PSN raises $1.29 million for Japan

this was sweet! much respect to all who participated! ^_^

I'll have to get those themes when I have a minute. Very good job on this from everyone. I wonder if Microsoft and Nintendo are doing similar things. I haven't had time to check. Between Haiti and now Japan, I don't know which was worse. Both places were devastated due to these frequent Earthquake. I hope we make it through 2012.

This make me happy I donated :) It's nice that Sony provided us a way to do this on PSN instead of trying to find a way to online and maybe succumbing to scams! Good on you Sony, Japan my thoughts are with you!

10$ is all I could afford but I'm proud I did it instead of buying something.

Bravo Sony, raising my hat (that I don't have) for your commendable deeds. :)

Well done everyone that donated! I'm loving the theme, it's really cute :3

awesome!

Yeah,let's help even the minimun 5$ or 5? will be good.If all PS3 gamers do help........ Let's go!

Doesn't matter how much you donated, when a large amount of people pull together, even $5 can turn into a million, great job everyone.

I wonder when EA will take action

give credit to those who deserve it.and i give credit to those who donated.

I was glad to see that Sony made it this straightforward and simple to donate, similar to the insta-$10-with-a-text thing offered by mobile networks in the US. Several software companies have done the same. This is actually a good affirmation for me that even gamer-folk who might otherwise remain detached or disinterested in current events have a moral code that much of the public would like to think they lack.

That would be the day when we see an article named "EA raises money to help japan"

@Wiplash4elpres: Sorry brah for dragging your name into it. My fault to assume based on your link to Gates' donation and not checking earlier posts. Mea Culpa. agree 0 disagree 0 = 0 (select an action below) ______________ Report Abuse To Moderator

good for the gamers!!! who says we are all a much of selfless nerds?

Good to hear people are willing to help. Japan is a beautiful country, very peaceful people, and rich culture.

@Crash_WL if anyone came here & type some stupid fanboyish comment their on a whole new leve of selfishness & i pitty them.

@Crash_WL if anyone came here & type some stupid fanboyish comment their on a whole new leve of selfishness & i pitty them.

This is a noble and a necessary posture from Sony.My next games are from the playstation network,but somebody please inform me if Nintendo have already done something alike yet.I don't doubt that Nintendo would at least donate a million too but I need the facts, not just the wondering.

it's a small token of gratitude for the hundreds of hours ive spent enjoying their great games, thank you japan

@Wiplash4elpres: Sorry brah for dragging your name into it. My fault to assume based on your link to Gates' donation and not checking earlier posts. Mea Culpa.

I'm proud to have donated 5$, I wish I had more in my wallet... Stop the stupid system wars, we're talking about people who are suffering for f***'s sake, grow up just for a day.

Great news! Good to see the gamers care about the motherland of games.

I bet it would have been higher if it hadn't been for those damn PSN hackers the other day. Anyway, great job people (and sony) :)

@WilliamRLBaker do u read? its not sony itself, its the gamers who have donated to the japan cause via psn.

@WilliamRLBaker Your mad because there is no mention of Mircrosoft why would you turn something like this into "It has to be a Fanboy thing"...Man grow up will you...

I trust Sony a lot more than any religious or political organization...so I feel a lot better about their competence than others attempting to help in this grave situation.

Helping our Japanese brothers and sisters is our responsibility

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happy to hear that

We are all happy to help!! :D Be proud gamers, we did something great!

Sony cares for others unlike Microsoft.

Not a fan of the theme but I donated for the cause, it's the only charity that I was willing to give more than $2 for. With family/idols/all the coll stuff I love over there, I gotta give something...I felt I should of donated more but I'd end up giving my life savings...in the end it's the thought that counts, if they do it again, I'm donating more next time.

I dont see hackers donating anything... hhmmm.. they'll just hack it and get it for free anyways LoL! jk ... where you at microsoft!

Sweet. I am glad to be a proud contributor :)

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Donated today through PSN and didn't even download the theme- I just think this is a great idea; more charities should offer to take donations through consoles. Think of how much money gamers could come up with if we were given the option to donate an extra dollar to a charity any time we buy pay-dlc? I'd do it- and if a million others do the same (which is likely, considering the gamer population is way bigger than one million) that's a million dollars! On that note, Activision should definitely donate at least a dollar per Black Ops map pack to Japan- at the very least it would help justify them being $5 too expensive as it is.

@LiqMD ha ha, i know i know

nyc wrk!!!!!!

I donated again cuz of the new theme but I also think Sony should offer an avatar. In Mexico, there are people from red cross asking for donations sometimes in the streets or other places and they usually give and put you a sticker or something like that on the t-shirt.

Awesome!

Maybe this disaster we will actually see what these millions are doing, unlike previous earthquake funds to another island.

I donated just to help, but I love the theme.

That's great news :) Take that Foxnews!

Excellent Job to us gamers that will give those anti-gaming politicians something to think about. Also, I wonder what Fox News has to say about the gaming community contributing to the relief efforts?

@the_requiem My initial post on this thread was pointing out to someone that it wasn't Sony donating the money, but the gamers themselves. And I agree with all that part of what you are saying. Gamers donating is a good thing. Also, I didn't turn it into a fanboy war. The person mentioned Bill Gates not donating money and I politely showed him/her evidence otherwise. Now, lets quit this nonsense...

You know, TF2 raised over $300,000 with ONE in-game item and that somehow is completely overlooked. Blah.

@WilliamRLBaker Well I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Sony put out a press release saying their PSN charity drive was very successful. Now this is where it gets tricky, so make sure to stick with me. Gamespot is a website that reports about video game news. So I'm sure there was at least 1 person in their office who thought "Hey, I could write an article relating to this press release!". Honestly, people who say that gamespot puts out certain news to incite fanboy rants and get more views/comments etc. are just as crazy as the fanboys themselves. Gamespot had their own donate to Japan thing, but why didn't they post their success. It must have been cause they're waiting to counter the Kotaku numbers and get more page views, right?

@WilliamRLBAker @Wiplash4elpres: You're right, every company worth its salt has donated. But news here is not that Sony donated, which am sure they would've, but GAMERS donating. PSN was just the medium, it were PSN users who raised all that money, that is why GameSpot is reporting about this. Stop turning it into another fanboy flamewar. All corporations donate coz it makes good business sense, simple as that. But gamers donating, even when they didn't have to, is the real news.

*shakes head* so much fanboy wars on such a sad subject but any one notice how Gamespot didnt report about the money Micrsooft donated along with computers, and point to point software built up to syncronize efforts to bring food, water..etc throughout the regions affected...Why do you say they did this? to garner hits and usage while people fight over stupid crap like who donated the most and who donated. There are few companies that haven't donated.