How are Sony losing so much money on gaming?

[heruamon]

Icyedge said:

heruamon said:

@ Icyedge

There is no argument...since you haven't posted any links to answer the question asked, which was that the PS3 is profitable.  The CEO never made any such statement, so next please READ new sources, before you try to correct me. 

-       Howard Stringer is the CEO and Chairman of Sony, and he man who made those statements in your links is Nobuyuki Oneda, and he is the CFO. 

-       It’s interesting that Kaz Harai, who is the Head of the Networks Division, which Playstation falls under seems to think otherwise, and talked about how the Playstation ecosystem was breaking even, even if on the hardware side, it wasn’t there yet.  Of course, that was also his division posted a $654 billion loss.

-       Also, in May 2010, the before mentioned CFO said PS3 was still costing 10% more to produce, than its sales price…which at the time was $399.  3 months later, they had supposedly shaved this down for you to believe it cost them only $250 to make, which is entirely possible, I guess. http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/05/15/sony_ps3_profitability/

-       This site also has an article pointing outlining how Sony each Slim cost Sony $100 in losses, and they hope to lower the production cost thru volume.  Maybe that is why Sony placed such a huge order, but that doesn’t erase the fact of the cost as of now.  http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/08/20/ps3_losses/

So, once again, please show me a link where the CEO…errr…any Sony executive is saying that the PS3 is breaking even.  The console was cost Sony BEFORE the price, and that’s not going to change for a while.  The 360 will get another price cut next year, and Sony will have a choice of trying to get to breakeven or further financial losses to keep pace…somehow, I think M$ will be smiling either way.

Man whats your problem, seriously. Can you post the post where I say that it is profitable. I only reported the article saying about 70% less, and that it would be very unluckely to loose 50$-100$ per console and that MAYBE they are profitable now. Your arguing with me on something I never said.

 

Edit: And between your post are always negative and arguing with people when your on the sony forum. Is life really so hard?

My problem...lol...you NEED to go check yourself, and re-read your postings in this thread.  Man-in-the-mirror definitely needs to be a song you're listening to here, as you've been attacking several post, because they have posted facts that don't jive with your perception of what is/isn't, regardless of facts.  So, I think you need to do some serious self checking before talking about anybody else.