theprof00 on 27 November 2009
| NJ5 said: What exactly is your point? My point is that you're wrong in calling everything that happened with the PS3 a necessary sacrifice that Sony did on purpose. |
Really? Because I thought your point was
| NJ5 said: @theprof00: When you call it a sacrifice, you make it look like Sony was planning to lose these billions even after 4 years of launching the PS3. |
But when they launched it, did they expect to drop prices so fast that even after all these years, they're still unprofitable both on hardware and overall? No. I don't believe that. I hope you don't either, and that this argument is all based on a mutual misunderstanding.
So, you're saying they didn't expect to drop the price so quickly? I'm pretty sure that, as of the slim, they are now overall profitable (SWprofits-HWcost)
I think they didn't plan for the economy to be in this bad of a shape, specifically the exchange rate's influence which consistently chomps 20-30% worth of profit. In that case, yes, they didn't plan to be in this bad of shape. But then again, not many did.
Overall I think they expected to lose maybe 4-5B on playstation, which would be recouped later.
