So how exactly does sony afford to keep there servers up?

So while playing alittle bit of Battle field i just thought to myself" How the hell do we get to play online games for free? I mean i get how microsoft does it through xbox live and all that stuff and microsoft points and all those shinanigins but how does sony affrod to keep up there servers for online play?

Well, sony is a big company of course they can keep the servers for free. They make money of software ect....so paying online service would be extra money, if they make the online experience a little better and charge the $50 like xbox does and most of would still pay to play.

I guess sony is not that greddy. Think $50 x 1mil.

But reffering to your question, i wonder how much does servers cost.

I really doubt all that money going through xbox live subscriptions goes to keeping the servers up. They probably make massive amounts of profit from it. It's cheap as chips to these companies.

The PS3 isn't a cheap console and SONY is freakishly large company

Sony just runs the PSN, game servers are run by devs or publishers. PSN creates huge profit because everyone who offers stuff there pays for traffic, that's why you have so many keys as DLC on the PSN (Updates are made via servers from publisher / devs)

i think the developers run and maintain the servers for their games, not sony...i think sony just run and maintains the psn networkmike4realz

PSN is probably cheaper to maintain than XBL, and they have PS + to help with PSN.

So while playing alittle bit of Battle field i just thought to myself" How the hell do we get to play online games for free? I mean i get how microsoft does it through xbox live and all that stuff and microsoft points and all those shinanigins but how does sony affrod to keep up there servers for online play?

killblade37

charity?

[QUOTE="mike4realz"]i think the developers run and maintain the servers for their games, not sony...i think sony just run and maintains the psn networkDogswithguns