many classics from earlier days simply cannot be played on newer consoles. Only the most expensive PS Plus Premium level can be used to play various selected PS3 titles via streaming.
The leak also included figures for the more recent Sony consoles. The PlayStation 4 had 71.5 million monthly active PSN users in the same period, while the newer PlayStation 5 had 37.1 million monthly active players at that time.