Metsadah said:
Your the one who is laughable. You dont understand economics do you. The current problems Sony has is indeed mismanagement. That the yen is not working for them is something they should have taken in account. Losing 6 billion on one console is not very good management, its very hard to make that much back. And believe it or not, the ps3 was made to be a big cashcow for sony and that alone. The first xbox also caused big losses (not as big as the ps3 though), but at least it had its strategy behind it and it was up against the mighty Playstation 2 and the less mighty gamecube. They just wanted to penetrate the market. The ps3 is finally selling ok, and thats cool if your a ps3 lover. But if you look at the big picture the ps3 is a failure, they went from owning the whole gaming market and making big profits to third place and big losses.
It doesnt matter if Sony made money before currency meltdowns, what matters is now. Besides, the ps3 was already accountable for 2/3 billion in losses before the markets went crazy. |
Like you said MS made it clear that they knew that entering the video games industry was going to cost them. However, they also believed they would reach profitability in 2008 (Their games divison actually became profitable in 07 due to Halo 3).
In a sense Ken Kutaragi became a bit arrogant if not even overzealous with the PS3. I doubt he planned for the 360, or especially the Wii to end up taking the lead over the PS3.
Of course Sony got their priorities straight as of late but their actions have already eaten up into the profits that the PS2 should have brought in by now.
