Ka-pi96 said:
Jay70sgamer said:
Ka-pi96 said:
No, it isn't. If the profits are big then yeah that would be succesful. But what is the point in making a console and spending a lot of money on it if the profit at the end is only going to be small?
It either has to make a BIG profit by itself, or sell enough consoles and gain enough brand awareness to greatly increase the chance of big profits from the next console.
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You are wrong .....all companies are in business to make a profit at the end of the day and your way of thinking is way off...consoles does not make gaming companies profitable it is software .....do you think Microsoft or Sony are happy that they sold 80,000,000 consoles and did not start making a profit until year 5 or 6 of its release and still haven't made a profit at the end of the generation.....and too your question what's the point of making a console and at the end of the day if it doesn't make a profit....it makes no sense ..that is why Nintendo is always gonna be around because they are a very smart company......Profits >over how many consoles we sell or coming in first or second place.....why do you think they have billions in the bank...no debt and that is sound business sense they could care less where they finish
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The last few years of the PS3 it was making profit, besides that if it wasn't for the 80 million consoles that the PS3 sold and the support it received from Sony the PS4 wouldn't be doing as well as it is.
I'm right. Any company that is smart would favour long term profitability over a one off profit. That is what selling 80 million consoles has given Sony. Now the PS4 looks set to further that and make the initial investment even more worthwhile.
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But Sony doesn't even have profitabilty in the long or short term. Even the PS division hardly makes any money or even loses it the case of last year when it lost 78 million. Nintendo had been profitable its entire history except the last couple years and that was his point I believe they know how plan for the long term. Fanboys get way too wrapped up in how many units their favorite console moves over a certain time span and it the end that doesn't matter because if you don't make any money then its pointless how many you sell. Look at MS they have never made even a dollar of the Xbox brand and in fact they lost about 2 billlion dollars according to that report last year.
