Great post johnlucas; there are 2 main thoughts that I took away:
1. That is a very interesting observation about Sony's internal decisionmaking. They must know that bailing out on the PS3 prematurely would be counterproductive, but maybe the PS3 will be the last PlayStation no matter how successful it is?
2. A pyrrhic victory is one that destroys the winner as much as the loser. I would say that the PlayStation and PS2 victories were not pyrrhic, despite the relatively low profit, because they were in fact profitable and greatly so.
The Xbox's "successful" entry into the video game market was definitely pyrrhic, and if the PS3 beats out the 360 but never gets a cumulative profit then that will be pyrrhic as well. (For the PS3 example, a small profit will also be pyrrhic IMO because the billions of dollars spent in the loss-leader strategy will have had such a small eventual payoff that it was completely not worth it.)
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