kjj4t9rdad said:
AlkamistStar said:
Seihyouken said:
hardyhar said:
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Seece said:
It's not meant to boost sales, just keep them sustained. If they can do what they did last holiday season then they're doing great. |
I mean, in four years X360 only has dropped $100 (from $299 to $199 and $399 to $299), while PS3 in only three years has dropped $300 - from $599 to $299.
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The Elite was $480 at launch in the US, so that's a drop of $180.
Sony's losses since the PS3 was launched: -
2007 - $2,483,437,762
2008 - $1,330,793,265
2009 - $624,981,361
And yeah, you can say "but MS has made a loss too", but they don't have 2 other profitable consoles on sale at the same time. The PS3 has cost them billions and the Slim is going to lose them even more.
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And Microsoft isn't funding one of the largest collections of first and second party development studios in the industry. Nor have they taken it upon themselves to avoid passing the costs of their online network onto the consumer and paid for it in full out of their own pocket.
It's easy to spin things one way or the other, but none of this has anything to do with how the 360 will sell this holiday.
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Well from your reasoning...if one of the reasons why Sony continually losses money is because of the online network they pay for, "out of their own pocket"...maybe they should start charging for it, lol.
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I guess you need to be reminded that MS lost more money on the Xbox than Sony has on the PS3, also the 1.6 billion, and counting, the RROD cost MS is not included in the "gaming devision" so your comments seem like a bitter fan boy. Still, I must ask, what the hell does that have to do with how well the 360 will sell the holiday?
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Just how much has the PS3 cost Sony? We know it's well over 4.4 billion dollars just from adding up their losses in the last 3 years, but those losses also include the profits they'll have made from the PS2, PSP, game sales, accessory sales, downloadable content etc., so clearly the PS3 has lost them WAY more than "just" 4.4 billion.
