Microsoft and Sony are destroying their (and each other's) gaming business

[NJ5]

RedArmia said:

NJ5 said:

 

When I put that together with the losses that they have sustained before this point (especially Sony in terms of the current-gen), I get this picture:

This is a like battle between irate giants, who keep pounding each other (and themselves) to the ground at every step, even when they're getting near the climax of their product's life.

They're not just competing, they're competing so fiercely that the only winners in the business seem to be the consumers and a few lucky third parties.

 

Its hilarious how many of you are arrogant enought to think you know more then these corps, as if your a analysts not that they are of any value making this even more hilarious.

You don't even even understand the basics of it.

Sony ate the PS3 losses for BR and time has show them to have done the right thing, somehting a hell of alot more valueble the gaming was to them even at PS2s height of market dominance.

MS are losing ground fast in softwre, they are desperatly looking for a market that will be a big part of their future business. They are going for broke trying to gain a significance marlet share, to bad for them their comp is so damn good.

In reality this is a battle where Sony took a beating but survivded and now is kicking MS ass. Its only matter of time beofre MS falls and Sony eats up their marlet share.

Given sales and the price of PS3 360 hardware, its not hard to see that MS actions now have little affect on Sony.

If you know as much as you're trying to appear to, tell me how Sony is going to make back the losses they had with the PS3 (which are bigger than the profits they did during the PS2 period... there's financial data around to prove that, in the form of a table made from fiscal reports which has been appearing everywhere in this and other forums lately). That means that even a PS2-like success wouldn't be enough to get the PS3 back from the red.

Sony obviously wasn't expecting to lower their prices so fast, and that's taking its toll in their finances.

I don't think I'm an analyst, but I do think that I'm raising a valid point for debate. Replying with "they're corporations, they know what they're doing" doesn't cut it. Countless corporations have failed.