As taboo as the subject line might appear, porn has always played a crucial role in technology. Betamax famously took a huge hit when Sony didn’t allow porn to arrive on their format which would eventually lose to VHS. Years later in the format war between Blu-ray and HD DVD, both sides were quick to allow porn though Blu-ray with its larger discs had the upper hand and eventually won out.

This isn’t to say that porn has been the single catalyst for helping drive a format to victory, but that it does play a prominent role despite it not being talked about in public forums much. This next bit of news isn’t something you should expect Sony CEO Kaz Hirai to bring up as a slide during his next keynote – but nonetheless, it’s an important indicator that consumers are truly shifting away from Xbox and towards PlayStation.

More after the jump, including a fancy chart.

 Porn mega site Pornhub.com has released its annual Year in Review, sharing with us all sorts of fascinating details about peoples’ porn watching habits for 2015. There was plenty of shakeup in last year’s habits, but perhaps none bigger than the PlayStation overtaking Xbox as the most preferred console for accessing porn on Pornhub.

Pornhub broke down its traffic by game console, revealing that its traffic shares from PlayStation are up to an impressive 46.9%, an increase of 6.9% from 2014. Shares of views from Xbox, meanwhile, saw a drop from 2014’s 45.7% to 37.9% in 2015. 

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[Via GameZone]