RolStoppable said:
No, it wasn't. There was also the GBA and of course, the PS2 had a much longer shelf life than the Gamecube, so it generated notably more profit in its lifetime than the GC. Furthermore, the PSP was sold at a hefty loss initially to buy Sony market share and take over the portable market. Sony barely made a profit in the PSP's first year on the market (2005). By the way, the graph shows the financial results up until December 31, 2010. So FY06 is showing the the PSP's early life, FY05 only includes the Japanese launch. The PS2 made a lot of profit (not as much as the Wii though), but Sony's financial results were dragged down a lot by the PSP and especially the PS3. @amp316: That won't be the case anymore. FY12 was also in the black, but FY13 (which ends on March 31, 2012) is already guaranteed to go in the red, for the first time since Nintendo started making video games. The worrisome thing about the graph is that Sony and Microsoft kept improving (although Sony has been doing worse again lately with the strong yen) while Nintendo went down rapidly, because they gave up on the Wii. And looking at the graph it becomes even more obvious how idiotic that decision was. Of course, Nintendo suffers from the strong yen just like Sony, but going from $4 billion in profits to several hundred millions in the red within three years is a major collapse. |
now it all makes sense with the handhelds factored into those columns. If they were not that would be jsut insanse and make you wonder were sony were loosing on PS2.
