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Sony PlayStation Network has 60 million accounts strong. It 'was a picture of a CEO Howard Stringer last night Sony CES foot – twice the number of over 30 million users of Xbox Live Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer touted just hours before.

Sony’s CES press conference in a long, covered with lots of eye candy that Engadget involved in every aspect of consumer electronics with the Sony label and the current liberal dose of 3D. In describing the growth and opportunities for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable gaming and multimedia, Stringer said that the PlayStation Network has surpassed 60 million accounts mark.

Stringer did not specify how those accounts are active or the ventilation of the PS3 and PSP. However, that 60 million figure is considerably higher score last year. At CES 2010, Stringer announced PHN had reached 38 million accounts.

It is a huge market for Sony Online said it plans to mine, with extended play, music, video products and PlayStation Home.

PS3 online service is completely free. So, how to make money? It does not. But now, thanks to some new decisions by Sony, could actually begin to turn a profit.

Microsoft could easily have made the network profitable, because it will charge those who want to play online to pay a heavy $ 60 per year. PS3 gamers will receive the same property for free.

But Sony needs to pay for those servers somehow. That’s why it charges only for premium content, like game downloads, movie rentals, and add-on content. It also recently launched a “PlayStation Plus” subscription service, giving players a constant stream of deals and free content in exchange for a monthly or annual cost.

It took a while for these kinds of sales to cover the cost of running hundreds of online games for free, but it looks like it’s finally working.

Customer payments through the PlayStation Network reached $434.3 million in the 2009 fiscal year, but Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai said in a Reuters interview that by FY2012, that will be $3.6 billion. And, “We’re aiming to enter the black during the 2011 fiscal year.”

This would mean that Sony can continue offering its online service free to the millions of PS3 owners. It will continue to be a competitive advantage for the system, which is poised to have its best year yet in 2011.

Xbox Live does not appear to reduce the cost of $ 60 per year, but if people are concerned about the prices finally start thinking about the next generation of consoles soon, you will easily realize that the PS3 is actually better decision long run.

Tokyo: After the media leaked the ‘Sony Playstation Phone ‘pictures, Sony officials announced that the company may launch a Playstation Phone.

Sony Financial chief Masaru Kato told that he could launch a PlayStation phone. Previously, the technology site Engadget published photos of alleged leaks Playstation phone.

According to the images were combined with the Sony Ericsson and Portable PlayStation game console. Engadget says the phone will work on the Playstation version of the Google Android gingerbread before. The phone has a 1 GHz processor and 3.7 inch screen,Snapdragon.

The Sony Playstation phone also has two cameras, a front for video calls. Rear camera can record in high definition recording with xneon Flash. For memory expansion Sony can use the micro SD card slot.