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mchaza on 11 February 2011
chapset said:
chapset said:

sony lost billions with the ps3 but will gain billions with blu-ray and the ps3 was a very important factor in that win so it's not as bad as it seams



did you quote your own post :D

and yes sony have positioned themselves well because blu Ray is rising and because of PS3 they are the biggest produces of Blu ray products and disk they will be able to come in cheaper (because of constantly trying to reduce costs with ps3) and quicker (bigger mau power) so all the customers (publishers, studios) will continue to flock to them for mass production. 



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chapset on 11 February 2011
mchaza said:
chapset said:
chapset said:

sony lost billions with the ps3 but will gain billions with blu-ray and the ps3 was a very important factor in that win so it's not as bad as it seams



did you quote your own post :D

and yes sony have positioned themselves well because blu Ray is rising and because of PS3 they are the biggest produces of Blu ray products and disk they will be able to come in cheaper (because of constantly trying to reduce costs with ps3) and quicker (bigger mau power) so all the customers (publishers, studios) will continue to flock to them for mass production. 

I edited and it quoted at the same time I think



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austin2359 on 12 February 2011

if we consider blu-ray's victory, was sony's loss worth it?



XanderZane on 12 February 2011
austin2359 said:

Which console has lost the most money for the company?

How many people think PS3 or 360 can eventually profit?

 

I am not sure if 360 is still in the red, but I do not know where to find this stuff out.


Overall the PS3 is still in the RED. The XBox 360 got out of the RED in the Spring of last year. The XBox 360 has been making a profit for almost 3 yrs now. M$ was still in the red though for awhile before last year. The PS3 just started to become profitable early last year. Even after the PS3 Slim launched, it was still losing money for about 6 months.



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MonstaMack on 12 February 2011

I'm a die hard XBox fan but would never imagine anything of this world toppling the massive losses the original XBox had. If any company outside of Microsoft ran the original XBox they would have declared bankrupcy within the first year or two of releasing it.



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Edgeoflife on 12 February 2011
austin2359 said:

if we consider blu-ray's victory, was sony's loss worth it?

That is a very interesting question but since we don't know how much of blu rays sucess was due to ps3 or how many blu ray frequenters only have a ps3 as a player so we don't have the data needed to determine that objective and we never will, also it's worth mentioning that ps3 is helping Sony sell HD and 3D tvs well not so much HD anymore but at the start of the gen it was, and their 3D tv push would have failed horribly without the ps3 so factor that in too, yeah it's pretty impossible 



Grimes on 12 February 2011

Sony's consumer device unit hasn't been doing that great and the motion pictures unit hasn't been much of a money maker either, so it's not like blu-ray is a big cash cow or you would see these divisions doing much better.



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Edgeoflife on 12 February 2011
Grimes said:

Sony's consumer device unit hasn't been doing that great and the motion pictures unit hasn't been much of a money maker either, so it's not like blu-ray is a big cash cow or you would see these divisions doing much better.

Blu ray has nothing to do with the gaming division 



Grimes on 12 February 2011
Edgeoflife said:
Grimes said:

Sony's consumer device unit hasn't been doing that great and the motion pictures unit hasn't been much of a money maker either, so it's not like blu-ray is a big cash cow or you would see these divisions doing much better.

Blu ray has nothing to do with the gaming division 


Then tell that to the people who posted above.



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Edgeoflife on 12 February 2011
Grimes said:
Edgeoflife said:
Grimes said:

Sony's consumer device unit hasn't been doing that great and the motion pictures unit hasn't been much of a money maker either, so it's not like blu-ray is a big cash cow or you would see these divisions doing much better.

Blu ray has nothing to do with the gaming division 


Then tell that to the people who posted above.

I meant finnacially, as in their not the division that gets the profits even if they cause the sales