Ha ha. I like how you've replied to pretty much every post in this thread.

The lack of Piracy could in fact result in weaker hardware sales because the people who would buy the console and simply pirate the games, aren't going to buy the console...because they can't pirate the games.

Interesting theory.

So you're speculating that. Ok.

It's good that they may be making a profit on hardware, but it's only a small step to overall profitability. The PS2 and PSP are bringing in less profit, so the PS3 needs to be gaining just to offset those losses.

if prediction is speculating then this site isn't much better for you

piracy makes HW sales but not that much

like that 360 should be much higher in sales

interesting theory

Please, don't compare what you have done with all the work the admins and analysts of VGChartz make. That's presumptuous.

What it got to do with Japanese yen? Its more to do with China Renmingbi cause PS3 and other consoles are made at the mass suicide house aka Foxconn, we all want cheap consoles, and forget the real cost behind it...

Oh, what the hell, I'll still buy cheap 3DS when it comes out, even if it was made in Foxconn. 

Sony's accounting is made in yens. Most of their employees are in Japan. Even if their contracts are in yuans or US$, they have to pay to their employees, so that's why even they use it as one of the excuses of their losses in the networking division:

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/viewer/09q4/slide/image/10_image.jpg

no not comparing but on the forums we do make predictions and after 4 years on this site and following prices,your predictions are alot better

I'm sure that the PSN is losing money, but the PSN plus thing could help out a lot.  There's a lot of $$$$$ that Sony is leaving on the table by not charging for premium services but thankfully this has recently been fixed :)

Also, the Steamworks thing that Sony is getting, and will have on many new games after the 2nd half of 2010, will add marketshare for the PS3 and give Sony access to the heavy computer users, a group that up until now has been heavily favoring the 360, and will increase the marketshare in a way that won't require Sony to spend any $$$$.

So, I think that Sony will be doing slightly better in 2011 than 2010.                

At least Sony is not messing things up tactically like MS, spending so much on the kinect that they are having to forego the usual amount of new games for the next year.  The announced games for MS's 2011 looks to be trailing behind Sony significantly, well the geniuses working at MS are deciding to ignore the shooter and action kinds of games that make MS a big thing and instead make a bunch of casuals that will target a less desireable audience.