| famousringo said: Right now, nobody is buying downloadable content on PSN. The uncertainty over whether credit card info is safe will definitely impact future PSN sales, as well. So software revenues are being lost. Hardware sales? That depends on how important DLC and online play are to customers. About 50% seem to care, and for those people, Sony platforms will look less attractive. |
basically this here. as famousringo said, PSN content will i see take a huge hit. Once psn gets back online, do you see these 75 million people jumping to buy new stuff on psn and having this info all back to sony? i for one would be hesitent about it. So these psn games, dlc and so forth are going to be taking a big hit imo.
of course hardware will take a hit. will the hit be 1 console or thousands, who knows. if a company exec posts a stupid tweet, that alone can hurt a products sales whether its 1 or many. so obviously this will hurt ps3 sales. who knows how big or small. I mean its easy enough to imagine someone in a store and seeing a ps3 and going "hmm thats the thing that had all their info stolen isn't it" and bam 1 less customer. but like i said i have no idea if this will be an uncountable number or a sizable hit of 10's of thousands. but its guaranteed that at least 1 less person will buy a ps3, its stupid to think otherwise. I mean with this in the primetime news now, whats the more likely scenerio? someoen going, hey did you hear about the ps3? yea lets go buy one. or maybe we shouldnt get one.
