Psn Plus earnings..anyone know?

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BBH said:

nightsurge said:

theprof00 said:

I'd say it's probably in the low millions as of now.

It would only take twenty-thousand subscribers to reach one million $, if they bought a yearly plan.

But that isn't pure profit.  Revenue maybe, but profit-wise I'd say they are still in the red for PSN Plus given the costs to start it and the initial wave of arguably better software in the first month that was available for free.  Once it gets to later months with software less people want in the free offerings they will probably start to make a profit.

What costs to start it? It had basically no external marketing...

And £40 easily covers all the costs of giving away the content for free and then more. For example with Wipeout HD they will have broken even on it ages ago, and it will cost them nothing to distribute and sell it.

Additionally, it's not like they didn't already have a set infrastructure in place.  I would wager pretty heavily that PSN Plus is already a profitable success, although I highly doubt it's a significant profit in terms of the grand scheme of things.  But hey, it gives them an additional source of revenue and also gives users several options.  It's the route Microsoft should go IMHO.