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Great posting and a lot of work, thanks. My question is what kind of a business model is this?

In a rough estimate how much profit or loss has Sony made in its entire history of video game consoles?

How long will a division be able to serve as a black hole for money, or more diplomatically, grossly underperform before stockholders and or management rebel and pull the plug?

It would seem that now and for the immediate future, Sony would be better off without a game division. It's all well and good to say that the PS3 played a role in the development or spun off the cell technology and Blu-ray etc. but like saying that NASA's moon program led to Mylar and Freeze Drying; it would have been a lot cheaper to just develop those things on their own.