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Forums - Sales - $1 Million Worth of GOODS SOLD IN PLAYSTATION HOME!!!

DMeisterJ on 09 January 2009
NJ5 said:
DMeisterJ said:
NJ5 said:
Godot said:
I fail to see how people are impressed by that 1m figure.

$1 million is a psychologically satisfying number for those who aren't used to read news about business/finance.

Given how many people said HOME was a waste of time, and a failure, and things to that nature, $1 million seems like Sony is doing something correct.  Some people must enjoy the microtransactions.

I agree that around $1 million per month is not a bad number if it continues for the next few months/years. However it's not extraordinary, and it probably doesn't make Home a cash cow or anything like that.

It was actually 1 million in 17 days or something like that, and given how it was only downloaded 3.4 million times, it's defintely a good number.  Once more people DL it, and spend money, which will happen as the install base increases, it'll do much better numbers... Theoretically that is.



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Garnett on 09 January 2009

How much was spent developing Home? Hopefully they can regain it and triple its amount.



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NJ5 on 09 January 2009
DMeisterJ said:

It was actually 1 million in 17 days or something like that, and given how it was only downloaded 3.4 million times, it's defintely a good number.  Once more people DL it, and spend money, which will happen as the install base increases, it'll do much better numbers... Theoretically that is.

I said $1 million a month because I think it would be unrealistic not to take into account that this was:

- a holiday month with lots of new PS3 owners

- the Home launch, with people buying stuff to try it out (who may not continue spending so much money if they get tired of Home or of the micro-transactions)

 



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Million on 10 January 2009
NJ5 said:
DMeisterJ said:

It was actually 1 million in 17 days or something like that, and given how it was only downloaded 3.4 million times, it's defintely a good number.  Once more people DL it, and spend money, which will happen as the install base increases, it'll do much better numbers... Theoretically that is.

I said $1 million a month because I think it would be unrealistic not to take into account that this was:

- a holiday month with lots of new PS3 owners

- the Home launch, with people buying stuff to try it out (who may not continue spending so much money if they get tired of Home or of the micro-transactions)

 

That doesn't change the fact that it was only 17 days , the bulk of purchases would have been pre-xmas ps3 .And i can't imagine the x-mas period would greatly bennefit Home items that weren't christmas related.