Pachter says PS4 will sell at a small profit for Sony, GTTV

[mike_intellivision]

ethomaz said:

mike_intellivision said:
These breakdown costs are looking at parts and their manufacturing.

They typically don't include the R&D costs. Adding that into the equation can turn a profit to a loss.

Mike from Morgantown

But R&D cost are not part of a profit/loss of each console unit... it is part of profit/loss of the Game division... two different things here.

PS4 profit per unit = help division
PS4 loss per unit = didn't help the division

I can have profit per PS4 and loss in division or loss in PS4 and profit in division.

Anyway... make profit in each PS4 division is the best world even if the Division have loss due R&D and other things.

True. But eventually the profits of the product have to make up for the losses of the division.

That was the point that I was trying to make. (And to remind people of what was not included in Patcher's analysis).