Shuhei Yoshida: Only Four Out of Ten PlayStation Games Make Money, but Sony Will Always Support Talent

[DonFerrari]

MoHasanie said:

DonFerrari said:

That is what I hear, but Sony selling so much as 160M HW and 1.5B in total SW (probably north of 150M 1st parties) they should have profited much more than the figures we see throw around.

But remember that the one third of the PS2s sales came after the PS3 launched. So by 2006, it could have been very profitable but the game division still reported a loss because of the PS3. 

I agree with you, and perhaps that is the reason we didn't saw a reaaaaaaaaaaaaly big hole in PS financials in the first 2 or 3 years... but even so, the notion of 20% carring the weight and 60% being dead weight support the vision that I said to the guy I quoted that it's based on Sony historical data.