| NJ5 said: What about all the expenses? Those thousands of SCE employees don't pay themselves. There are plenty of expenses which explain Oyvoyvoyv's observation.
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Of those employees several hundreds are developers and marketing/PR people for first party games and system managers, and their paycheck is already counted in the software and services part.
But yes, there will be a lot of other expenses. But by the same logic, those plenty of unknown and unquantified expenses can't be put on the shoulders of the PS3 for the last years as Oyvoyvoyv did in his previous post when he totalled more than $4B loss. They are Sony Game expenses: we don't know if they would have been equal or less if the PS3 had been gathering as much revenue as the Wii by itself or even if it did not exist.
And do we have detailed numbers on the expenses during the PS2 era? Because developing from scratch a network infrastructure and a new console did set back MS of many billion dollars. Plus Sony designed and developed the PSP and its platform during those years. Thus saying that the PS2 era only brought 3B profits (6 years old dollars on average, btw) doesn't really teach us much about how much revenue it generated, or how much the PS3 can in turn. Especially since the whole "services" resource is brand new.
My point: you can say that Sony is losing money with its game division. But saying that the PS3 by itself "is going to lose them money" is unproven, most likely false.
