Pinkie_pie said:
That was the first 3 or 4 years when they were bleeding money with Blu Ray. In the end PS3 helped Sony Blu Ray win over HD DVD and Sony were making huge profit from Blu ray. Then when they released the slim PS3 they started making money on each console sold. Second half of PS3 life were their peak years and making profit with GTA5 and the last of us, 2 of the biggest games on PS3. PS3 made a comeback in its last few years and that momentum carried over to the PS4. The Wii U was just a disaster from start to finish selling only 13 millions, it might lost Nintendo less money or made a small profit but still a disaster |
I think we can all agree that the Switch is the correct answer here.
But the PS3 no longer selling at a loss (which took until 2010) and Sony making money on its PS3 endeavor overall are two very different things. At the end of the day, Sony ended very much in the red for the PS3 era.
And Blu-ray winning out over HD-DVD had way more to do with production companies than it did the PS3 and would have won with or without Sony's console featuring the media. The only big movie production company that was exclusively backing HD-DVD was Universal until Paramount, stupidly, decided to do the same at the last minute. This prompted the last big hold out, Warner Bros, to go exclusive with Blu-ray, which sealed the deal. Once that happened, Paramount made note of a specific contractual clause in its exclusive support of HD-DVD that stated that the deal was only for 6 months if Warner, again, the last big hold out, chose to side with Blu-ray, which it did.
