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

[NJ5]

rukusa said:

NJ5 said:

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.

 

(1) Are you friggin kidding me? Yeah, seems like it. The PS3 has had 2 price drops thus far, while the 360 has had more than 2 through out the 2 years its been on the market. Get your facts straight, man. Its embaressing. In b4 you say "yeah but 2 price cuts through its first year, thats not good!" :P

(2) Bold assumption, nothing solid, so there goes that theory though. Aside from this since that topic has already been addressed by some large game developers, stating that next gen game developement in general lies around 20+ million or so. I dont see it be any different for the Sony's part. Maybe they look they're expensive to you since they are quite graphically advanced ;).

(3) Err, alright.... ain't doing me a favour though lol.

(4) Suddenly there's no such thing as DLC or Downloadable games on PSN. Yeah, tha-... oh wait ;)

 

The way I see it, they're not different. This business as it stands now, is a competition. They're definitely the most alike in this field. Its really naive to put them into a proces where they have to get the same stand on each point to believe that one or another won't catch onto the other. Both of them take use of different strategies which they consider to be efficent and effective. So the possibility for profit, for both is existent.

1) No, are YOU friggin kidding me!? The 360 has had a single price cut of $50 / 50 €, while the PS3 has had several price cuts (depending on the region) for a combined $200 / 200 €. As you said, "get your facts straight".

2) Read what I wrote, it's not just about development cost.

4) I said "subscription fees". Again, read what you're replying to, especially when you're so eager to demolish others' arguments.