| Immortal said: Thanks a lot for explaining, :D. By the way, would you happen to know how much Wii would cancel out PS360 losses for the generation? Oh, and how come PS2 earned less than PS1? That's kinda surprising considering its huge base, software and long legs. Was it really sold at such a loss early on? |
Well as I said, the PS1 figure probably doesn't include the R&D going into making the console in the first place... although for the PS1 I don't suspect it to be enormous as some of the costs will have been paid by Nintendo for a start (given that the PS1 started out life as an add-on for the SNES)
Also the media Sony has put into their 3 home consoles has been in 3 different states of penetration.... when the PS1 came out with it's CD drive, CDs were already an enormous market and were already cheap to make etc (so many magazines gave out PS1 demo discs as free gifts for example... nowadays you are lucky to get a free gift with a mag at all)
The DVD was already released and starting to gain mass-market appeal when the PS2 came out (and the PS2 helped it to gain mass-market appeal quicker, so early PS2s will have cost quite a bit to make with relatively expensive DVD drives... (though nothing to blu-ray drives for early PS3)
Blu-Ray however hadn't been out long when the PS3 came out.
Also don't forget the PS1 also had a huge base, software and hardware legs.
