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Jandre002 on 23 January 2008

Go figure.

 

http://www.thebitbag.com/2008/01/23/playstation-hardware-revenue-surpassed-microsoft-and-nintendo-in-december/ 

 

So much for the "sony is losing way to much money on hardware." stuff huh? 



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URNotE on 23 January 2008

that link is messed up for some reasonhttp://www.thebitbag.com/2008/01/23/playstation-hardware-revenue-surpassed-microsoft-and-nintendo-in-december/



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konnichiwa on 23 January 2008

Good for Sony :).






Dolla Dolla on 23 January 2008

Revenue is the keyword.

When you have 3 different systems on the market, all more expensive then the competition ('cept the PS2), it's kinda easy to win in revenue, no?



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Avinash_Tyagi on 23 January 2008
Jandre002 said:

Go figure.

 

http://www.thebitbag.com/2008/01/23/playstation-hardware-revenue-surpassed-microsoft-and-nintendo-in-december/ 

 

So much for the "sony is losing way to much money on hardware." stuff huh? 


 Revenue isn't the same as profit

 

Profit is revenue minus cost 



 

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ClaudeLv250 on 23 January 2008

Thread just set itself up for failure.



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Darc Requiem on 23 January 2008
Jandre002 said:

Go figure.

 

http://www.thebitbag.com/2008/01/23/playstation-hardware-revenue-surpassed-microsoft-and-nintendo-in-december/

 

So much for the "sony is losing way to much money on hardware." stuff huh?


You are confusing revenue with profit. For example Nintendo has to sell two Wii's to get the same amount of revenue as Sony would from one 80GB PS3.

EDIT: Well I can see the rest of the forum is well informed at least. Several of us has responded with an accurate take on the situation. 



Rath on 23 January 2008

Link doesn't work.

In any case its suprising as I assumed that Wii+DS would have had a higher revenue than PSP+PS2+PS3, nevertheless it is certain that Nintendo has made far more profit on hardware than Sony did.



Jandre002 on 23 January 2008
Dolla Dolla said:
Revenue is the keyword.

When you have 3 different systems on the market, all more expensive then the competition ('cept the PS2), it's kinda easy to win in revenue, no?

 Exactly. Which is why Sony is in a very healthy position. But come on, you all just HAD to believe it was going to be Nintendo. The last person you thought it would be is Sony.

 *Sniff sniff*   Do I smell a price drop perhaps? Whats sure is that if Xbox360 drops, so will the PS3.

  



erikers on 23 January 2008

Wow, they only had to bunch 3 consoles together to say that. I'm sure that's great consolation for Sony as it watches the PSP get crushed in hardware and software sales by the DS and watches the PS3 lose to everybody. Not to mention they don't even make a penny on the "revenue" the PS3 brings in.

Gotta love pointless articles like this that fail to paint an even close to actual picture of what's really going on.

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