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TWRoO on 15 May 2009
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BladeOfGod said:
jellyfishprince said:
BladeOfGod said:
jellyfishprince said:
my only question is how they will be able to make a ps4 and compete against nintendo and microsoft. they dont have the cash to do so

 

 

Sony made $1,674,413,200 profit on PlayStation, Microsoft lost $9,113,000,000 on Xbox. You should be more worried about Microsoft than Sony.

have you read the post? or seen recent numbers? the *ONLY* profit sony has left is what it made with the ORIGINAL playstation..and that was so many years ago. who know where those funds are now? it has lost everything it has made from the ps2 and psp and some of the psONE profits. so yes, that is scary. on the other hand, microsoft has made money with the xbox 360 and nintendo has made so much more money with the wii. since the xbox360 and the wii were successful and sony has effectively been in the red for the psp, ps2 and ps3 how is it not worrying that the ps4 will not be a worthwhile investment for shareholders??

 

 Well, honestily i dont think Sony really gives a fuck which consle made the most profit for them as long as their division is profitable. And profit MS made in 2008 with 360 wasnt even 20% of the loss they made during 2 last years with 360 so 360 is also not profitable. If you lose 9 billion in 9 years and you made 260 million profit you are NOT profitable.

Anyway this isnt about Xbox. I just wanted to point out that PlayStation is STILL profitable but if they continiue to lose money they wont be profitable anymore.That's all i wanted to say

The division isn't profitable... companies don't work on past numbers, they work with what's happening now, and what will happen in the future.

The Xbox "brand" has pushed past it's losses, they are in the past.... the Playstation brand suffered a huge fuck-up with the PS3, to the point that if they had jumped out of te gaming business in 1999 they would have made more money than they have as of now. And the only reason it is still going is that the losses for the PS3 are decreasing enough that the PS2 and PSP will be able to prop up the division perhaps next fiscal year (ending 2011... although PS2 will probably be about dead by then so it will be the PSP propping up the PS3)

@dli2k3. By the end of this fiscal year yes, the PS3 could start turning a small profit.... but for the FY as a whole the PS3 section will still be in the red, that is pretty much certain given that it must have lost Sony over $1 billion this year (division lost 600mil, but PSP+PS2 will have made more than 400mil together)

So in 2 years time when we are reading the reports for FY ending March 2011 the PS3 might have finally had a profitable year.