An actual well informed gaming article on the console war

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Aquietguy said:

Losing what?  They are making a profit on every console sold are they?  Correct me if I'm wrong.  Plus console sells don't equal to whether or not a console is gaming first or gimmick.  The reason PS4s or selling so well is hype and name. Thats it.  That's been the case since the first PS. As for the game pad, of the people who own one, most like it. You read it all time of people who didn't like the idea then love it after trying.  But like I said,  the game pad has more than proven it's viability for gaming.  But it ain't for everybody. 

They're actually not. They're just not losing money anymore since they managed to ship the 9 million they had manufactured this past March (May?).  Whether these new consoles they're going to manufacture are at profit is anyone's guess.  Mine is that it isn't.  They've done nothing to optimize the hardware development and they can't get any volume pricing on anything.  There's only a limited amount of manufacturers still making PowerPC, let alone their custom chip which leads me to believe pricing on hardware hasn't gone down much.  It's possible pricing might have gone down to break even.