irstupid said:
thats not how legal action works. one person would win and n oone else would be able to sue. you can't be sued over the same thing twice. and you are also missing what these costs include. thse numbers are mostly guestimates of missing revenue or lost sales. I mean during this down time, sony could have missed out on getting a few billion in psn sales. meanwhile they are incuring a few billion more in costs. Thus what would have been a 3 billion revenue, turns into a 0 billion revenue and 3 billion expense. a 6 billion dollars cost overall. and lets not forget stock. these also estimate a loss in stock value. is sony going to have to fork oer 23 billion dolalrs? hell no. |
But even those numbers are grossly inflated. I don't think PSN even brings in a billion annually yet, let alone "a few billion" of lost sales in 8 days. and PSN absolutely can't be incurring a few billion in costs in the same period, otherwise the service would be a money black hole that would bankrupt the company in a matter of months.