PS3 install base up to nearly 24 million
by Griffin McElroy 
on Aug 3rd 2009 10:00PM
According to some recently released statistics from Sony, the
worldwide install base for the PlayStation 3 is now 23.8 million strong. From a fact
we learned earlier in June, we can extrapolate from these recent numbers that almost
eight million people are currently being
Quincied in PlayStation Home. Furthermore, assuming everyone owns one controller, there's more than
144 million axes of motion control floating around out there. (Axis'? Axises?)
From these numbers, we can also determine that the PS3 is currently lagging behind its Console War adversaries -- the Wii is
sporting nearly the same number of users in the U.S. alone, and the
Xbox 360 hit 28 million users earlier this year. Hey, that just makes it more
underground, you know? It's edgy and exclusive, like that hip bar that doesn't let you or your friends in, because it's too full of well-dressed, attractive people.
