| Nintentacle said: Whenever I see articles about how the Wii U is doomed, lots of the writers talk about Sony like they never loose money and are perfect. It's like they're completely ignoring how much money the PS3 lost. Does anyone here know why people do this? |
In what way are you referring? Everyone knows ps3 lost money, but sometimes people cross the line saying "it erased all profit from ps1/2", or "sony won't release another console because they are in financial ruin". Sometimes people write things like that and it starts an argument because the people saying it completely believe it, but the reality is completely different.
If you'd like I can post a dozen threads saying that ps4 would never come out, and how it was a marketing trick or some such nonsense, because Sony couldn't actually afford to come out with a new console. We easily see now in retrospect that those ideas were just wishful thinking, but people continue to think that Sony will back out of the gaming business even though it's probathe top 3 revenue streams. It just simply makes no sense to think that playstation doesn't do well. Despite losing around 5b on ps3, they ushered in Bluray, which they own 30% stake of, helped sell tvs, and helped to usher in HD faster than normal. Sure they probably still lost 4b even with this added revenue streams, but now BRs are extremely cheap to make now that they've produced 80 million of them, a rival company is paying them to use it, and it's secured BR as a top media device for the next gen. These are all very important things to think about and just looking at this current "next-gen" it's put them in a very advantageous footing. Wouldn't you say?
