seece said:
Despite coming last the Gamecube was profitable for Nintendo, pretty early on I think. That wont be the case of the PS3 ... its not a case of "giving up" Sony has shareholders to think about, and if the PS3 never makes back any money they wont be able to get a PS4 out based on their say so alone. Microsoft losing a ton on the Xbox is a different story ... I think they knew there was a big chance they would lose money on the Original Xbox but they went in on a mission and expected to lose money. Sony expected to dominate this gen like the previous 2. |
Nintendo's revenue also came from other sources too (namely the gameboy), the gamecube was nintendo's worst era and saw their first quarterly net lost since going public. The gamecube did not mmake a profit 'early on' if you account for development cost.
Miscrosoft has shareholders as well, the reason the Xbox was able to lose money was because MS was still profitable overall and they entered the game industry with the expectation of losing money and accounted for it.
Sony's current position is bad, but consider their history I'd be very doubtful that shareholders would stop Sony from trying again when the economy recovers and Sony's other division starts seeing higher profit margin.
Either way, Sony will be stripped lean by this crisis, which is good in a way.
