What's crazy to me is that even without the bait-and-switch fiasco, requiring a PSN account just doesn't seem worth it financially. Steam has a global user base, all these countries are small, but they really add up. The top 10 countries are ~58% of steam users and the rest are in "small" countries. Then you've got a percentage of people within the big countries that don't want to create a psn account, realistically probably 1%, but that's 1% right off the top for no reason. They're could easily be losing 30% of revenue on all titles just because they want to ban people and goose their account metrics.
What's crazy to me is that even without the bait-and-switch fiasco, requiring a PSN account just doesn't seem worth it financially. Steam has a global user base, all these countries are small, but they really add up. The top 10 countries are ~58% of steam users and the rest are in "small" countries. Then you've got a percentage of people within the big countries that don't want to create a psn account, realistically probably 1%, but that's 1% right off the top for no reason. They're could easily be losing 30% of revenue on all titles just because they want to ban people and goose their account metrics.