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A lot of numbers were being thrown around as people, both at Sony and in the media, tried to divine the overall monetary damage the company would ultimately have to bear.
Well all postulation can end now, Sony has announced the final number at around 170 million dollars.
"Based on information currently available to Sony, our currently known costs associated with the unauthorized network access are estimated to be approximately 14 billion yen in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012."
Of course the PSN downtime wasn't the only thing to affect Sony this quarter. As one would expect, the earthquakes and resulting Tsunami in Japan also took a heavy toll on the company.
"The impact on operating income of the Great East Japan Earthquake is estimated to be approximately 17 billion yen (£129 million) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011 and approximately 150 billion yen (£1.1 b) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2012."
Even though it's quite a chunk of change, Sony is reporting that it was still profitable during this time due, most probably, to the vast array of electronic products which bear the Sony logo and have been selling better as the economy slowly improves.
Comments
13 years, 6 months ago
Sony will get back on its feet. Its probably going to take a while.
13 years, 6 months ago
Sony's been so arrogant over the years, it needs some humble pie.
13 years, 6 months ago
Although I hope them a swift recovery I do feel they got a lot to answer to.
13 years, 6 months ago
a set back of 170million? they'll be fine. This is just a scrap on the knee to these huge companies like Sony
13 years, 6 months ago
Oh, woe is me, Sony is still profitable even after reporting over a three-billion dollar loss. Reminds me of the whole petrol companies lobbying for government subsidies while still boasting a massive profit.
13 years, 6 months ago
So is that money spent addressing the intrusion, estimated sales lost from PS Store being down, or both?
13 years, 6 months ago
That's a lot of money lost because of a few dickheads.
13 years, 6 months ago
Sony isn't the one hurting because of this. The people who were hurt were the ones that work for developers who exclusively work on download only titles.
13 years, 6 months ago
Good, that is how they learn their lesson.
13 years, 6 months ago
That's probably not even including lost customers that were pissed about it
13 years, 6 months ago
I still stay loyal to sony, it was not their fualt and their giving me free stuff even though they could have gotten away with not saying anything.
13 years, 6 months ago
hmm... should I get a PS3, a WII or an Xbox?... proly not a PS3...
13 years, 6 months ago
Sony will recover. The company is large enough and diverse enough (electronics, movies, music, etc..). The people who still say Sony deserved it and everything are kinda missing the point in my opinion. Sony did what pretty much any company would have done. Shutting it down until it was ready is the right thing to do regardless of the cost.
If you ask me, given how much people were saying the security was soft and weak it still took 5 years for anyone to break. Granted that didn't start until they pulled Linux and GeoHot broke the code but still. XBoxs have been modded since the start as have PSPs. Wiis have region breakers and mods as well. Sony never needed that since they allowed it from the start with Linux and region free games, people seem to forget that. In a way, they've been the most user friendly.
13 years, 6 months ago
i hope playstation gets everything together soon, i do have to say that it might take a while for me to put my credit card info into playstation again