How much does sony make on the PSN?

[outlawauron]

Gnizmo said:

outlawauron said:

Eh, I wouldn't count on that. Whenever I worked retail, we had a 0.10 discount on the PSN/XBLA/WiiWare cards. I highly doubt they're sold at that big of a loss.

Manufacturing and storage costs factor in too. $20 on the PSN is straight $20. If it costs $2-3 per card shipped then that comes out of the amount put into the PSN on top of any retailer discount.

Of course, but those costs seem quite exagerrated. I mean, there's no way a small box containg hundreds of cards (there's very slim and there is no packaging on them) would cost that much. I know Sony probably loses a little bit of money on the cards, but I has to be a miniscule amount (same with XBLA and WW stuff)

 

Although, discounting on the cards would come at a retailers loss.