So I did some digging around in financial reports for giggles because that's the type of guy I am....one with far too much time on his hands.
in 10/25/07 the numbers were:
Hardware:
PS2 - 3.28million, -.13 million from prev year
PSP - 2.58 million, +.56 million from prev year
PS3 - 1.31 million
Software:
PS2 - 38.0 million, -9.2 million from prev year
PSP - 12.6 million, -.6 million from prev year
PS3 - 10.3 million
with a profit of - 841 million dollars.
in 1/31/08 the numbers were:
Q3 Hardware Shipments
PS3 4.9 million units
PSP 5.8 million units
Ps2 5.4 million units
Q3 Software Shipments
PS3 26 million units
PSP 18.3 million units
Ps2 60.9 million units
with a profit of 133 million
so in the second quarter we had 60.9 million software sales total in comparison to 105.2 million software sales the 3rd quarter.
The hardware sales were 45.7% PS2, 36% PSP, 18.3% PS3 for the second quarter
third quarter: 33.5% PS2, 36% PSP, 30.4% PS3
So in essence, there was a greater percentage of hardware sales taken up by the PS3, but profit went up. Only thing that could have made up for this would be the Increased software sales. I wish we had some numbers for profit for each game/ console so I could figure this out, but I think that at the least, this shows that they made a significant decrease in the PS3 cost and I see no reason to believe that they won't continue. Whether or not they were near breaking even by the point of the 3rd quarter is debatable, which is why I suggest we don't really know if they are losing money on each PS3 currently until we get the latest financial reports.
disclaimer: this is all incredibly basic analysis that doesn't account for all of the different things that could have increased profits for 3rd quarter over 2nd and only looks at sales of hardware and software without including peripherals. All of these numbers were taken from VGchartz news articles.
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