"How do you think that Sony funded the pricedrop/new Sku then? Just focus on the topic of this thread."
They removed BC, some ports, had the 65nm cell. I doubt that they loose more money now than at the beginning. If you use 3 billion dollars you could give away 6 million 500$ PS3s for free. (3*10^9 / 500 = 0.6 * 10^7 = 6 million) We only have 8million PS3 till years end so I don't think that they needed that much money to fund the pricedrop.
Lets see some people said they lost 250$ on each machine, I doubt that this is still the case:
that would mean for 8 million PS3s sold they would loose 2 billion dollars. That's less than twice what MS had to pay for RRoD costs this year alone. And its less than what their other company parts (TVs, cameras...) made. Besides they sell millions(at the moment >1.5m) of PS3 games each week worldwide that should mitigate some of the losses.
Yes their gaming business is still loosing money but sony is bigger than Microsoft and it increased overall profit this year. They are hardly broke.
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