Capcom exec says Sony breach cost his company ‘hundreds of thousands, if not millions’ of dollars

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Capcom senior vice president Christian Svensson has voiced his opinion over the Sony’s massive security breach on the Capcom forums. “As an executive responsible for running a business, the resulting outage [is] obviously costing us hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in revenue that were planned for within our budget,” Svensson said in a public forum response. “These are funds we rely on to bring new games to market for our fans.” Capcom has a storefront that offers users the option to purchase extra game content on the PlayStation Network. Svenesson clarified in another post and added that he — and perhaps Capcom, too — is more frustrated with the hackers than with Sony, which he views as the victim.

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  • Anonymous

    Was thinking about this the other day. All the online games NOT being played. All the PSN extra content NOT being bought.

    • 9T9

      The same goes for every other company with products on the PSN. It really sucks for people who bought Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 and Final Fight: Double Impact because they can’t even play the game because of Capcom’s stupid DRM.

      But I’m sure Capcom will make up said revenue with the next Street Fighter IV game…

  • Anonymous

    LAWSUIT!!

    • dba

      it will be fun when they identify all the kids involved and slap their parents with lawsuits and start putting liens on property.

  • Anonymous

    Sony had horrible security. They’re victims, but they’re also partially at fault.

    • http://twitter.com/alovell83 alovell83

      Also, I think they were targeted by hackers due to their pursuit of Geohot. The hacking community is not the community I would try to piss off.

  • Ryu

    Hadooken!!

  • http://twitter.com/BrowncoatRick Rick Ramey

    How much did it cost Sony customers in identity theft?

  • http://twitter.com/belogical2 Be Logical

    xbox anyone?

  • Anonymous

    This kind of thing probably makes Mr. Svensson want to beat the hell out of a Lexus.

  • Sarcasm

    I can’t wait to get off work and play some Black Ops on XBOX Live..

  • Anonymous

    I have both systems but I’ve been partial to my XBOX…plus they added Hulu. Paying for an online account doesn’t seem so bad after all.

  • Anonymous

    Shoot, I’D BE MAD TOO!!!!

    Think about the small upstart companies that may have items in PSN store….and how every day is a day that NOBODY can buy anything from ‘em!

    People gotta eat! Those companies gotta re-up the money they spent on the programmers, analysts, and testers. Sony’s outage is affecting much more than just Sony!

  • http://twitter.com/Alan_Vazquez Alan Vazquez

    That’s what they get for going to the PS3….. I’m about to go home and play some Black Ops on the final day of their extended Double XP Weekend on.. wait for it… XBOX Live!

    • Anonymous

      So your suggesting they lose out on all PS3 revenue because the hackers that can take down Xbox Liv if they wanted chose to target PSN… Or is it just because you use Xbox Live?? That makes no sense whatsoever..

  • Which way is Up?

    Sadness.

    I have not been able to rock heads in SSF4 on the PSN for too long now… I’m nasty with Ryu and Gouken.

  • Anonymous

    makes sense

  • Anonymous

    makes sense

  • digital conservationist

    Recent information has pointed to a fracture in anonymous, I think anonymous should be listed as enemy #1 as they certainly do not have the interest of the masses… in their own underground culture I suspect they already have a target on their backs… a very well deserved target!

  • Matthew

    well not only can you not play multiplayer games because psn network is down. You cannot also update any of your games that either had game patches or add ons. I will bet LA NOIR will have a game patch after launch to fix a few bugs like many other games do. But no psn network no nothing.

  • Anonymous

    Its funny Capcom is complaining considering there DLC was already on the Disk and your buying basically costum add ons.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FN66KDBJIJ4I6ZJVQHLQBUPY3Y Kyd

    I love how these people say it was Sony’s fault that they got what they deserved for going after a criminal. Yeah make that same case when the rapist/murderer goes after a witness. Criminals are criminals these just hide behind a computer. 

  • Anonymous

    That outage pissed me off. I actually had to leave the couch. And and and, my controller actually recharged to full. I know, it’s crazy!!! I didn’t even know it could store a charge that big. If I get skin cancer b/c I had to step outdoors I’ll hunt down those hackers. No, I probably won’t b/c I’ll be on my couch, but in my online fantasy I might dream about doing something. 

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