| Chrkeller said: Making more isn't a great metric. Money is worth a lot less today. Needs to be offset via inflation. In the 60s, 30k a year was an amazing salary. Someone making 40k today isn't making more than someone who made 30k back in the 60s. Edit Don't get me wrong, I agree with your point. I'm just saying the gap isn't as big as it first appears. |
I mean, that's all true but we are talking about a difference of ten years not 60 years. $1 in 2014 is worth about $1.34 today, and that shrinks down to about $1.20 by the time you hit 2020. While that's significant, it's not nearly as significant as you're suggesting.
In addition, Sony is still achieving this in half of the time. Which, unless something were to happen, essentially means by this generations end their profit should be close to double what it was the PS4 generation. Maybe even higher since profit margins get higher later in the generation due to higher software sales and, now, more microtransaction purchases.
