| ivanpgcs said: "$4 Per Playstation Plus Customer due to giving them a free month. Let's guess 5 million PSplus users? = $20 million" PSN plus free month is for all user, or not? from Joystiq ...Because the freebie content will be different by region, Sony was hesitant to put a price on it, but Hirai estimated "a few thousand yen" worth of free downloads. So like $20-25 or so? In response to a question about install base, Hirai said 37 million PS3 systems are connected to PSN, and 16 million PSP units, but the total install base is larger. Sony isn't disclosing the userbase for Qriocity yet.... http://www.joystiq.com/2011/05/01/psn-outage-plus-qriocity-free/ "a few thousand yen" is good but i think this content will be from Sony, so the cost for them will be little cost |
The reason the $4 was only applied to 5 million users was because, if you don't already have PSNplus, then you being given it for free doesn't take any revenue from Sony - there was no revenue from you to begin with. The next line covers the fact that those who do not have PSN will be thus using more bandwidth as a result of getting 1 month of free PSNplus. However, the total number of PSN users is 37 million, as you say. So I probably need to edit down that number.
Edit - and even if the game is from Sony, it can still be a big loss. Lets say that they have a game that they were going to be selling for $10, and they were expecting to sell 50k copies. That is neither a high price nor a great figure for sales. Now instead of selling that game and getting $0.5 million revenue, with expenses of x, they instead get $0 revenue and expenses of x. They still lose $0.5 million and I stand by that figure.
