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Acevil said:
Seece said:
Acevil said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
irstupid said:

on the news last night they said could cost sony 23 billion dollars.

so that sounds like from same source.  i mean what is 70 million times 318? 

22.3 billion, so yeah.

It sounds like an aweful lot. How can the cost be THAT high? What do they have to do to fix it? I mean, the whole losses of the PS3 so far are like 4.7bn right? So this will cost FIVE times more than all losses the PS3 has taken since launch?

If it's true... poor Sony. Anyway, nothing's for sure yet. Let's wait and see.

The problem however assumes that 70 million users had information that would cause problems. It would be more reasonable to assume much smaller number, but worse comes to worse. Sony will be harmed in the billions and harmed in the media. 

Yeah, I don't reckon more than 5/10 mill accounts were actually affected, so in the region of 2.5 billion


Totally agreed, but we also need to remember this is worse case possibility and 2.5 billion would still be significant to harm ps3. Honestly if this happens, I hate to look at Sony's financial for Q1-2. 

If it's anymore than $3 billion it'll have a massive effect on Sony's strategy going forward, not sure what they'd do tbh. They COULD write it off as a debt like MS did with RROD, but $3 bill ...