Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft - 1981 to 2011 gaming division profits chart

[mjk45]

thx1139 said:

mjk45 said:
What people forget with Sony is the flow on and synergy they got with the playstation in regards to other divisions , like helping bring dvd and bluray to market and underpinning the cost of R&D for the cell ,even though that was envisioned to be a cpu for use in a wide range of electronic appliances and white goods , so really it has done more than it's share of the heavy lifting ,one reason it is seen as the easiest way to introduce this tech to the public from a Sony point of view and that benefits the companies strategy , unfortunately it stops the Playstation brand from making the amount of profit it should .

PS2 had nothing to do with DVD coming to market.  DVD players were available for under $200 when PS2 launched.  DVD players launched nearly 3 years before PS2 launched.  Now BluRay is of course a big part of the PS3 story, but will never be as big as DVD and wont have as long a mainstream life.

Yes my mistake i should have uncoupled dvd from bluray in the bringing to market sense , rather dvd was put into the PS2 to add capacity and allow it to be a cheap dvd player , i remember it getting reviewed as a standalone player a lot when launched and quite favourably from a price point so even though it was not bringing it to market first up , it was used to help grow the market so my point about Sony looking at the PS from a how to maximise it's value to help enhance the other divisions stands and even though bluray success wasn't the point of the discussion , I think it will end up being a big fish in a  very small pond.