BigBoobieHead said:
unknown_soul89 said:
BigBoobieHead said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Jay520 said:
Almighty Sony? uh... okay
So know you're talking about profits. I don't know the specifics of the cost of the PS3 and how much SONY loses on each PS3, so I won't get into that. Either way, PS3 is on its way on selling a lot IMO (although that would be bad for SONY since they're losing money).
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Well Sony has lost about 5 billion since the launch of the PS3. And that's PS2 and PSP profits included. God knows how much they really lost on the PS3 a lone. That's an unbelievable failure for a company that dominated the last two generations.
I do believe the PS3 is making a small profit for each unit sold now. But they'll never make much money on the PS3 units because of competition. All they can hope for is MS to keep console prices the same so they don't have retaliate with another price cut. The 360 has been making money for years, sales are great, so there is no need for them to cut prices unless Sony does.
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PS3 is a company failure for the simple reason that it hasn't matches sales expectations.
To be fair though, to get the best picture of the PS3's implications we'll actually have to wait 20 years down the line.
Short term, no doubt PS3 has failed.
But if I were to say that long term, Sony's thinking changed dramatically and enabled them success in the future generations, and that Sony made lots of profit off Blu-Ray, I think the PS3 would be seen in a better light.
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Um you do realize that nothing reaches sales expectations in this industry almost, because the sales expectations are unreasonable, EA expected Mirror's Edge to get 3 millions sales quickly (it eventually sold over 2 million and made a good profit especially since it was a relatively low budget project) MS expects to get half a million preorders for kinect so yea, not meeting sales expectations doesn't mean anything if those expectations are unreasonable/not based on facts
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True, many aims are too high, but surely Sony were expected a lot more PS3 sales?
No proof, just a thought.
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and their expectations were unreasonable, they expected it to sell like the ps2 did without doing anything, frankly I'm glad they fell on their faces with the launch exclusives and little 3rd party support made them start making great games again
