SONY lost 3.31 Billion on initial PS3 costs; May never see that money back.

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Million said:

Sony has some real problems here. First of all, I still maintain that Blu-Ray was a huge mistake. Blu-Ray is not going to penetrate the market the way DVD did. Ever. Apple and Amazon and Netflix and your cable companies will be providing affordable HD movies on demand whenever you want, whatever you want at an affordable price point within the next five years. I just don't think they are going to make enough money back - remember they are just a piece of the Blu-Ray group.

Firstly fast internet connections are far from being the norm , infact even in the UK households with any internet what so ever may still be at 60%-75% at a rough guess .BTW who's going to carry the huge costs of HD media availible to you the second you press a button , I'm positive as hell that the ISP's won't , i'm also sure that if Apple , Amazon or Netflix wanted HD Media they'd have to carry the burden of the ISP's , something they may not be so willing to do as individual businesses.

 

Remember that if they take 5 years to make this money back, they will already be in or will be nearing research and development of the PS4 by then, which is then a few billion more in costs.

Well i'm pretty sure Sony has the finances to be able to fund huge R&D projects so if the PS3 fails to make a profit I don't think it would hinder the PS4 too much unless Sony felt a change of stratergy would be in order.

 

So does that mean that we can drop the whole BS about the losses from the original Xbox dooming the 360 that PS3 fanboys love to make?