Does anyone think Sony will pull the plug on the PS3 or PSP?

[Bodhesatva]

Hus said:

Bodhesatva said:

You do realize that the other parts of Sony are already heavily funding the PS3, correct? They've funneled several billion dollars away from their other divisions to support the PS3. This is already happening. The question really is: how deep in the hole are they willing to go, and how long are they willing to sustain it? I think the answers are, generally speaking, "very deep" and "quite a while," so I don't think there is much to worry about, but the general premise is already true: the gaming division has been hemorrhaging money for two years now, and there is no end in sight.

 

 

 

 

No end is sight, opinion as fact nice.

The swich to 65 nanometer technology will bring the PS3 out of the red, Ibm has been developing 65 nano Cell chips for a few months now. Sony them selfs said the PS3 will be out of the red once 65 nano Cell and Rsx chips are used. SCE will be profitable due to PS2 and PSP when PS3 is around the point of breaking even..

You really need to do research.

http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=11760&page=10

As you can see, Sony lost more money last quarter (300 million) than they did in the same quarter last year (270 million). Their losses have increased, and this is before the recent price cut took effect. The price cut has already cost Sony:

http://vgchartz.com/aweekly.php

Given that the price cut took effect July 9th, Sony has already seen additional losses of ~18 million dollars, and those losses will continue to increase as more PS3s are sold within this new-price window. This does not even include the additional losses inherent in the European bundles, which are difficult to calculate (And are definitely lower than 100 dollars, of course).

Honestly, Hus, please don't mock people when they have done research and you haven't. It's quite embarrasing. Just for completeness' sake, even though I've already posted all of this, here is a link to the quarterly fiscal reports of all three companies:

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/kessan/english.html
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/index.html
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/default.mspx