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WilliamWatts on 14 July 2010
Vetteman94 said:
WilliamWatts said:

Probably very little, theres even the chance they may lose money on the service initially.


What would they be losing money on?


The cost to run, develop and market PSN . The cost of royalties to 2nd/third parties when they gave away content. The cost of bandwidth for people to download large games. Unlike Live, they have a completely different model, this is more a content subscription.



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WilliamWatts on 14 July 2010

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don't mind me

 



Xbbjf9s on 14 July 2010
WilliamWatts said:
Vetteman94 said:
WilliamWatts said:

Probably very little, theres even the chance they may lose money on the service initially.


What would they be losing money on?


The cost to run, develop and market PSN . The cost of royalties to 2nd/third parties when they gave away content. The cost of bandwidth for people to download large games. Unlike Live, they have a completely different model, this is more a content subscription.

The content they gave away was 1st party. MAG, WIPE OUT, FAT PRINCESS....all owned by sony



Vetteman94 on 14 July 2010
WilliamWatts said:
Vetteman94 said:
WilliamWatts said:

Probably very little, theres even the chance they may lose money on the service initially.


What would they be losing money on?


The cost to run, develop and market PSN . The cost of royalties to 2nd/third parties when they gave away content. The cost of bandwidth for people to download large games. Unlike Live, they have a completely different model, this is more a content subscription.

These costs have always been there, its not like they started up these things when PS Plus became available.  



WilliamWatts on 14 July 2010
Vetteman94 said:
WilliamWatts said:
Vetteman94 said:
WilliamWatts said:

Probably very little, theres even the chance they may lose money on the service initially.


What would they be losing money on?


The cost to run, develop and market PSN . The cost of royalties to 2nd/third parties when they gave away content. The cost of bandwidth for people to download large games. Unlike Live, they have a completely different model, this is more a content subscription.

These costs have always been there, its not like they started up these things when PS Plus became available.  

The plus sign... I guess this forum eats it.

But they can't just give away first party content forever, they don't have enough of it. So in the near future they'll have to start giving away stuff from 2nd/3rd party developers as well, content which must be paid for.



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Xbbjf9s on 15 July 2010
WilliamWatts said:
Vetteman94 said:
WilliamWatts said:
Vetteman94 said:
WilliamWatts said:

Probably very little, theres even the chance they may lose money on the service initially.


What would they be losing money on?


The cost to run, develop and market PSN . The cost of royalties to 2nd/third parties when they gave away content. The cost of bandwidth for people to download large games. Unlike Live, they have a completely different model, this is more a content subscription.

These costs have always been there, its not like they started up these things when PS Plus became available.  

The plus sign... I guess this forum eats it.

But they can't just give away first party content forever, they don't have enough of it. So in the near future they'll have to start giving away stuff from 2nd/3rd party developers as well, content which must be paid for.

Yeah your right, I wonder how much they have to pay for avatars and themes? They really need more GOW and KZ stuff in the psn



Ssenkahdavic on 15 July 2010

More than $1.

Less than $1 million.

 

So far at least.  (I can only hope they have not lost more money......................)



 

  

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