| madskillz said: @ MrMafoo I just have one question - if Sony is in such good financial shape, then why did they sell its chip making division off? The PS3 brand has drained the PS1 and PS2's profit in little more than a year. While Sony may be thriving, their gaming division is hurting. I never, ever said MS was flawless - but their mistakes are minimal. And the 360 will die outside of the U.S.? When do you see this happening? The console was selling before the PS3 launch, it's still selling now, and will sell even more when MS cuts the price a bit. I see Sony losing more just from the standpoint of having to stop a lower-priced competitor. At this rate, the PS3 will take years to overcome the 360. And as I stated earlier, the 360 isn't the Xbox, and to think the 360 will fail like the Xbox is insane. Just look at the numbers - WW - and see one thing - if they figured out Japan, the 360 would be leading the PS3 totally. All you have to do is keep watching the charts. The PS3 is really just running a wii bit ahead of the 360 WW ... domination is not on the horizon ... |
You say all MS has to do is lower their prices. There is one flaw in that. Sony can easily lower there’s as well (or lower it first).
MS has one way to combat the PS3 for next year, and that’s price. Sony can take that away from MS by just lowering the cost of the PS3 as well.
They have a lot more incentive to do so. If they did, it would mean more BR players. Now the Format war is between DVD and BR. To sell more BR’s, they need more players.
Lowering the cost would be more than a Games Division win.
Another way to lower costs is to sell your chip manufacturing to someone who does it better and cheaper then you. That’s been done too (and should answer your question).
I see the PS3 killing the 360 sometime in late 2008, or early 2009.
MS has yet to show a profit. Yes, they play with numbers and say they had a profitable quarter. They do that by frontloading a billion in costs for RRoD's though warrantee extensions, and then can say the thousands they had to fix this quarter don't apply to current profits.
MS's game division is down billions of dollars if you add up all moneys spend and made from there gaming division. Sony on the other hand has been very profitable. I don’t know how dumping billions of dollars onto something that still cannot be determined as successful is a minimal mistake.
Same goes for Vista. That cost them 6 billion to make, and has done nothing but damage the company’s reputation even more. Yea, they have sold millions of copies with new systems. But if they had just improved XP, more system with Windows would have been sold in that timeframe. It’s a loss for MS, another one that can’t be considered minimal.
