How much money Sony really lost with the PS3

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Scisca said:

sales2099 said:

Scisca said:

bananaking21 said:
also PS3 was one of the main reasons why blueray won the format war, this doesnt calculate the money sony is making off of blueray disks

This!

PS3 did a huge thing - it established Blu-ray as a new standard medium. Now every single BD player and every single BD disc sold earns Sony money. This money isn't attributed to the Gaming Division, but Sony would have never earned it without the PS3 and has the costs of establishing BD format put into this division. Without the data on the profits coming from BD we can't judge what the PS3 really did.

Sony never earned a cent of profit in the last 4 years.

So wherever this Bluray money is coming from.....it didn't offset the losses. Just saying.

Yeah... So what's your point here? Sony never earned a profit these years cause it lost sick cash on TVs, but it doesn't have anything to do with what we're talking about. We don't know how much it earned on BD, but we know that the reason PS3 has struggled so much and posted these losses was in a huge part caused by Sony pushing BD as the new standard. Now calculating the PS3 profits ignoring all the money that BD brought is just unfair and pointless.

well to be fair there is no division at sony that was greatly pushed by BluRay royalties, because no division at Sony performed particularly well, except the financial services one. Sony does a good job selling life insurances, but I doubt this was pushed by BluRay.