The year so far..... how long can Sony stand this?

[Aiemond]

Procrastinato said:

This is a funny topic, kinda like the "Why did teh Chicken cross teh road?" of VGChartz.

I graph you the answer:

http://www.vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=PS2&reg1=All&cons2=PS3&reg2=All&cons3=X360&reg3=All&start=39747&end=39852

Note how the red + blue lines (Sony products) add up to more than the green line (MS product) pretty much every week, except for a couple over the holidays, and have for eons. Sony probably makes more $$ on each unit in the blue line than MS makes on many units in the green line, and the red line loss probably isn't very much any longer. Also note I didn't add in handhelds.

How does Target survive, when they sell way less toys than Toys R Us sells?? How do they do it?!?

Perhaps we should ask... how does MS survive? Is it some miracle? Is it the deep pockets? How do they do it??

 

Your analogies do not work in this discussion. The reason target makes money when selling more toys is because it is making profit on the other items it sells, unless you think Target is only a game store. The same is true of microsoft. The bulk of its business is not the game division. Now, Sony on the other hand, has other divions that lose far more money than the game division is right now. Add to that the fact that the game division is not doing well in a time when it is harder to write off losses means that the company is not doing well.