S.T.A.G.E. said:
Stinky said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Stinky said:
It was the bluray which pushed the price so high. Sony may have won that format war, but it was a phyrric victory. |
Its amazing how much Sony has managed to sell despite the situation of putting Blu Ray in their console. Never has there been more respectable sales for third place for so much put into one console. Last gen in Nintendo and Microsoft could barely make it over 25 M. The gen before that because of Sony, Nintendo couldn't even sell 35 M consoles during the 64 era. Sony fucks up and is still able to sell 66 M consoles in a gen. Thats a testament to the fact that they are still doing something right despite all the financial decisions they made at the beginning of the gen. Sonys walking away with 80 M+ for the PS3. Win, lose or draw, that speaks volumes about what they deliver.
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At the end of it all, the only metric that really matters is profit and even if Sony does break 80M units on the PS3, I doubt they'll break even on the deal. So I'll stay with phyrric.
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Sony broke even two years ago on the PS3. Everything from now on is purely profit. Its the Vita and Move that are in the negative.
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Do you have a cite for that? As I understand it Sony stopped selling at a loss, but it will be a long way to recoup on the initial unit losses.
