ssj12 said:
Sony last time it was announced makes $7 profit every PS2 sold. So, taking that into account. The PS2 sells what 11k - 60k a week in Japan. so take 11k time $7 equals $77 profit. |
I think what many people are getting at is Sony spends a lot of money on Marketing and Research and Development, and the money that they put into the PS3 and PSP (pretty much) eliminated all profits that Sony had made from the life of the PS2.
I think the interesting question is whether the PSP-2 or PS4 will exist (or what will they be like) if the PSP and PS3 do not become a lot more profitable. Nintendo has survived and had the resources to continue hardware development even though they did not have the dominant position in the home console market by always dominating the handheld market and selling more games than almost every other publisher in the world. Sony may not have these luxuries and could potentially have difficulty gaining access to the quantity of resources needed to build a videogame console.
