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Barkley said:

Also the PS4 Hardware was sold at a profit after just 6 months. So his statement is just plain wrong.

"Sony president Kaz Hirai said the PS4 was "already contributing profit on a hardware unit basis" May 2014

Whats even funnier is that that staement doesn't even suggest that it took that long for the PS4 to be being sold at a profit. That was just when kaz talked about it. Nothing could have changed in the hardware space between launch and 6 months after for the console to go from  selling at a loss of any kind to selling at a profit. Well... except shipping, air freight is more expensive than sea freight and they only use the former when having stock issues.

Its no secret that that the PS4 cost only around $380 to make when it launched. And stores take a very little markup off console sales because they too make more from selling software and accessories than from the actual hardware.