PlayStation Network 'Short-Term Pain' Worth It for Gamers

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Joel12345 said:

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AND they still lost money with every ps3 sold but they did it for us to have the greatness put 2 and 2 together you get 4

No, they did it following a razor-blades economic model. Sometimes it works (PS and PS2 eras) sometimes it doesn't. They didn't want to give you 400 US$ for free, they wanted to create a critical mass so third parties developed games for their console.