Executive Summary
We analyzed 15 playstation communities listed on Hive Index to understand where people gather, what these groups offer, and which communities attract the most interest.
The big picture: playstation has many smaller groups and a few very large outliers pulling averages up.
Source: Hive Index community database · Updated 2026-05-16
- Communities
- 15
- Platforms
- 3
- Avg members
- 550K
- Median members
- 160K
Where Playstation Communities Are Hosted
- Reddit: 6 communities (40%)
- Independent Platforms: 5 communities (33%)
- Discord: 4 communities (27%)
- 6(40%)
Reddit - 5(33%)
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Independent Platforms - 4(27%)
Discord
Format mix
- 11(73%)Forum / feed-based
- 4(27%)Chat communities
Forum / feed-based is most common (73%), but chat communities is also well represented (27%).
Reddit leads, but Independent Platforms and Discord also represent meaningful shares.
Audience Size & Access
Community size
- Tiny: 0 communities (0%)
- Small: 1 communities (7%)
- Medium: 0 communities (0%)
- Large: 0 communities (0%)
- Huge: 5 communities (33%)
- Massive: 6 communities (40%)
- Gigantic: 2 communities (13%)
- 0(0%)Tiny<20 members
- 1(7%)Small20-100 members
- 0(0%)Medium100-1,000 members
- 0(0%)Large1,000-10,000 members
- 5(33%)Huge10,000-100,000 members
- 6(40%)Massive100,000-1M members
- 2(13%)Gigantic1M+ members
1 community has unknown member counts.
Free vs paid
- Free to join: 15 communities (100%)
- Paid or apply-to-join: 0 communities (0%)
The average is much higher than the median (550K vs 160K), which usually means a few large groups are pulling the average up.
How Playstation Differs From Other Categories
Playstation is more free-to-join, larger, and more chat-heavy, compared with typical Hive Index topics.
| Metric | Playstation | Hive Index average |
|---|---|---|
| Free to join | 100% | 85% |
| Median members | 160K | 24K |
| Average members | 550K | 652K |
| Paid or apply-to-join | 0% | 15% |
| Live chat | 53% | 40% |
| Discord share | 27% | 16% |
Feature Mix
Common features appear in at least 15% of listings.
Common Features
- Forum: 11 communities (73%)
- Live Chat: 8 communities (53%)
- 73%Forum
- 53%Live Chat
Niche Features
- Online/Offline Events: 2 communities (13%)
- Newsletter: 1 communities (7%)
- 13%Online/Offline Events
- 7%Newsletter
Live Chat appears on 53% of listings.
What Visitors Click
- Outbound clicks / mo
- 3
Top-clicked listings
- 3(100%)Dragon's Dogma Central
Trends
Founded year
- 2000: 1 communities (9%)
- 2012: 2 communities (18%)
- 2015: 1 communities (9%)
- 2017: 2 communities (18%)
- 2018: 1 communities (9%)
- 2019: 2 communities (18%)
- 2021: 1 communities (9%)
- 2022: 1 communities (9%)
4 communities have no founding year on file.
Most listed groups were founded around 2012.
Methodology & FAQ
Methodology
This report uses communities in the Hive Index database tagged as Playstation. We exclude removed or suppressed listings. Member counts, traffic, features, reviews, and ratings may vary by source and are updated periodically.
- •This is a smaller slice of Hive Index's database, so read trends as directional.
- •Last updated 2026-05-16