The end for Xbox? PS3 outsells 360 following price cut in America!

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ceres said:

mitsuhide said:
The PS3 will not die any time soon either and Sony will not drop their Games division for along time because 1.Its their most profitable area 2.It practically put them on the map of big companies. 3.They may be losing money but if you saw their bank balance you would see they have enough money from the PS2 to keep it going for along time.

I didn't realize sony was off the map of big companies prior to the PS. And face it, they're sacrificing the PS3 because if blu-ray replaced DVD, they will make FAR more money down the line. Will the PS3 die? Not necessarily but  they had to know they were giving up a lot of sales in order to get the blu-ray out there.

Even though it has been claimed that 'Sony will make more money off of Blu-Ray than off of the PS3' I have never seen any numbers to back that up and highly doubt the claim; certainly licencing fees on DVD/Blu-Ray may be quite large but there are a lot of companies to split that with.

I honestly expect that Sony believed they could push Blu-Ray with the PS3 without having any negative impact on the PS3's sales ... They potentially believed that people would get a 'second job' and the PS3 would be more popular than the PS3 because of the inclusion of Blu-Ray