| bdbdbd said: @Alby: There's also the thing, that in order for the PSP (and any other product), to remain profitable, it needs to remain a certain production and shipment level. If PSP hardware keeps selling, it shouldn't have profitability issues, but if sales go down, the profit margin may go down too. |
Yes, this has to do also with Sony's size: a smaller company could pay to have sales even smaller than PSP, but for a big company it wouldn't be as good, a big company has bigger costs that need bigger earnings, and the PS brand itself needs good sales to be kept alive and kickin'. If SW doesn't help it enough, Sony must emphasize and advertise more those functions that permitted good HW sales anyway.
IMHO, for Sony and PSP, UMD is a bigger defeat than games sales. I alredy thought it was doomed years ago, UMD is an optical medium too Sony-proprietary, BD struggled to win even supported by a large consortium, UMD couldn't count on such third party support, they'd have supported it only if Sony were able to make it a winner by its sole forces.
