Sony Strategy Thread: Third Party Sony (PS NOW)

[joeorc]

theprof00 said:

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.

 

what we do not know is Sony's

 

business plan!

we can guess , but when you launch a system with a guess cost of component's over $800.00+ per unit , there is no way any company would be expecting a quick turn around , Unless Sony does indeed have a 10 year plan.

10 million system's sold world wide a year/ year= 100 million sold system's

the PS1 DID IT

THE PS 2 DID IT

THE PS3 IS NOT EVEN A YEAR OLD IN THE MARKET IN SOME AREA'S OF THE WORLD,  and still not even 3 year's old in UK so

the fact that already the PS3 has sold over 25+million world wide.