Videogirl on 30 December 2008
| nightsurge said: Someone needs to do an investigation to see just how much it costs Sony and Microsoft to host and maintain PSN and Live. Then go about seeing how much each makes off of the service as a whole, and the service downloads, etc. I'm sure MS makes a lot of money off of Live, but I have a feeling that the PSN doesn't make much at all after everything is taken into account, so what is good for Sony's consumers, is bad for Sony Corp. If MS makes enough off of downloads and games and stuff to justify it being free and just have ads, I would then demand Live go free as long as quality is maintained. |
Assuming the number I posted on my previous message is reasonable : 840'000'000 per year only with gold accounts subscription add to that huge advertising revenue and they're doing quite a margin there.
For comparison, World of Warcraft servers cost about 120 million dollars a year for maintenance and new created content, and I don't see Live servers being much more costly.
