saicho on 30 September 2012
| CCFanboy said: Can I ask where these stories about burning through all their ps2 profits came from? I do remember reading an article last year saying after the price drop here in europe they were making losses on the system again. If what people are saying is true that doesn't sound successful to me. Sales figures might be high but if they really are losing all this money then it sounds more like its a failure. |
From GAF:
Annual Operating Income (billions of yen)
Code:
Year Sony Nintendo
1995 -9 72
1996 57 65
1997 117 128
1998 137 156
1999 77 145
2000 -51 85
2001 83 119
2002 113 100
2003 68 108
2004 43 112
2005 9 90
2006 -232 226
2007 -125 487
2008 -58 555
2009 -57 357
2010 47 171
2011 29 -37
PS2 was released in 2000. If you add everything from 2000 to 2011, it's -131. Also, all profit made from PS2 between 2006-2009 (and any from PSP) is gone too.
MikeB predicts that the PS3 will sell about 140 million units by the end of 2016 and triple the amount of 360s in the long run.
