NJ5 said:
Rainbird said:
NJ5 said:
mrstickball said:
Woops, my bad :-p
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There's what papflesje just said, plus the fact that those estimates don't show us which exchange rates they used for the estimates, and that's a huge factor these days.
In a week Sony will release their earnings and we'll probably be able to see how right those estimates are (I would bet they're wrong).
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How can we see if the estimates are on or off track?
Even if they have the PS3 hardware revenue as a standalone number (I have no idea, which is why I am saying like this), the fluctuations in currency and continues drop in price for the PS3 hardware, should make it impossible to make anything more than another qualified guess.
Unless they state the current cost of the PS3..?
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Because PS3 hardware is probably the only big thing they're losing money on. If we see them losing hundreds of millions throughout the quarter, it's very likely they're still losing a lot of money on hardware (at least it would look like the only plausible explanation).
For example, losing $500 million at 4 milion PS3s shipped would mean at the very least they're losing $125 per unit according to these assumptions.
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Ah, that way. Although it would still be pretty bad method for indicating whether or not their guess is on or off-track, as the production cost will be much higher than in the beginning of the fiscal year than at the end of it.
