Is Microsoft bleeding Sony on purpose?

[couchmonkey]

FishyJoe said:

NJ5 said:

Andir said:
Nobody knows for sure. Sony could be making a profit on every console now. There's is really only one company that can give you that information. Sony.

Well, they did say they hope to be profitable in terms of hardware, in the next fiscal year. That was in their latest financial report conference, where it would be pretty damning if they lied.

 

Not only damning, but criminal.

And why would you imply that your system is not making a profit if it actually was?

Yes, Microsoft is doing this on purpose.  Businesses certainly don't work by accident - not to say that happy accidents don't happen, but there was a clear strategy this Christmas: Sony had lost nearly all of it's big holiday games (GTA 4, Final Fantasy and Metal Gear) and Microsoft still had Halo 3, Mass Effect and more...so Microsoft didn't do a huge price cut, just enough to force Sony to follow, and it let the games do the rest.