How much is sony making off the ps3 now

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Xbbjf9s said:

nightsurge said:

Xbbjf9s said:

Kynes said:

Kynes said:
What we can be sure is that IF Sony is earning more money than the sum of all their manufacturing and transport costs, it isn't the necessary amount to recover the personnel, marketing and research expenses. PS2 and PSP earn a healthy amount, Sony earns a considerable profit from PS3 first party and third party games and accessories, but they still bleed a considerable amount. The numbers don't add, so it's false that they are making money in the PS3 hardware, or they have some serious management problem.

I'll quote myself. Please someone explain me how, if PS2 earns a lot of money, PSP some money, PS3 games a lot in royalties, PS3 hardware a bit of money, how the Playstation brand bleeds so much money?

You know I never thought about that, someone answer this.

A major portion of it has to be PSN.  Other than that I'm not sure what could be causing the large negative numbers.

Which would be why the are offering premium services? They also have merged labtops and other gadgets with the ps brand in one division, could it be the ps brand is fine but taking the hit for crappier sony products?

Im pretty sure their laptops division did incredibly well this past fiscal year so it likely isn't that.  The premium services are probably a big part of them trying to be profitable on PSN.  So far they have said they still have not made any profit with it so it has to account for at least some of the loss.  Not sure how much but I'd be willing to bet it's a pretty sizable amount.