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Seece on 11 February 2011
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disolitude said:
austin2359 said:

Which console has lost the most money for the company?

How many people think PS3 or 360 can eventually profit?

 

I am not sure if 360 is still in the red, but I do not know where to find this stuff out.


There is no way to determine this accurately.

Sony managed to run billions of dollars in the red with the PS3 despite having a profitable PS2 and PSP business.

The Playstation division lost something like 2 billion in 2007 and 1 billion in 2008. Ps2 and PSP would have to be profitable in 2007 and 2008 so only god knows howmuch PS3 lost on top of that to get them a 3 billion dollar loss in 2 years. My guess that specific PS3 loss was actually somewhere around 6-7 billion from 2006 to 2009, during which PSP and PS2 profitable sales softened the blow.

Xbox 1 as well is a sad story. They lost money and that hardware from day 1 to the last console made.

360 is not too bad, if it didn't have RRoD, it would be actually quite a profitable console.

I don't think anything else in the EDD has been a massive success up until now (WP7) other than 360. So it's likely the 360 is verging on being a profitable venture. This time next year it'll be well in the black.