@NJ5
No offence taken :) Far from trying to find excuses for the undeniable mistakes Sony might have made in their evaluations. Aside a certain dislike for Microsoft because of their business practices in the OS field, I have no strong feelings towards brands, and am myself a PC+Wii+PS3 gamer. Just trying to put the numbers i find in the charts in a context.
@Fishy Joe
Sony as a whole is losing alot of money and went in the red for, how much? 1.1 billions I think?
But I'm pretty sure that's not the fault of the PS3 sales... it's still sold at a loss, even though it should become profitable against the 400$ price during 2009.
The point is that it's not a surprise: it's a calculated upfront loss, and I bet that they had a nice timechart since 4 years ago where the IBM engineers set milestones for the size reduction of the Cell over time and in general forecastings about price-saving measures because of production techniques advancement.
