| forevercloud3000 said: Some of you are fairly dense. Most systems these days never make a profit from the actual console. They make majority of it from royalties on games. It doesnt matter that they spent up all the money made from console sales of the PS2. They still have not spent up the money from the mountains of money made from royalty game sales. The PS2 spent majority of the money made on the PS1 as well if you didnt know. Why should the PS3 be any different? All this is is marketing spin to have people's trust of Sony waver.j Sony will make their money back in a few ways... -from game royalties on their system -soon the system will be able to break even, or at least make a small profit -Now that blue ray is nxt in line to take the format throne, it will be bringing them in mounds of cash(and it is not owned by like 10 companies, its about three. Sony, Phillips, Pioneer, these are the creators)I think you are confusing it's supporters for the founders. There is a BDA that all support BDA but it is a creation of the companies I named before meaning they get much larger cuts. -Home advertisements and saleable goods within the product etc Sony has nothing to worry about in the long run, this is why they sold it at a loss in the first place |
Last time i checked they counted royalty sales in the companys financial reports... so uh... your the one being dense.
Sony owns 30% of the blu-ray IP. The format is owned by over a dozen companies.
counting the profts of PS2 and PSP... PS3 lost about what PS2 made so far. The "extra" profits that the PS2 and PSP would of made since the PS3's release accounts for the start of the PS1s profits.
So the PS3 is going to need to reach the PS2 level profits to break even let a lone make a profit.
The real advantage of blu-ray is that it ended the HD format war quicker. Blu-ray was never going to lose... but this may give it an actual shot of being the next disc based format to see mainstraim use. (though numbers are currently against it.) If blu-ray captures the mainstream market and not just the enthusiasts market... then maaaaaybe the PS3 breaks even/makes money... but even then you can't be sure that blu-ray wouldn't of did it itself... or if it did.. when etc.
