Meanie! You just have to crash the party huh?

What I find strange is that there's a reported 17 MILLION PSN accounts, but only 20% of them have downloaded Home which is FREE.

Is this an indication of how few people are even interested in looking at Home? Or perhaps more likely that there are no where near 17 million actual users of PSN? Or is it a little of both?

I find it a little unbelievable that Sony has 85% of it's PS3 users with PSN accounts, yet only 20% of those users have even downloaded Home to have a look. Something doesn't add up.

You can access the PSN on both the ps3 and PSP, so probably a nice portion of those 17 million or PSP users (with some using both).

If they can keep this up, they will make the first billion in 57 years.

Well MS stated they made one billion on the marketplace since Xbox360-release.

38 months = 1140 days = 1 billion USD

1 day = 877,192 USD.

1 week = 6,140,350 USD

And of course there are fees to pay, which will be like $500,000,000 a year. (17 million users - I assumed 10 million gold) I doubt Sony will make this with advertising. Well and there is advertising on XBL as well... with a greater Userbase, so more money for MS again.

this is why sony released the thing in the first place. extra cash.

Well duh...PS3 owners just love wasting money.

Well business wise for Sony these microtransactions are just the icing on the cake, the bulk of the money from Home will be made from third party adverts. Red bull must be paying a bundle for there space in Home, certainly paying in the thousands.

I suspect this isn't quite enough to get their console division in the black. A stronger business move would have been to charge for the online services....

How do you know they aren't tracking individual consoles connected ?

 because Sony said "accounts"