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nitekrawler1285 on 26 June 2009
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Avinash_Tyagi said:
nitekrawler1285 said:
Avinash_Tyagi said:
Well actually even then they have to hope that their hardware becomes profitable, since if they keep losing tons of money on PS3's and the like it won't matter if they even make some profit on the sales of movies, they will lose more from the hardware.

I think they would be better off creating more streamlined, focused machines designed around their media, kind of like what Nintendo has done.


What do you think the PSP GO! is?  It's shaped more like a dual shock controller to help play games. Has a gorgeous screen which helps with games and movie playback which can all be purchased from the device itself. It's already been profitable before and with the go the margins only rise.


Problem is that the machine has a very weak games library, as illustrated by poor games sales, look at the DS by comparison, a much less powerful machine with less features, yet it sells far more both hardware and software, and is a profit generating machine for Nintendo

Nintnedo has always had  multi million sellers Sony has always really only had GT.  They rely on liscensing cost for 3rd party devs to make up slack. The software renaissance seems to make this plan a little more feasible in the future now that some 3rd party developers are finding success on the platform.  The PSP is a profit generating machine for Sony despite the fact that up until now most think that the software is underwhelming.  Now that the software will pick up It only gets sweeter for them. 

No one can compare to what Nintendo is doing right now except for maybe Apple.  Their success is unprecendented in this industry in case you hadn't noticed. So saying that anyone who doesn't compare fails is pretty false. There are different levels of achievement and creating the most successful 2nd place entrant into the handheld market to the tune of 50 million no less as well as generating a profit (even though it's swiftly destroyed by it's older non portable cousin PS3) is great.