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legend92(3) on 14 January 2010

Sony said they expect 500 million in revenue. But who knows if they make a cent on it.



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Netyaroze on 14 January 2010
kowenicki said:
Netyaroze said:

There was a thread I am looking for since 15 Minutes and it listed the money Sony earned with PSN it was somewhere in the sevenhundred million range if I remember correctly. Doesnt someone posted in the thread because I havent.

700m???  yen presumably, even thats doubtful.

I seem to remember when they made a big thing of it making $1m in REVENUE in one month once.... but that isnt profit.

 

Ok you are right it wasnt 700 Million Dollar it was 500 Million Dollar:

 

http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2009/11/23/psn-revenue-to-hit-half-a-billion-dollars/ I regret I havent posted in that thread. They had the exact numbers.

 



Netyaroze on 14 January 2010

Hmm did I claimed otherwise ? PSN doesnt lose money thats all it makes even money and i think its a decent amount. PSN revenue increased by 155% in NA PSn will be big Live had 8 years time to develop PSN just 3. It helps the PS3 even today to make smaller loss. And it will continue to grow during the next years. 



d21lewis on 14 January 2010

$50 per user (if they'd charge for it).



GreyianStorm on 14 January 2010
kowenicki said:
Netyaroze said:

There was a thread I am looking for since 15 Minutes and it listed the money Sony earned with PSN it was somewhere in the sevenhundred million range if I remember correctly. Doesnt someone posted in the thread because I havent.

700m???  yen presumably, even thats doubtful.

I seem to remember when they made a big thing of it making $1m in REVENUE in one month once.... but that isnt profit.

"As for the PlayStation Network, it was announced that it has generated $280 million in revenue since launching, and that Home has now been downloaded by 7.5 million users."

From Kotaku: http://kotaku.com/5340392/sony-talk-playstation-lifetime-sales-psn-revenue

So, it's probably across the $300 million mark in revenue by now. It must be profitable (how the hell could they have spent that amount on it), the question is how profitable is it? 



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bumblejr2 on 14 January 2010

they make nice profit. but obv they would make more profit charging for it... are they gonna get greedy and do that soon? >.



Xoj on 14 January 2010
kowenicki said:
Netyaroze said:

There was a thread I am looking for since 15 Minutes and it listed the money Sony earned with PSN it was somewhere in the sevenhundred million range if I remember correctly. Doesnt someone posted in the thread because I havent.

700m???  yen presumably, even thats doubtful.

I seem to remember when they made a big thing of it making $1m in REVENUE in one month once.... but that isnt profit.

they made that only with home microtransaction when it was starting and had nothing

dude FF7 did that in a week.



Netyaroze on 14 January 2010
GreyianStorm said:
kowenicki said:
Netyaroze said:

There was a thread I am looking for since 15 Minutes and it listed the money Sony earned with PSN it was somewhere in the sevenhundred million range if I remember correctly. Doesnt someone posted in the thread because I havent.

700m???  yen presumably, even thats doubtful.

I seem to remember when they made a big thing of it making $1m in REVENUE in one month once.... but that isnt profit.

"As for the PlayStation Network, it was announced that it has generated $280 million in revenue since launching, and that Home has now been downloaded by 7.5 million users."

From Kotaku: http://kotaku.com/5340392/sony-talk-playstation-lifetime-sales-psn-revenue

So, it's probably across the $300 million mark in revenue by now. It must be profitable (how the hell could they have spent that amount on it), the question is how profitable is it? 

 

Yeah I read those news too but I also read that Kaz hirai said it will have 563 Million revenue at the end of this fiscal year:

 

 

“Kaz Hirai confirms premium level will be added on top of PS3 and PSP’s online service, which will remain free to play online; PSN revenue expected to hit $563 million this fiscal year.”

 

And he said that on 20 November 2009 kotaku news are from August so the 300 Million mark should be crossed a long time ago.The PSN revenue increased between december 2008 and december 2009 in NA by 155%. And December 2009 was the strongest month for PSN of all time.

 

http://www.psu.com/December-was-PS3PSNs-best-month-ever,-says-SCEA-News--a008517-p0.php (news from today)

http://www.n4g.com/News-432494.aspx

http://xgamingnation.wordpress.com/2009/12/

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6240938.html



Solid_Snake4RD on 14 January 2010
Netyaroze said:

There was a thread I am looking for since 15 Minutes and it listed the money Sony earned with PSN it was somewhere in the sevenhundred million range if I remember correctly. Doesnt someone posted in the thread because I havent.

that was revenue not profit



sully1311 on 14 January 2010

Remember they charge publishers something like $0.17 for every GB of their material on the store