Even if 2009 will be the year of the ps3, will it be to late?

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thx1139 said:

Oyvoyvoyv said:

Asmo said:

yushire said:

 Reality says so otherwise, 360 beats PS3 IN OTHERS during before christmas season...

Because of it's lower price, Sony can still drop it's price, MS can't anymore...

 

Are you sure? I would think Sony and MS are now seeing similar losses pr console sold. As x360 sells more SW, I believe MS still loses less money on X360 than Sony does on Ps3.

They are pretty much equally situated for a price cut right now. Of course, this isn't a very good way to analyse - it would suggest Nintendo dropping Wii's price to 75 dollars!

 

On the average 360 sale the 360 sells at a profit. The PS3 does not.  Last fiscal quarter results proved that.  When we know the PS2 and the PSP hardware sells at a profit. When we know that the software for PS2, PSP and even PS3 sells at a profit. When we know accessories for PS2, PSP, and PS3 sell for a profit.  If the games division has a loss like Sony's has for the last 2-3 quarters what would be the reason for that loss?

PS3 may drop $100 in 2009 and the 360 will still drop $50 when MS feels it is the correct time.  Remember the PS3 has dropped the same (or more) than the 360 has in a year less time on the market.

 

Before the price cut (or really the dollar/euro crisis), I thought it was something like this (these are just my feelings and may have little resemblance to the truth)

The Wii was sold at around 60-70 dollars profit

The X360 was sold at around 10-15 dollars profit

The Ps3 was sold at around 20-30 dollars loss (which is pretty optimistic considering they launched it at about even, and have since dropped several houndred dollars).

 

Boom. Market splashes. Doesn't really mean a lot for how much MS earns pr console sold. So they are now at a slight loss (25-35 dollars)

Yen strengthens against Dollar/Euro. A lot

Wii is now sold at only 40-50 dollars profit

Ps3 now sold at 50-60 dollars loss.

 

(The reason I believe the drop for Wii earnings pr console is smaller than for Ps3, is that Wii sells more in Japan, and to a certain degree Americas (which dollar dropped less than the Euro did))