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Kasz216 on 27 October 2007
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Funny is they also whined about PS2 dragging Sony down due to its expensive hardware back in the early stages of the previous gen.

Funny this is this didn't happen from the mainstream press.

You have to remember that the PS2 never caused the games division to post losses this big. Oh, and the cost of PS2 hardware is a drop in the bucket compared to the PS3.


So by your standard a title of "Disaster of the Day: Sony" from forbes is not mainstream ?

Oh and the profits from PS2 are a drop in the bucket compared to what they can make from Games, PSn, Bluray and movie/music.


That article was about the PS2s launch cost lowering the profits of their electronics division. However, the PS3 nearly a year after launch has posted a significant loss.

The ~25mil the forbes article cites is a joke compared to the >800mil the PS3 has lost them. Sure, they can eventually make up the losses, but that means a large amount of software sales and hardware sales. Currently the PS3 isn't exactly doing either. Also, the profits from the PS2 are nothing to sneeze at. But nice job bringing up services that have yet to launch, and may never launch.

visunary said: they're right... i should just throw my PS3 off the roof...

Yeah, cause the article wasn't about the financial losses the PS3 has incurred, you know, stuff that might matter to investors. Thosearticles just wanted you to regret you're purchase - silly MS funded press.


Honestly people laugh at Sony for their loses yet Microsoft is still -7 billion for their game division (havent seen latest report yet) and they are in courts yet again over the 360 to extend the warrenty over all destroyed Games/Movies/CDs and the DVD drives, and the HD-DVD drive and HD-DVDs. Microsoft is on the verge of losing and this will be an even bigger hit then the 1 billion from the RROD case. The costs could easily top 3 billion dollars.


And? That's not news yet. The Mainstream press is only going to report things after they happen in the videogame world cause it's not that important to them and just filler for the 24 hour news networks. Once they lose i'm sure they'll bring it up... for like a day Then they'll get back to the OJ coverage and asking if America is ready for a Black president while simaltaniously asking if O'Bama is black enough. (Wha?)


 half the articles are basically bs anyways. halo 3 isnt the hottest game ou, maybe in console land but I could have sworn Half Life 2: The Orange Box took the title of best game this season away from Halo rather quickly. 

As for Sony vs Nintendo and the tech article. They speak more truths then other other two but still spin everything possible towards the current leader. Its the same thing thats going on in the Presidential coverage. Hilary gets 80% of all the attention for Democrats and Guliani gets 80% of all the attention for Republicans. The media always gives a negative spin to the least popular what the producers/editors of the news companies prefer. There is no such thing as balanced media from companies like Fox, CNN, ABC, etc. You have to get your news from sites like IGN and GamePolitics to have balanced views. 


MSNBC is actually pretty unbiased.  Politically anyway.  As for the news stations.  They arn't biased towards the Wii because it's winning.  They're biased towards the Wii because it's something new.  If the PS3 was winning now they really wouldn't be able to spin BS as eaisly cause it would just be another "It's a videogame system... it's selling well.  Look at how cool it looks." type story that might not make the cut other then as an afternote.  I mean their is Blu-ray but the High def wars don't even seem to break mainstream news coverage on TV other then a couple seconds when some giant theatre switches allegiance.  The reason being... most of the people who watch the news are too old to care about Videogames and HD stuff.  The rest are just people who think videogames cause people to kill their kids.  Do a story on a videgame system that's positive and people are gonna change the channel.

Nah, the Wii gets all the positve spin cause it has a good Q Score as far as TV news goes.   Throw some pictures in of some old people playing with their grandchildren developing a bond, some rehab work, all sorts of nice stuff like that.  That keeps people watching.  Even the insane people who think playing GTA makes people kill sit down and say "Oh isn't that nice!  A positive videogame system!"

Overall I think it'll be fairly irrelevent.  Maybe a few Mom's will say "Oh, i'm not buying my son a 400 dollar console that's failing!"  but I mean, Mom's have a hard enough time saying no to their kids the rest of the year, let alone saying no i X-mas.