How are Sony losing so much money on gaming?

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Icyedge said:

8888brocoli123 said:
Sony is losing way more than $50 per ps3 sold. With the recent price cut, Im sure that the losses are a little more than $100 per ps3. Just look at the latest financial report (Q2 2009 I think), the ps3 division ( including other products) loss more than 600 million dollars. Nobody now if their first party games did recover the production cost, Uncharted could have sold 2 millions copies, but we dont know if the game was profitable.

According to a lot of articles (just google PS3 cost), they almost loose nothing right now at 299$.

And according to other articles, including the one mentioned earlier in the thread, Sony is losing 100$ just on manufacturing for the Slim. Based on Sony's previous reports I'd say they are probably losing something - maybe in the range of 50$ to 100$ per manufacture. Add in shipping and who knows?