gurglesletch said:
Kasz216 said:
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.
|
Strange since when i bought mine in 08 there was about 400,000 consoles sold that week.
|
In the week the story was reported... the PS3 sold 110,000. Which was last place... by quite a bit
