Kasz216 on 05 August 2013
| NYANKS said: Why are people ignoring PS4 R&D? I'm impressed they factored that in and still came out with profit, way better than PS3 costs. |
I imagine most people are confused because generally the PS4 is done... or so we think.
So generally people probably were expecting the R&D costs to be spread out earlier before it's announcment, or at the very least, spread out over the lifetime of the console. (Generally how R&D is treated, rather then just some lump some after the annoucement.)
Sony must have some strategy to dump it all in one quarter. Maybe in a quarter they expect to do bad in, just so the future quarters look better.
