Pachter: PS Plus needs 2-3 million subscribers for PSN to profit

[Zkuq]

dallas said:

Zkuq said:

I'm probably missing something here... But last I checked, Steam must have been profitable 'cause it's been around for so long already. It's not the same but it has many features that PSN has.

Maybe things are different here... But what exactly do you think is so expensive with WiFi? It's also called WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network, Wireless LAN), which means it's LAN. It has nothing to do with your internet subscription. So, what am I missing here?

exactly, but this runs off of the big telecom's data networks which power your laptop's internet (if you have a service) as well as things like text messages.  So, sony/MS have to have a pay per rate kind of agreement.  Now, Since sony is just 1 customer that they have to deal with using all of this data versus 36 million PS3 owners doing the same thing, i'd imagine that Sony would get an awesome rate off of it, but it has to be expensive as people sometimes play for 2-3 hours at a time.

Maybe there's something wrong with my English... But are you telling my my laptop's internet is using WiFi, as well as the text messages I send with my cell phone? Because AFAIK that technology is limited to pretty short range. Also, there's still lots of phones out there that don't support WiFi at all. Even today, most cheaper models, even new ones, don't support it.