do you think Sony is holding back some titles due to.......

[MikeB]

Dno said:

starcraft said:
I believe Sony is losing between $80 and $100 dollars on the PS3 per unit. The rest of it would be marketing and R&D costs. Though of course, those costs have to be spread across the consoles sold as well, but they are far easier to scale than actual hardware and production costs.

Sony is about even with the ps3. they are not losing close to 100 bucks on each system. sony is much father along with price reduction then microsoft. i dont no where you get your info from but its wrong.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/01/15/ps3_component_costs_halved/

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/sony-halves-cost-of-ps3-development-kit

 

It's true production costs have been significantly reduced. But there are additional costs such as for marketing, retailer profit share of the retail price, further R&D (new OS features, free Home, hardware advancements, etc), localizations, localized support and warranty, PSN servers, local taxes, etc. I do think their entertainment division overall will post a healthy profit this year though.