d21lewis on 21 September 2017
This thread has taken a turn and I'm always cool with that. I want to ask a question:
Why is sales the barometer for success? I know profit margin information is harder to come by than raw sales figures but wouldn't a better gauge be how much a company spends on hardware, how much they make per unit sold, and how much they earn on software?
Take the PS3, for example. Looking at the sales, it would look like an indisputable success. However, (last I heard), I actually wound up costing Sony money. When comparing the 3DS and PSP (two consoles I absolutely LOVE, btw) which one made their parent company more money?
If you could choose there profits made from one or the other, which would you choose?
