| 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 |
You had better loan your rose colored glasses to the International Business Community which does not share your confidence in Sony's profitabilty or prospects.
For example The International Business Times July 29,2008
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080729/sony-profit-plunges-from-year-earlier.htm
Sony profit plunges 50 pct from year ago
TOKYO - Sony Corp. said Tuesday its April-June profit plunged to 34.98 billion yen ($326.9 million)--about half that recorded a year ago--as a strong yen, the absence of "Spider-Man 3" revenue and faltering results at its cell phone operations battered earnings. Bottom of Form
The Japanese electronics and entertainment company, which makes the Walkman player and the PlayStation 3 game machine, had recorded 66.46 billion yen in profit for the fiscal first quarter the previous year.
Price competition in its core electronics sector also led to Sony's worse-than-expected quarterly performance. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial had forecast a 52 billion yen ($486 million) profit.
Sony also lowered its full year profit forecast Tuesday to 240 billion yen ($2.24 billion) from an earlier 290 billion yen ($2.71 billion), blaming expected poor results at its Sony Ericsson mobile joint venture and a pessimistic outlook in electronics.
In Other Words the Game Division is doing better than most of their other divisions and we all know "how well" that's doing. Sony could actually be in fairly serious trouble.
