mztazmz on 15 March 2009
| shams said: Summary: - Ninty is making around $1bn/year profit (average) - MS has lost an absolute shitload breaking into the industry - when you factor in '95/'94 (Sony R&D for PS1), overall they are around break even point - or up $1-1.5bn. As a company, Sony may well be considerably better off if they never entered the industry in the first place. The last two years have been (by far) the best profits ever for Nintendo. This coming year for Sony will be a bad one - be interesting to compare overall vrs SCEE. |
Uh, how do you figure???
They lost nearly 2 billion in 2007 and a tad over 1 billion in 2008. Obviously they were selling the PS3 at a huge loss at launch, but cheaper computer parts over time, plus the moving from the 90nm Cell and GPU to 65nm has brought costs down.
They were believed to be losing around $300 per console at launch and now it's believed that they are losing almost nothing.
Here's 2009 for Sony:
Small losses from PS3 consoles(possibly at break-even sometime this year when moving to 45nm).
Profits from PS3 games and accesories / PS2 consoles, games, and accesories / PSP systems, games, and accesories.
Also with strong lineups for PS3 and PSP games, I'm 99% sure they will post a profit. Seems logical to me
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