leo-j said:
yes ofcourse they wont make as much money on the PSN cards, but they end up selling like hundreds of them per store, and there are like thousands of stores that stock PSN card in the U.S alone, so they end up making millions on the PSN cards alone. Also they make money off 3rd party software, and they also make money off 1st party ip like FF VII which is published by SONY in the americas on PS1, as was the re release. |
Sonly probably made $4 per copy of FF7 sold (based on Sony getting 40% on 3rd party games they publish for their console as reported by Patcher).
I don't know if Sony sees any money for the PSN cards until they are sold to a consumer.
And given that Sony's game division has been losing money for a while now, if PSN makes a lot of money, then the PS3 loses a LOT of money.
