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Phantasy Star Online Reaches Big Number

by Steven Rodriguez - November 22, 2003, 10:49 am EST
Total comments: 6 Source: Sega of Japan

From the Dreamcast to the GameCube, a lot of gamers have been, er... phulfilling their phantasies.

With Phantasy Star Online III: C.A.R.D. Revolution due out in Japan next week, Sega thought it would be a good idea to remind everyone of the success that the previous games in the series had.

From the first game in the series for the Dreamcast, up until the beginning of this month, the total amount of registered players across all versions and systems (including the GameCube's PSO Ver. 1&2) has hit 600,000. This number only signifies how many people registered, and doesn't necessarily mean there are currently that many PSO players right now, or that that many people own a copy of a game.

However, that is a pretty nice number for the first big online console game series, and will only get bigger when PSO III hits Japan on Thursday, and North America next year.

Talkback

MorgonNovember 22, 2003

Of course, they won't admit the entire reason has to do with the homebrew GC scene.

Backdoors make games great. Developers take note. face-icon-small-wink.gif

PIACNovember 23, 2003

well i own PSO for PSOff, i'll get around to being online one day, i wouldn't mind trying to run som emulated stuff on my GC, chronotrigger maybe? ^_^ that will teach square to not release it here...

KDR_11kNovember 23, 2003

I think Sega posted those numbers after Square-Enix started to brag about how they now have as many users in FF11 as in Everquest (400k).

THE_BLINK_EFFECTNovember 23, 2003

yeah most of the people who bought it would have been 4 playing copied games and Homebrew s**t!!!

KDR_11kNovember 24, 2003

Those, however, wouldn't need to register with Sega, do they?

MorgonNovember 24, 2003

No, that's a good point. I missed the fact that they said 'registered' and not just 'purchased'. However, I'm sure that many people still registered.. it doesn't require a credit card just to register the copy, does it? Been a while since I had to mess with all that.

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