Sony Q3 FY2012 - $124m loss, PS3+PS2 6.8m, PSV+PSP 2.7m

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Booh! said:

ethomaz said:

GAF is now discussing the theories about PS3 lifetime sales...

1) 74.9-75.4m (~15% of shipment is PS2)
2) over 76m (less than 10% of shipment is PS2)

Which do you think will win?

I think it's nearer to 76m than to 75m. Sony already stopped the production of PS2, so they think that the current stock will last till the launch of PS4, that means that worldwide shipments are really really low (probably they project to ship 0.2-0.3m this year).

There's little incentive to buy a PS2 these days, expecially in developing countries where older titles from the golden age of PS2 are unavailable and newer titles are no more developed (with perhaps India as the only exception, since it has a small game industry).

Example given:

in 2012 the only new games were FIFA, Major League Baseball 2k13 (only available in NA) and PES 2013 (which was not released in Japan)

2011 was the last year for WWE, Madden NFL, NBA 2k, MLB the Show

2010 was the last year for NCAA Football, PGA Tour

They stopped production in January......so this quarter isn't relevant. Also it was just Japan that production stopped I believe. 3rd world countries have much incentive to buy one....namely its affordable.