4k1x3r said:
No. @Kynes thanks for reminding me that but my studies are all about Business so I'm not clueless about that. At least I think... When Sony says PS3 costs XXX$ to produce it's an average price that counts packaging, electricity, shipments etc things in it, so when they say they don't lose money, they really don't lose money... The only thing left bleeding the company is the PSN and maybe the video games division, which if I remember is often in red. (I dunno, their games sell well but... something is eating the money there). |
Then explain to me how they can, with all the first party games they sell, all the reneuve from third party sales, breaking even (if they really are doing so, something that I don't believe) with the PS3, earning lots of money with PS2 and PSP hardware... still be in red if you aggregate the last three quarters (last quarter we have data they were ~55 million dollars in black, taking into consideration that Vaio had the back to school period, where they sell tons of notebooks, it seems that PS division still bleed money), and almost 5 billion dollars lost since FY 2007.
The most plausible explanation is that they are talking about breaking even only considering the hardware, not the operation cost.
