axumblade said:
NJ5 said:
axumblade said:
If it makes you feel any better, they're expecting the cost to make PS3's to drop significantly. Also, Sony made a slight profit in their gaming department due to software sales, with even more great exclusives coming out this year, I think it will end up alright for Sony. They pretty much just have to stick things out. |
They made an insignificant profit over the holiday quarter ($4 million or something like that), which was smaller than the holiday quarter of 2007. Falling PS2/PSP sales don't help of course.
Things for a price cut:
- dropping manufacturing costs
- they need one
Things against a price cut:
- strong Yen
- state of the company as a whole (spending one more billion on price cuts is one more nail in the potential coffin)
- falling PS2/PSP sales (their cash cows)
All in all I think Sony has much more important things to worry about than a few measly points of market share, but let's see how it plays out.
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The PS2 is finally dying but the PS3 doesn't need its training wheels nearly as much as they used to. Also, I don't know where you've been but the PSP is on its way back up due to a ton of new games and possibly a new model coming out. I wouldn't count the PSP out yet honestly.
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The reason the PS3 doesn't need its training wheels as much is that it didn't get a price cut yet, of course. If they went back to $100+ ($150-200+ ?) losses on PS3 hardware, without the PS2 to help it wouldn't look as good.
As for the PSP, I was referring to the following picture from Sony. Note the falling PSP hardware and software sales during the holiday quarter.
