| TheJimbo1234 said: The PS3 has been succesful in sales...but grom the looks of how shoddy Sony is, sales success =/= profit....even though it really should. For exmaple, how the hell did Sony lose $2 B in 07? What the hell were they doing when every bit of R&D was split between other companies (IBM for the APU etc)? I am amazed they have bothered to make a new console and would be very intrested to see how they will turn a profit on this, or if consoles have now become dead due to dev costs being too high. That being said, and I think Micro & Nintendo need to take note of this http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/07/sony-financials-game-profits-down-86-4-in-q3/ , all the money is made in games, not hardware. A 15% drop in games = 86% drop in profit? How much does it cost then to make these consoles and what loss are you working at? No wonder no small companies try to get involved with consoles - it's retarded. |
Nintendo make money from hardware and software. The issue was last generation both Sony and Microsoft priced the hardware at a loss to drive sales, unfortunately for Sony they really did get the price ridiculously wrong at the start. It looks from the current reported spec of the PS4 and rumours of the nextbox specs that both companies are being more reserved in their hardware costs for the coming generation.
