If the Scorpio is too powerful for $399, what does that mean for PS5?

[Azzanation]

Intrinsic said:

Azzanation said:

Also you do know for the first few years of a new console being sold they are losing money on it. I believe only now Sony are making profit on the PS4, not 2 or 3 years ago. If every PS4 was sold at a loss *Lets say -$1* and than you have a console that goes out to sell 30m in its first 2 years.. what does that tell you? The real profit is in the software and the subscribers. We all know Xbox has a healthy subsciber rate and there own software is normally up there with the others, yet they didnt sell as many consoles as PS4 which is where the gaming industry normally loses money. 

Wait..... so now you are saying sony has not bee making money off Playstation for the past two years? Or you mean not making money from the playstation hardware. I will just assume you are referring to the latter cause if it were the former that would be just well..... crazy.

And as for the latter..... that was a really grae example  you gave. And you are right, the real money is in the software and subscribers. But I thik you are on a whole new level of spin if you are somehow suggesting MS is better off not having sold as many physical consoles as the PS4 because that means they have avoided "losing" a lot of money on "hardware" sales.

Like thats MS level PR right there.

You guessed right. I was referring to there hardware profits..

And my message clearly doesnt say MS is better off not selling more than PS.. omg haha where do your conclusions come from?

My main message is clear. Hardware sales DOES NOT tell the full story of a products success. 

In other words Scorpio doesn't have to outsell PS4 to be successful and profitable.