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irstupid on 27 April 2011
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Baalzamon said:
irstupid said:

thats my point.  in court sony will be held accountable for 77 million malicious acts.  they aren't going to be able to prove if one is real or not. 

and i wouldn't be surprised if they are close to a billion now already.  How much you think they have spent fixign it so far?  how much have they lost in psn sales, how much has their stock gone down in the past week?

I truly have no clue what software costs to fix/rebuild, but even if they were to have 5000 people right now fixing the server.  Lets just say they average $100,000 a year.  You are talking about wages of ~$10,000,000 thus far.  And I have no clue what psn sales accumulate to, but even if they are $2 million per day for instance (a random guess), you're talking ~$20,000,000 more thus far for lost revenue.  As for their stock, it was 29.25 on April 18th, and is now 28.93, which is just over a 1% loss.  I'm not totally sure how this works, but if you take the market cap of ~$29 billion, 1% of that is ~290 million.

So overall costs are up to $320,000,000 with my analysis, if stock changes are included.  Now, lets just say other costs associated with this, PR, the security firm, etc., make it add up to a total cost of $400,000,000 thus far.

Now, obviously they will still have further costs of fixing it, but the major cost that could approach is a potential lawsuit.  I'm not very knowledgeable on law, but how big of a lawsuit could possibly be filed against Sony, if, say, all 70 users teamed up saying their identity (name, address, birthday, potentially credit cards, etc) was stolen?  I really do doubt that it would get up into the billions of dollars.  You are talking something that would just make Sony file for bankruptcy, which does absolutely no good.

yea i know what you are saying, it makes no sense.  I can't fathom how i could even spend 23 billion dollars.  i have no idea how that gets considered.  it dosen't seem fathomable.  i mean what was sony's revenue for the entire year last year and the entire year expenses. 

i'm not the one making this 23 billion up.  i'm just trying to justify where the spending comes from.  Hell look at us government.  they spend how many billion getting a few million people jobs. it was AVERAGE to 160,000 per job created by the stimulus.

hell you give me 160,000 and i could hire way more than 1 person  but somehow it cost them on AVERAGE 160,000 per person to ge tthem jobs.

there is no point in trying to figure out how this 22 billion number will come to be.  it won't make any sense