Perry: "Sony has no chance of making money on the PS3"

[jman8]

HappySqurriel said:

tombi123 said:

HappySqurriel said:

The 'Losses' of the PS3 start long before it was released being that Sony spent billions of dollars in research and development in order to produce the PS3 so it is unlikely that Sony will ever recover the money that they have 'Lost' on the PS3 so far ...

The thing which will (truely) make this look particularly bad for Sony is that they will have to release a follow up console for the PSP in the next couple of years, and then a follow up for the PS3 soon after that, and since the PS3 will never be as profitable as the PS2 was it will be difficult to hide the expenses associated with launching consoles.

 

Yeah, I think we will know when their new consoles are coming lol.

Do you really think the PSP will not be replaced in Norh America and Europe within a couple of years with how software is selling? Do you really believe the PS3 will not be replaced by the end of 2012? The loss leader business strategy requires massive expenses 12 to 18 months before a console launches and 12 to 18 months after a console launches, do you really think a console which will (likely) have sold to less than half of the PS2 will be able to handle the expenses as well as the PS2 did?

 

Who says Sony's going to follow the loss leader strategy with the next PSP??? Who's to say they don't pull a Nintendo and release a PSP2 that's just a mild technological upgrade of the current system in the same vein Nintendo designed the Wii? They're already following Nintendo's Gameboy/GBA strategy by releasing numerous hardware revisions to generate sales.