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S.T.A.G.E. on 02 July 2013
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Hynad said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
slowmo said:

Perhaps because one company makes billions in profit every quarter where as the other is selling assets and cost cutting to try and scrape profitability.  Microsoft will always have the ability to loss lead on hardware by a huge margin if they ever wanted to. 


MS will always have the ability to losslead, but compared to Sony losses to make their platforms succeed there is a clear distinction. The PS4 will make small profit in the beginning and it will grow over time. They will be able to cut price fairly soon.

Sony's Playstation division has always turned a profit when all was said and done. Yeah PS3 was an expensive endeavor for them, but at the end of the day, they broke even and turned a profit. The PS4 doesn't even compares to the PS3 when it comes to R&D and cost manufacturing costs. And now that online gaming is behind a pay wall, I can't see the PS4 struggling to profit. 


Definitely. Seeing how much my friend loves his Blu Ray player with his new 50 inch TV, seems well worth it to me he's actually almost replaced his favorite titles from his old DVD collection. He was so happy with it he finally broke down and bought a PS3 and gave the other Blu Ray to his wife.  Sony is still profiting off of the PS3 and will continue to. The majority of gamers have no brand loyalty and I have been saying this for years. Its an ongoing cycle and these guys act like MS just magically got 70 million gamers because of Xbox Live Gold alone. Nintendo had the upper hand on Sega because of third parties, Sony MS split their former marketshare. We'll see how they will react this gen. Always intelligence coming from you.