PS3 Sales Expected to Rise Up To 30% YOY on Price Cut

[snakenobi]

kowenicki said:

snakenobi said:

drkohler said:

snakenobi said:
SONY will maintain 20% bump

and bigger bumps for the holiday

should easily compete with 360 in north america

KEN KUTARAGI ftw,bring him back for the PS4

she can rival Steve jobs in tech vision,and business view of kaz hirai,sony can come back

"She"? 

lol

Ken Kutaragi's horrible business decisions led to a $2b hole in the PS3 development cycle.

u have to take in what happened that time,u can just look at history and make ur own assumptions

PS3 was actually sheduled to launch in 2007 which was pushed forward because of competition from HD-DVD which would have went against blu-ray.

companies like SQUARE were developing FF XIII for PS2.u will find the screens.this is why FFXIII launched so late this gen

This changed the entire configurations of the system,original system design suggested two CELL.it would have changed the computer industry forever

also when it launched PS3 had shortages which led to slow startup of install base and by the time they got high production,the hype had gone down and so did the sales so devs backed out and people too.

Wii and 360 just didn't matter at that point in time so dodn't even argue there.PLAYSTATION brand was the biggest thing in gaming that time,as big as today's APPLE name.

SONY was also struggling with PSP piracy and devs backed out so even that changed the relationship with various devs.

GTA 4 exclusivity atm the time when rockstar promised 3 exclusives in return which never came as the gen went by,the brand's name decreased andsales affected.

He was talking about his business acumen.. 

Interesting fact. Ken  presided over a playstation division that launched a product (the PS3) that completely wiped out ALL profits made from PS1 and PS2. In other words they hadn't banked a single dollar in profit over the course of the existance of playstation when he left... thats incredible given their success.  So yeah, great businessman.

yeah but he was not the main reasoning for $2b hole,blu-ray was and SONY as a company was behind it so he could not do anything.

how did it completely wiped out all profit and why do you subject PS3 losses to the PS division as they are going to be paid by the BLU-RAY division of the company

you don't know what profits PS made,where they went and what they are making right now.how they are gonna be made

PS has made ton more money than showed,its just that SONY keeps reinvesting a whole ton of it.it isn't like a business which earn money that just gets eaten up by investors as that would be fatal to the company in the long term.

if you look at the finances starting PS3 launch,SONY lost around $7billion(this is the max limit,it is lower but i am giving some space).Out of this around 5 billion has been recouped by PS2,PSP,PS3 software sales and hardware.but alot of it has also been reinvested constanly in to R&D

you won't see the $7b mark as sony financial charts immediately cut it as profit reduces loss.

SONY is left with around 2.5billion loss.Which is further reduced by BLU-RAY sales.

this is the reason SONY combined all the division as it was no longer a separate division company as it was helping the other divsions of the comapny.

 

in the long term from 2006 launch which is now short term,SONY is easily profiting and future is safe.