At what level does the Vita become a success?

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DucksUnlimited said:

benao87 said:

DucksUnlimited said:

Those things aren't mutually exclusive though. They could have created the Vita AND been involved in other ventures if they so wished. The entire point of oppertunity cost is that you only have a set amount of resources, which is not the case in this scenario. 

 

The childish insults are uneccessary and aren't doing your argument any favors.

I'm afraid that you do not understand the concept of opportunity cost. They are surely getting indirect benefits from the PSV venture, however that's not the point.

I apologize if you found the last part as an insult, it was merely to illustrate that you are ignoring a lot of important stuff. Look, I'm not here to prove you wrong, as this is supposed to be a subjective matter. For all that I care, Sony themselves have known that PSV won't turn profit, and they are just trying to pump some studios to make better relationships for the PS4, I don't know, and frankly I don't care. But if you are taking profit as a measure for success you will need to take a lot of stuff into consideration, and $1 is not a success.

Bolded: Care to illistrate how, rather than just making a baseless claim? The definition is "the loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen." But the other "alternatives" you listed are not alternatives to the Vita, as they could have easily been implemented in conjunction with it. Sony won't have lost anything with the Vita if it turns a profit because Sony didn't invest into it in place of something else.

I like that you state that this is a subjective matter, then immediately follow that by making the objective claim that a $1 profit is not a success. In fact, the notion that you even started trying to persuade me otherwise on what you yourself consider a matter of opinion is very funny.

No, the fact that a one dollar profit is not a success is 100% fact.  If Sony invested that money into ANY interest bearing account, or investing in government bonds or something, they'd make significantly more money.  That means they could make more than a dollar by DOING NOTHING.  So, by investing money, time and resources into the Vita, they make less than they could have made by doing nothing.

There was another option they had besides the Vita (investing money in an interest bearing account) that made more out of the money than the Vita.  Therefore, it was a bad investment and unsuccessful.  And putting the money in a bank (or the corporate equivalent of that) isn't the only thing they could have done.  Unless Sony is the world's most efficient company (they aren't) there are bound to be projects that were not funded because of the Vita.  I don't know where you got the idea that Sony has enough money to do everything they want to do, but they don't.  No company does.