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Kasz216 on 12 February 2010
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gurglesletch said:
Kasz216 said:
gurglesletch said:
stof said:
gurglesletch said:

Obviously your point is flawed because Sony hasn't made a profit off of the PS3 hardware in NA ever but they still sold to the air force for a loss.

If I hadn't said any of the bolded parts, I'd agree with you.

Halfway into the year they had only sold 2.6 million xboxs. They could have easily ramped up production for the army while reducing costs due to increased production.

So you're saying the smarter business decision would have been to spend even more money on producing loss selling consoles to sell to a client that would never give you software returns?  I think we can all agree that Microsoft's strategy was to use their one year head start to establish a themselves a large userbase to combat the PS3 with. How exactly would selling a large portion of their consoles to the military instead of gamers have done that?

And by that point hadn't they just managed to reach demand? I remember there being a shortage issue during the first year. 

Worked for Sony.

Sony had consoles to give away... nobody wanted the damn things back then.

So in 06 Sony could just give them away? I remember some serious supply issues since they had to delay Europe's launch and didn't have enough in NA to sell.

Uh, except the Airforce didn't buy them in 06.

They bought them in 08.

Early 08... when they had craploads to spare.