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Sm4ckd0wn on 22 January 2008
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krik said:
crumas2 said:
krik said:
 

Sure PS3 will lose money, they already do. I think Sony wants to kill HDDVD and make money from Blu-Ray. The HD media is worth a few billion in revenue for Sony.

They actually can make for the losses with both PS3 games and Blu-ray movies. MS on the other hand needs to make it up from games only (or maybe they can actually make that download movies thing turn a profit).

 


You may have a point about Sony being willing to lose big on PS3 hardware to make money on Blu-ray: they've already shown themselves willing to canabalize the PS3 as a game machine to win the Blu-ray war.

 

As far as MS needing to make a profit from the games division... not too likely... they're filthy rich from their other divisions.

 


Microsoft's money pile is going down and they are a very profit oriented corporation. Their share holders want to make sure the company has a future beyond Windows since their market share is dropping. MS needs to show profit on other divisions.

Also I totally disagree with you regarding Sony cannibalizing the PS3 as a games machine. Look at my game collection (signature) and look at PS3's line up for this year (LBP, MGS4, KZ2, GTA4, GT5, InFamous, etc). Sony is actually pushing the PS3 in all fronts. They do that because they can. They actually have a good piece of hardware that is much more useful than the 360. MS would be doing the same if the X360 had those abilities.

I love my PS3, just got a second one exclusively for my Linux/PS3 CELL coding (tired of sharing with my son). You should get one crumas, you will then realize you have the lots of misconceptions about the PS3. PS3 is an awesome console, the best console I ever had.

 

I think someone has been following the Mac commercials way too closely.