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TWRoO on 15 May 2009
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BladeOfGod said:
TWRoO said:

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)

 

 

DId you check out the link i posted on last page? When you count overall earnings Sony has made 1.60 billion profit on PlayStation, so they have cash to enter at least 1 generation. that was my answer to jellyfishprince.

I don't need to. I have that thread bookmarked.

I realise that Sony's Game division as a whole is still in the black.... that's why I said that about if they had pulled out of gaming in 1999 (they would be more than 1.6 billion in the black if they had)

What I was reponding to is your assumption that Sony will be using the fact that they profited years ago to prove the division is still ok.... it isn't, they are looking at now, and how much they are loosing, and forcasting how much they will lose with it. They can see the division at least will stop bleeding money in the future, which is why the PS3 hasn't been discontinued.

Yes the Xbox division has lost a crap load more money (Xbox orignal probably lost more like $5 billion, not 6.... because you have to take note of what was already being spent on the X360 development before it released, as well as money the Zune probably lost in the time before 2005) but they are alread regaining profits.... and no they don't have a hope in hell for the X360 to bring back all the money they lost from Xbox.... It will struggle to bring back even half of what it itself has lost them (about $4 billion so far, but that is decreasing)