Sony slashes full-year profit forecast by 40%

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MikeRox said:

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GamechaserBE said:
They should discontinue the Vita, it is draining their gaming devision. Without it they would have made a profit in gaming division and that would have mean more games for PS3/PS4... Yeah the Vita is a mistake...

totally agree with this +10

Look at the vita tie ratio, add digital sales, and tell me again that is a mistake.

You really trying to argue that the Vita wasn't a mistake?

Depends on your definition of mistake. If by mistake you mean finest portable console made to date, then yeah it was.

They're not losing money on it and it's establishing a very reliable game hungry userbase so from a business perspective it's fine.

Anyone thinking the Vita was a mistake most certainly isn't a gamer.

I'd say many folks thought that the Vita would take over the handheld market from Nintendo. In reality, not even Sony was expecting more than a third of the market, as has been the case before in the psp vs Nintendo case. Nobody at Sony is thinking about shutting down the Vita. If software keeps coming, more and more revenue can be generated by the slowly, but steadily growing Vita user base.