Lemm said:
They get their money out of people that continue to buy the system
Correction, they’re still losing money on each console sale and Sony’s videogame division (aka Networking or wtfever they use to hide it on the books) had a net loss of almost $1 billion in FY 2011. That’s console, games, accessories, everything. They’re actually bleeding more money than MS is at this point, even with RROD losses figured in.
I agree 100% that security is one of those things that’s just expected, regardless of whether or not the service is paid-for or free. Perfect example is Steam. The service itself is free and there’s very few games that you are required to buy through it but the security is there regardless of where you choose to buy games through them or not. This is almost like the Apple OS4 screw up, they thought no one would ever find out so when someone did they were caught with their pants down, well Sony never thought anyone could hack into their internal servers so when someone did they had absolutely no safeguards on the data.