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Kantor on 27 July 2010
XxXProphecyXxX said:

LoL I just realized, too bad for the OP...

If this was "Sony to post Gazillion loss" thread it would have over 100 post by now and brought in a lot of VG$, now look @ this thread about "Sony to post profit" not even reached 50 post ROFL!!!!!!

Unfortunately, VG$ don't exist any more



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Mummelmann on 27 July 2010
XxXProphecyXxX said:

LoL I just realized, too bad for the OP...

If this was "Sony to post Gazillion loss" thread it would have over 100 post by now and brought in a lot of VG$, now look @ this thread about "Sony to post profit" not even reached 50 post ROFL!!!!!!


This is true, there are few things people like more than Sony losing money.



jarrod on 27 July 2010
FF_Fanatic said:

studio liverpool dissolved ?? when did that happen??


Last year, they were "merged" with Evolution.



Alby_da_Wolf on 27 July 2010

Does this news mean that we'll get back soon the good ol' arrogant bastard Sony? Bad for users, but good for everybody else, the current mild, fair, good mannered Sony is so boring, except Kevin Butler, obviously!   



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ethomaz on 27 July 2010

Very good news for Sony... is this the first time than PlayStation Division post profits after PS3 launch???



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gurglesletch on 27 July 2010
ethomaz said:

Very good news for Sony... is this the first time than PlayStation Division post profits after PS3 launch???


I think they profited during 06 when the PS3 originally launched but i may be mistaken. The games division also profited last x-mas by 11 million or something like that.




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starcraft on 28 July 2010
Kushalafang said:
starcraft said:

I assume that was directed at me?  I am a user of all three current generation consoles actually.


Why lie? You obviously dont have all three current gen consoles your sig says it all.

Not that it is any of your concern, but a simple perusal of my posting history would provide fairly conclusive evidence that I do own all three consoles.

Aside from the fact that (as the poster below you noted) my figures are out of date, what is wrong with my signature?



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starcraft on 28 July 2010
binary solo said:
thelifatree said:
Kushalafang said:
starcraft said:

I assume that was directed at me?  I am a user of all three current generation consoles actually.


Why lie? You obviously dont have all three current gen consoles your sig says it all.


It's possible. I won 1 console (in a drawing) and bought 2. I wish I didn't buy one of them. And I don't really like it though I enjoyed some games on it a lot.

I'm not going to name consoles. as that's not my point here. Just saying it's possible. Though lieing is probably more probable.

OT: Well, I like seeing companies that make cool things not lose money. because that means they won't go out of business. :D though I'm irritated at sony for disolving studio liverpool

You both fell into starcraft's cunning trap. Starcraft wrote "user" not owner. That means at least one use of each console. See, I'm a Wii user because I played it a bit when I went to visit some friends at easter (they only had the casual stuff, because they have young kids and the parents aren't gamers, so my experience didn't get me the slightest bit interested in buying a Wii, at this stage).

@welshbloke: I'll be buying 360s Arcade used when the next generation starts. I figure it'll be at the right price for me at that point, considering there are only a few 360 exclusives I'm interested in. Same probably goes for Wii, so I can play some Zelda.

You take the internet a bit too seriously mate.

I purchased, with money I worked to possess, all three consoles.  The one exception is the Xbox 360, for which I only paid half the retail price, with my father covering the other half.

I spent just under $AU700 on a PS3, and just under $AU400 on a Wii.  And several hundred dollars since on all three consoles.



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starcraft on 28 July 2010
wholikeswood said:
starcraft said:
M.U.G.E.N said:
Simulacrum said:

Umm..Microsoft's price cut wouldn't effect to Sony at all (well Ps3 maybe 5-10k hw)..It would just boost Xbox 360.


Well said! sad to see some xbox users turn into the usual Ninty users who run around screaming oooh we have great sales this week the competition is the doomzed nowz omgz, funny stuff

anywho good for Sony, they are slowly but surely turning things around

I assume that was directed at me?  I am a user of all three current generation consoles actually.

It is naive to think that the Xbox 360 has no effect on the PS3 and vica versa.  The more sales one has proportionate to the other, the easier it is for that console to secure exclusives in the future, something that is especially critical with their new motion controls.

The PS3/360 install bases are so comparable and will stay that way. Third party exclusives are dead.

As for motion exclusives, we don't know how Move and Kinect are going to perform yet. Regardless, I expect most publishers will aim to cater to both as much as possible, since the install base for a peripheral accessory on either console is never going to be particularly huge on its own. They need to provide to the two platforms combined if they want to ensure profitability.

Unfunded ones of course.

I don't think for a moment that having no inducement from either major company any third party will make a game exclusively for the Xbox 360 or PS3, but a larger proportional userbase brings the cost of such an inducement down.

Additionally, at the tail end of the generation a console with a bigger userbase is more likely to stick around in it's very profitable twilight phase.

Ultimately though, those are reasons Sony and MS are still interested in having the larger userbase, but they are irrelevant to the fact that the two HD consoles are very interchangable.



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Killiana1a on 28 July 2010
Mummelmann said:
XxXProphecyXxX said:

LoL I just realized, too bad for the OP...

If this was "Sony to post Gazillion loss" thread it would have over 100 post by now and brought in a lot of VG$, now look @ this thread about "Sony to post profit" not even reached 50 post ROFL!!!!!!


This is true, there are few things people like more than Sony losing money.

One of those few things is Microsoft losing money along with the whole casual vs. hardcore meme that analysts such as Pachter have fueled since the Wii shattered their prediction of the PS3 dominating this gen.

As for Sony posting profits in all of it's divisions, great job (two thumbs up with a goofy grin style)!

Now if China reversed the ban on console video games, then the profits for Sony would be sky high and we would all be talking about how Sony is dominating the Chinese market.