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stranne on 17 August 2007
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FilaBrasileiro said:
stranne said:

DoesWhatNintenDont,

Sorry for the late reply.

 

I may have a very naive and simplified view of things, but this is how I see it.

(quarterly)

Sony:

PS2 = good profit, decreasing

PS3= huge losses, won't go away for some time

BluRay = small profit now, huge potential

 

MS:

X360 = huge losses, will soon break even and make a (small) profit

Live = some profit now, huge potential

 

Sony did great with PS2, but they're digging themselves deeper and deeper into a hole with PS3. MS got into a deep financial hole with XB, but are getting themselves up from that hole with X360.


Is that your personal opinion or what?

Last I heard PS3 manufacturing costs were going down significantly and they were moving towards a 65 nm chip.

 

Besides moving to a 65nm chip, I see nothing to suggest that the 360 will soon break even and make a small profit.

As far as Live goes, only about 20% of my friends with 360 (most of them casual gamers) have the Gold membership, the rest all only have Silver for Demos and Trailers.

I had a link and I'll try to find it where there was MS, Sony and Nintendo FY earning from 2000 to 2006 or so. Microsof has not made a profit at all, and like I said, nothing suggests that they are digging themselves out of this hole.

 


It's the trends from their financial reports. MS have been lowering their losses per quarter for some time now. Hardware and software together of course.

The money is in software, and MS has a great (next gen) head start there.