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PSN down time costing us 'hundreds of thousands' - Capcom

Lost cash could even be in the millions, says publisher's senior vice president.
The prolonged PlayStation Network down time following the hacking of the service is costing Capcom "hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in revenue".

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DontShoot-Me-Bro4736d ago

Finally some good news has come out of this!

Capcom are losing money!

You deserve it after all the milking and rip off DLC's.

:)

Nitrowolf24736d ago (Edited 4736d ago )

XD
as funny as it is though, you have to realize that if Capcom are loosing money then so are many other big and small devs.
This is just bad for everyone, even if some say Capcom deserves for having DLC on the disc (F Them), other devs will also be loosing in on this.

FU Playstation hackers, no good came from this.

zootang4736d ago

Then why wouldn't these developers help?

Yi-Long4736d ago

... many of those sales they now deem as 'lost', are just being 'postponed'.

When gamers want a certain PSN game or piece of DLC, they might not be able to buy it NOW, but they will buy it as soon as PSN comes back online.

If I want to buy Joe Danger, then that decision is already made in my head. I might not be able to purchase the game right now, but they will still get my money as soon as PSN is back online!

oricon4736d ago

@Yi-Long
They are losing sales because now there are gonna be customers who dont wanna use PSN to buy stuff from the PSN store due to the whole hacking fiasco.

Graey4736d ago

@ Oricon

I'd almost agree with you, and to a certain extent I'd say your right. But I'd caveat on that by saying it would probably be minimal at best.

I'm pretty sure if your a reasonable person, have a job or some means of income and you were purchasing things on PSN before...chances are your going to do it again.

Now in all likely hood people are probably going to wait a bit. Maybe a couple weeks, but as the above poster said if you want it your going to get it one way or the other.

I want that new dungeon game that release right before this whole hack fiasco, and you bet as soon as PSN is back I'm getting it. I have no hesitations about it as well.

I might not keep my card info, but I'll use judgment on that see how it works out with the new setup.

I'm a firm believer that DLC has gotten out of hand. Releasing stuff on the disk, or releasing stuff a week or two after a game has come out it just wrong.

Anyway I look forward to the return of PSN.

V/R

M-Easy4736d ago

You know I seriously doubt Capcom makes a million dollars every 2 weeks on PSN. More sensationalism.

ravinash4736d ago (Edited 4736d ago )

Working in an IT company that deals with supplying a service that if it goes down is down time for that client, We've learnt that often when companies that rely on these services will often exaggerate the amount that they have lost.

I think you will find that the "Money" they say they have lost, will be in fact be made up once the service is back on line. If people are going to buy it, then they’re going to buy it...regardless of if they have to wait a little longer.
I'm sure at the end of the day they will be under what they would have if there wasn't a problem, but I don't think it will be anything near as bad as they make out.

HammockGames4736d ago (Edited 4736d ago )

I could care less about Capcom. They lost me a long time ago.

And this entire PSN thing illustrates why gamers are/were pissed at them about Final Fight having an online DRM component. Fear confirmed. FU Capcom.

What concerns me is the financial impact on other devs that actually do a decent job.

sdtarm4736d ago

good capcom. Everybody is losing something off this, what makes you think we care about YOU

rockleex4736d ago (Edited 4736d ago )

You know, I really feel sorry for you Capcom...

But Mortal Kombat is the BEST FIGHTING GAME OF THIS GENERATION!!!

...OF THIS ENTIRE GENERATION!!!

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DarkCharizard_4736d ago

After a half-assed MvsC 3 and horrible LP 2 they certainly deserve this!

Zydake4736d ago

This is finally some great news. That's for holding out on us Crapcom.
And that's what you get for killing Dante

Fox014736d ago (Edited 4736d ago )

Think of it this way, if even capcom is loosing this much, how much more do you think Sony is loosing each day that PSN is down?
And how much do you think it's costing them to rebuild it?
And finally, how much do you think their "welcome back" gifts to us consumers is going to cost them?

MR LOOKINGBILL4736d ago

Capcom isn't the only developer losing money because of PSN outage.. you have Konami, Namco, Sega, SE, ect.

xAlmostPro4736d ago

They are only losing money based on estimates that people will be buying X amount of games/DLC published by them..

Make monster hunter for PS3 and you'll get your money back

saladthieves4736d ago

Wow, how they milked their franchises and such DLCs. Why are they complaining in the first place? They are such a huge company. I'm more worried about the indie developers, whose budget is smaller and are also losing money over this.

Scyrus4736d ago

Hasj1990

how is that good news? that would just cause capcom to HAVE to milk more dlc to make up for lost profits, dummy head!

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user94220774736d ago

This is what Capcom said:

I'm frustrated and upset by it for a number of reasons.

