Were PS360 too powerful upon release?

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zorg1000 said:

mrstickball said:

zorg1000 said:

Seece said:
Took 360 less than 2 years to become profitable (or the EDD at least). Perhaps PS3 was tho, given it's made a huge loss that it won't recover.

What is EDD?

Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division. The part of the company that sells and reports profit/loss for the 360. By Q4 2007, it turned a $100 million+ profit that quarter. Since then, its been profitable every quarter, other than the one where they wrote down $1 billion USD due to RROD.

Ok thanks and do u happen to know if 360 has lost or gained money in the long run? Im pretty sure PS3 while selling at a profit for the last few years stil hasnt made up for its initial losses.

Given the EDD houses other projects it's impossible to know, but from what we do know, it's likely it's made a good profit. Since mid 2005 (so 6 months before 360, which would include some R&D and manufacturing plus Original Xbox losses) the division has made around $700 million profit ($3.3b losses in first 2 years of its life, $4bill profit over the last 6 FY's.)

As for Sony's Gaming division, it's lost $5bill plus with PSP and PS2 profits, and has only recently started profiting.