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Kerotan on 26 January 2019
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zorg1000 said:
Kerotan said:

This week in South Korea and Taiwan the ps4 had a big temporary promotion and was sold for around $230. There were massive lines queuing up.

One thing to take note of is that temporary deals will see more explosive sales since people will rush out to get it before the price goes back up then sales crater afterwards.

Permanent price cuts cause a boost too but they are more about creating an increase in baseline sales rather than a one time boost.

Well I know that but I don't think sales will crater. Maybe for a week or two but the ps4 was selling well in these countries already so it's not like they were at crater levels at the higher price. 

PortisheadBiscuit said:
Kerotan said:

Was that 5BN loss by the end of the gen? If my memory is correct they reduced the overall loss during the last few years. 

Yeah, but the person I was replying to was saying that loss on hardware was basically par for the course, which is true, but PS1 and PS2 didn't see billions in losses like the PS3. Even if PS3 did break even in the end, it was no where near the success of its predecessors or successor. 

Ps3 didn't break even overall. It reduced it's losses but still lost. Yeah the extra revenue from bluray winning would have been sizable and still to this day they are reaping that but I doubt it was enough to counter the big ps3 losses. 

I think I read that it took until 2017 or 2018 for the ps4 to earn back the losses the ps3 had left. Obviously going forward with the ps4 and ps5 the overall playstation business since it launched will be massively up in profits but there's no denying the ps3 was a massive stumbling block.