Factor in financial performance when talking about weekly sales?

[Majin-Tenshinhan]

WilliamWatts said:

Majin-Tenshinhan said:

Financial performance is touched upon all the time. Notice how every time PS3 sells well someone will come along and go "Yeah, but it's still selling at a loss" which is a fair point.

But why mix the two together by force? Sales are sales and profit is profit. Sony wouldn't sell so many PS3s if they didn't think it would net them profit in the long run. Everybody knows they've been selling it at a loss. It's not news.

Didn't GM prove that it doesn't matter if you're number 1 in sales if you don't make a dime in the process? Sales are like cars and profit is like carseats. Its pointless having a car without a seat and your carseat doesn't go anywhere without a car.

What's GM?

And you need to listen to what I'm saying. They are two different things. Using your analogy, you don't go to someone who's talking about carseats and go "YEAH, WELL, THE CAR SUCKS SO IT DOESN'T MATTER!". Personally, I think it's ridiculous that Sony made such an expensive piece of hardware to begin with and practically pissed away all the money they had earned, but I'm not a businessman. They're still afloat, and despite all the doomsaying they have not gone bankrupt. They never would have done it if they didn't think it would bring them profit in the long run.

It's like, if I go "Hey, Super Smash Bros. Melee sold great" and you go "YEAH BUT THE GAMECUBE DIDN'T SUCK ON THAT", they're two different things that are directly related. Sales are sales, profits are profits. Don't try to force people to merge them. Everyone knows Nintendo makes loads of money and Sony loses loads. It doesn't matter.