Do you think Sony will ever make a net profit from the PS3?

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rukusa said:

CrashMan said:

(1) Oops, whole = hole >_<

(2) My point is that the XBox 360 has yet to make a net profit. So there is no guarentee that it even will, so I fail to see a correlation between the 360 and the PS3 being profitable.

Well some people believe it is gaining profit. And I can respect that so I see the same outcome for the PS3. Essentially I think it will go in the footsteps of the 360 in terms of profit. If they couldn't see a forecast of profit on either console then I doubt neither would be in production right now.

I don't see the PS3 necessarily having the same history as the 360 in terms of net profit, for several reasons:

1- The PS3 has had many more price cuts than the 360. The PS3 is the more expensive machine by far, yet it's being sold at almost the same price as the 360.

2- PS3's first party games have been extremely expensive to develop, yet some sell miserably to the point of being flops. This doesn't happen for the 360.

3- The 360 has had the RROD problem (partly cancels out the factors above, but it should be pointed out in this comparison for fairness).

4- Xbox Live subscription fees. There's no corresponding revenue source for Sony.

If you look at these factors alone, you can see that you're comparing two totally different situations.