Sony Has Lost More on the PS3 Than it Made on PS2

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celine said:

ookaze said:

From the 3 console makers own official fiscal reports : http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111003

Tentative to reproduce some here :

FY* Sony** Nintendo Microsoft 1998 974,000,000 629,000,000 1999 1,130,000,000 645,000,000 2000 730,000,000 421,000,000 2001 -409,000,000 726,000,000 2002 623,000,000 800,000,000 -750,000,000 2003 939,000,000 560,000,000 -1,191,000,000 2004 650,000,000 316,000,000 -1,215,000,000 2005 404,000,000 777,000,000 -485,000,000 2006 75,000,000 894,000,000 -1,262,000,000 2007 -1,969,000,000 1,489,000,000 -1,892,000,000 2008 -1,265,000,000 2,480,000,000 426,000,000 2009 51,000,000 1,026,000,000 Totals 1,953,000,000 10,762,000,000 -6,369,000,000

There you have it. The PS3 ate up all the PS2 profits already and then some of the PS1 profits.

In more than 10 years, the total profit of Sony Entertainment division (which includes Playstation mostly) is barely equal to its first 2 years of profit.

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Also note Fiscal 2009 is positive now because they didn't sell too many PS3's compared to PS2 and PSP... If PS3 has a good holiday season, Sony has a bad fiscal...

Reask, to answer your question, look at the first 7 years.

Edit1: Also to be fair, that doesn't include initial PS1 development costs.

Edit 2: @Jacezo, no those include the entire game division.