BladeOfGod said:
TWRoO said:
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 losing, 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)
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So you dont think PlayStation will start making profit again like 360 did last year?
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Read the blue.
I do believe the division will start being profitable again, The PS3 should even manage to start making money in the future, but after weekly break even point (which could be a further $1 billion down the line) they will be lucky to make even $1 billion.
$6.5 billion in the red now, if it stops losing money after $7.5 billion then even in the lucky scenario where it manages to profit $1 billion thereafter, it would still have lost what it has now.... and is indeed by long and far the biggest console loss Sony has made (considering PS1/2 and P have all made profit over their lives this is obvious) which is what this thread was about.
