snakenobi said:
sony would have lost alot but software number would have been off the hook don't forget,PS2 sold 1.6billion copies of software if sony got anywhere near that then they would have totally earned everything back
every PS3 game today pays $10 to sony in royalty sony earns $35 on first party games
plus the success would have turned blu-ray into a monster and royalties would have made sony very happy
the reason why this couldn't possible was sony's overconfidence on its brand name.it was $399 strong,just not $499 strong few launch games plus early shortages which didn't build a base and then devs backed off |
i meant to type tens of billions. (though it may have been close to 100 billion with a lot of rounding). at $400 they would have lost nearly $500 per console sold, and at that price they would be flying off the shelves, and be selling better than the wii was. thus cripling them financially. say they sold 30 million at that price (they wouldnt have been able to drop it for many many years, like 2009-2010. that would be 15 billion, likely they would have sold double that.
