Qwark said:
https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/251038-theres-no-profit-margin-microsoft-xbox-one-x
This gives a good insight in the total net losses of Playstation from 2000 to 2011. They actually ended on a net loss.
As you can see shot really hit the fan when the PS3 launched. It took Sony more than half a decade to turn the massive losses the PS brand suffered back to a small profit. Yet at the end of 2011 it was not even near 2004 levels. So the PS3 made a nett loss big enough to vaporise the profit of the most succesfull console ever made. |
That's not exactly accurate, though, is it? That also includes other products that were losing money that Sony coupled with the gaming division, even when it started to become profitable. Granted, I can believe it probably burnt through all the profits the PS1 made, but I highly doubt it was both.
