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DietSoap on 22 May 2013
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kowenicki said:
DietSoap said:
kowenicki said:
DietSoap said:

If Microsoft can afford a $100 drop to $99, I can't imagine the PS3 can't afford a $100 drop to $150.

What they can't do is match a $99 price tag, but they've never attempted to match the 360 price, always just a little over.

It just seems strange for both of them, though. They're still selling gangbusters at practically pure profit. After this drop, they wouldn't be making much I dont' think.

WHAT!?

lol

where have you been for the last 5 years?

Your final sentence answers your first sentence.  Who needs their console to profit most?  and who has a paid for online service?


I don't know, you tell me. The 360 has paid off it's own debt unlike the PS3, but is now working on paying off the 2.4 billion accrued from the first Xbox. Do you know specific numbers for both? I bet they're both around a billion total debt for division overall.

Good chart btw, consider that 2001 and 2002 had even bigger losses to 2003.

http://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-xbox-division-has-lost-nearly-3-billion-in-10-years


Losses and profits are one year only events, I know that doesnt suit gaming fans and their accumulating losses and profits arguments... but its a simple fact.

In that case, the PS3 has been profitable since, what, 2010 was it?

That's a dumb way of looking at it. Investors aren't going to be all that happy over these profitable years when these divisions have lost 3 billion and 5 billion respectively more than they've ever taken in... Or at least for the last decade, I suppose considering 2001 and 2002, Xbox division would be even more than 3 billion.

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