Using Sony's Playbook, Microsoft Will Attempt Xbox One's Turnaround

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Capulous said:

mornelithe said:

Capulous said:

Sony pushed blu-ray onto the playstation to help them win the next format wars. They forced the cost onto consumers in order to profit from it. You actually do not recall the whole people will work 2 jobs just to afford a PS3, and stuff like next gen doesn't start unless we say it does. Yea, it really shows how Sony always only had the gamers in mind for all that.

Uh...Sony sold the 20G PS3 at a $306.85 loss, and the 60G at a $241.35 loss, when they launched.  I'm not so sure history jives with that claim.  They weren't breaking even on the PS3 until at least mid-2010.  They were close as of Dec 2009 with the slim costing $37 over the retail price.

I'm talking about them trying to profit from winning the format wars. I don't know what the exact loss per console was; I did read what a few sites projected. Did Sony ever come out and say exactly what their loss was per console sold?

No, but Isuppli does it for them, and for virtually all major electronics.

And most companies, make things, and provide services to make a profit, if you're adverse to such things, why have you ever bought anything?  And if you're going to ding Sony for attempting to profit from the format wars, you should probably include, 20th Century Fox, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, LG Electronics, Panasonic Corp, Mitsubishi Electric, Philips, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, TDK and Thomson, since they're all part of the Blu Ray founders group (there's actually more but I can't find the full list).