HappySqurriel said:
WereKitten said:
I can't make much sense of this post. A concurrency of causes brings a financial loss to Sony. Max rightly points out that the PS3 hardware cost is only one of them.
Your answer is
a) that he is wrong, that all of them concurred. Except that nobody doubted or denied that.
b) a weird similitude with occasional causes vs deep causes in an historical event, that goes nowhere because it's not clear which causes you think are structural and which ones are occasional. Is Sony structurally in trouble because its premium market is shrinking in general electronics? Is it structurally in trouble because it spends too much in R&D? Or are these occasional?
All things said, you sort of admitted that there are several reasons for Sony's losses, and yet your stance is that shareholders somehow will take a financially damaging road - cutting the PS3 life, thus losing the profit that comes from it overall thanks to software - because, what, they are not as good as you at analyzing their company's financial situation?
Please do explain.
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Not releasing a new console and keeping your old console on the market longer does not (necessarily) translate into greater sales or increased profitability. For a variety of reasons, the longer you keep a console on the market with mediocre (or worse) sales the more damage you will do to your relationship with gamers, developers and retailers which can have a dramatic impact on how well your next system can sell.
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This is a reply to my post how, exactly? General statements like these are quite useless to debate upon, unless you put them in the real context.
