Tomorrow is Sony's turn of revealing financial results

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NJ5 said:

zackblue said:

NJ5 said:

rukusa said:
NJ5 is rubbing his hands in joy just knowing there will be a loss on the Sony side.

Anyway my shot will go somewhere between 300 mill and 800 mill.

Well this is kind of offtopic, but IMO they should lose money until they have learned their lesson, as Microsoft already did. I don't like them as a company either in the late few years (as I used to), which quite frankly doesn't help.

 

I'd like to know what lesson that is?

Several in one, actually:

- Respecting your customers

- Taking price into account when designing your console

- Helping developers help you (part of which is making good development tools, and other things which reduce development cost)

- Not changing their minds all the time regarding important things

- Probably other stuff I don't feel like remembering now

When you look at SCE's financials, it's obvious that they horribly misplanned this generation of consoles. It's something that can happen to any company, the problem here is that the loss-leading model (i.e. selling consoles at a loss) multiplies the damage from any mistake. I don't know how long the industry can support such a business model.

 

 But it won them a format war.  From their perspective, I don't they're all that bad off...