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

[Bodhesatva]

tombi123 said:
If Blu-ray becomes as dominant as DVD, Sony will easily make this money back. The End.

 

 Sigh, you've been here for too long to say stuff like this, Tombi.

Do you have any evidence to support this? At all? Any statistical data to indicate how much money Sony specifically makes? Factor in the continued marketing costs, derive the precise royalty fees for each Blu Ray sold, and then calculate precisely how much of each royalty payment goes to Sony, and not one of the other seventeen members on the board of directors? Are we certain that none of the other 94 members don't get a cut for their generous support? Do we know how much marketing costs will incur to support Blu Ray (not the PS3, but Blu Ray in particular)? I'd guess you have no evidence of any kind, because I've looked, and I certainly can't find any. It may be 200 million per board member, it may be 1 billion. I don't know. But you don't either, so stop using this defense.

And of course, all of this assumes, as you say, that Blu Ray takes off like DVD.