| staticneuron said: NO NO NO!! What are you people doing?!?! Using these numbers and facts...... Just close your eyes and listen to us.... Sony is a small company, they didn't plan for this, their pockets are not as deep as microsoft, and they are way in over their heads with the PS3. Now repeat..... the PS1 and PS2 were flukes!
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Hahaha... Did you look at some of the numbers posted? Sony lost less than half a billion dollars launching the PS2... By the second year, they were in the black...
Now we're talking about... What was it? 1.7 billion? 450 million a quarter? Something like that... And it doesn't look like they'll get in the black in the second year...
And no, their pockets aren't as deep as Microsoft's. There may literally not be another company in the world that can shrug off a billion dollars a year as absent-mindedly as MS did on XBox. The entire XBox project over 6 years, could literally be funded by 6 months of Windows and Office profits. Sony is not in that type of position. They ARE in over their heads, and the only people not seeing that are:
1. Fanboys.
2. Those who put their faith in "strong companies" or "strong brands" instead of "strong business plans."
3. People who proclaim that everything is going well for everyone in order to appear unbiased.
PS1 and PS2 were not flukes by any measure... But neither is the PS3's failure.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