As a consumer, I also play games online on PS3, which I can't do... and likely my personal information is also compromised. Secondly I like to buy things in the PlayStation store and that I can't do right now.

On a related note, as an executive responsible for running a business, the resulting outage obviously costing us hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in revenue that were planned for within our budget. These are funds we rely on to bring new games to market for our fans.

In short, the hackers appear to be trying to "punish" Sony for some perceived injustice, and they've been effective in that I suppose. But they're also punishing millions of other consumers and businesses which makes it impossible to be sympathetic to their "cause".

mastiffchild4736d ago

Yeah. While I can agree that, as many people are saying, Capcom haven't covered themselves in glory and don't necessarily deserve much sympathy themselves the situation right now is affecting devs and publishers of every size and many who HAVE been good to gamers this generation.

You're totally right, really, nobody is winning here and the hackers are going to start actually losing enough money for businesses to start consider changing plans if this continues or spreads further. If they keep this up and people start losing their jobs and we start losing games just how popular do they imagine the idea is going to end up being? All to support Geohot who didn't have the balls to stand up for himself? Oh, that's worth ruining people's livelihoods during a recession and risking pushing devs or, worse, Sony out of gaming and by doing that messing up gaming altogether. Oh, no. No, no it isn't.

A PSN outage is a blip, at the moment, for Sony and Capcom because of their size but a few smaller PSN exclusive devs might well feel the pinch and if they have to lay ONE person off then this has already gone WAY, WAY too far-if it hadn't already with making gamers, totally innocent gamers, lives a bit worse. It amazes me people STILL try to support the dickheads who pulled this pointless and self serving act of BS off let alone actually DID it.

a_bro4736d ago (Edited 4736d ago )

yea, and im not buying your POS games that have DRM anymore capcom.

oricon4736d ago

Which capcom games has DRM?

miDnIghtEr4736d ago (Edited 4736d ago )

Good thing they can count on making some money off of Live still. To keep bringing those games.

Knushwood Butt4736d ago

Hansel - he's so hot right now.

nevin14736d ago

alot capcom hate but i won't blame you people.

a_bro4736d ago

i cant play final fight or BC:rearmed because of their stupid DRM.

oricon4736d ago

Is it because your gamesharing lol.

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Rolling the Dice: Do Modern RPGs Miss the Point of Team-Based Play?

It seems it was long time ago. A bunch of friends spending hours on end playing RPG games, sitting around the table with the box of cold pizza. Excited about the story, listening to the Game Master, they were completely engaged in the worlds only visible to them and their imaginations.

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Takwin2626d ago

The GM is the programmer, and in MMOs and co-ops, you can play with others. If you want to ONLY use your imagination for the visuals, read a book.

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Record of Agarest War 2 announced for PS3

Scrawl: "Looks like we know how that new Compile Heart countdown is going to end. The latest issue of Famitsu has confirmed that Agarest Senki 2, known as Record of Agarest War 2 in the US, is Compile Heart’s newest title."

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Godmars2905071d ago

1) Hope they put it on disc this time.
2) Hope this is a positive for Neptune coming over as well.

Demons Souls5070d ago

If so, that's being developed & published by Idea Factory. Compile Heart has nothing to do with it (Thank God for that).

Godmars2905070d ago (Edited 5070d ago )

Thought Compile Heart was one of the companies lending characters.

Was also speaking in general as in regards to a US of Neptune. If these guys are offing a second game, NIS or Atlus, both of whom offer quirkier titles, will put that one out.

@kagon01:
My issue isn't - wholly - with the DL-only option, but the price. The first game should be $30. Maybe $40, and by that I mean $39.99. The only reason its $45 is the 360 disc version which has extras. Nevermind that by all rights its a PS2 game. Something that proabbly could have been done if the devs had the GOW2 engine or tools.

ClownBelt5070d ago

I approve of this god damn message.

Could have gotten my 60 bucks if they just put it on a disc.

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Tripl3seis5070d ago

Another exclusive damnn the ps3 keeps on rollin wit games awesome ;)

Jack-Pyro5070d ago

Is this a half decent SRPG, porn aside, cause if it is, i might just decide to go and buy it for the 360.

Anon73495070d ago

There's no porn just some sexual innuendos but that's it.

Also it is a great game by itself, maybe not graphically but everything else is top tier.

RedDevils5070d ago

so it had some kind of "top tier" porn story jk

ThanatosDMC5070d ago

Yup, it's a decent game. I just hate that a move has to go first before any attack options.

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Bless Online Korean MMORPG Gets Server Merge

This is not the first time that Bless Online receives a server merge in Korea. An announcement was made on the official Korean site.

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Bismarn2661d ago

Bless must be an amazing game to be on all these platforms (according to the tags): iPad iPhone Nintendo DS PC PS Vita PS2 PS3 PS4 PSP Wii Wii U Xbox Xbox 360 Xbox One