Baalzamon said:
irstupid 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?
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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.
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well thinking off top of head the costs could be
1. estimated lawsuit for this type of situation. This isn't the first time in history, so maybe comparing to similar situations
2. if sony refunds psn accounts money. think i saw article saying this. While its not exactly a cost, its a loss of revenue
3. cost of oustide help to fix and to improve the security
4. loss of psn sales during downtime, again not exactly a cost but a loss of revenue
and other similar things. not sure how you come up with figures, but to me a loss of revenue is a cost in my mind. I mean if lets say in this week they would have made 10 million in revenue, but with psn down they get 0. to me that is a 10 million cost.
So in the end they may not have to fork over 23 billion dollars, but it might be something like they missed out on 10 billion revenue and spent 13 billion on repairs and legal. so in essenese this ends up costing them 23 billion dollars they would have had if this didn't happen
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I personally think an estimated loss in profits due to this would be a much better way to analyze the costs of the situation. If Sony would have made $5 million on psn in profits for instance, this is what it is costing them. It isn't costing them the $15 million in revenue that they made. My numbers are made up, but I think they get the point across.
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profit means nothing.
regardless of it its profit or not, sony not getting that $5 million in sales this week is a loss in $5 they could have had, thus an expense of this situation. doesn't matter if that $5 is profit or not, its money they do not get due to this
