Microsoft's response to a PS3 price cut?

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Groucho said:

 Hmm... what could it be?

 

Oh gosh you are thick. Last year was Halo year, you know the best-selling game for the 360? First party, developed and published by Microsoft so they were getting the lion's share of the sale instead of just royalties? Halo 2 was the only profitable quarter for the original xbox, a console that accumulated 4 billions (at least) of losses during it's run. Of course they made more money last year, they sold millions and millions of Halo 3's. Nevermind the fact the xbox wing is folded into the EDD. Who knows, maybe the 54% drop in Zune revenue (which they mentioned on their report) might have hurt some.

Anyways, the important point is: you were working hard to convince everyone here that the ps3 was being sold at a profit, in the meanwhile Sony lost around 330 million dollars in the quarter where the most software is sold (and software is royalties for Sony).

Of course the Yen hurt them, according to Sony financials around 50% of that loss comes from fluctuating currency.

So Sony, let me repeat that, lost 160 million dollars the quarter during the which their revenue from software royalties is at its highest. Not to mention all the profit from the ps2 and psp units has been eaten up. So only two choices remain, either Sony Computer is an extremely poorly run business or each ps3 sold is costing them money.

As I said, nevermind the facts ruining a good troll, so you can keep working hard in a desperate attempt to make-believe people the ps3 is a profitable venture. Well, it's not. There's a reason the guy responsible for the whole thing got "eased out", AKA sacked. Now let's just hope poor 'ol krazy ken doesn't get ran over like Yokoi, another famous "eased out" high-level manager of a japanese videogame corporation.