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maverick40 on 19 February 2013

Not going to happen this generation I am afraid. If they are making a loss it will a tiny one.



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007BondAgent on 19 February 2013

it would destroy the competition



IsawYoshi on 19 February 2013
Andrespetmonkey said:
IsawYoshi said:
Are sony capable of such a loss if the playstation sells well?

8 mil units = 1.6 billion loss

Question is could they offset that.

Does anyone know what the average profit Sony make from game sales is? As in from a single game.

Well, I'm not only speaking if sony can recover from it. But sony needs to earn money at the moment, to give the investors confidence. And to say that they are selling each ps4 with a loss of 200 dollars can't be the best thing to do.



Kynes on 19 February 2013

Everyday Sony fans on the Internet confirm me that they want Sony to die. $200 loss on each console would mean hundreds of millions in losses.



radiantshadow92 on 19 February 2013
007BondAgent said:
it would destroy the competition


no it wouldnt, MS can lose much more then sony can



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Turkish on 19 February 2013
Andrespetmonkey said:
Turkish said:
It was predicted the PS2 was losing around $180 when it was launched. 

So that's very similar to the scenario I've suggested, except this time Sony won't sell as many consoles but will have even more ways to make money from each person.

hmm...


Your scenario won't happen, its not competing with the PS3 which in all likelihood will cost 199-249 after the pricecuts.



Andrespetmonkey on 19 February 2013
Kynes said:
Everyday Sony fans on the Internet confirm me that they want Sony to die. $200 loss on each console would mean hundreds of millions in losses.

Read that last line in the OP. 



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007BondAgent on 19 February 2013
radiantshadow92 said:
007BondAgent said:
it would destroy the competition


no it wouldnt, MS can lose much more then sony can


except they won't, microsoft won't go in the red for 3 generations in a row



IsawYoshi on 19 February 2013
Andrespetmonkey said:
Kynes said:
Everyday Sony fans on the Internet confirm me that they want Sony to die. $200 loss on each console would mean hundreds of millions in losses.

Read that last line in the OP. 

He's got a point. People all over the internet believe that they can just say: Hey, lets price this thing like 500$ less than it costs us to make, because then it will sell well, and if a product sells well you must be making money from it!



walsufnir on 19 February 2013
007BondAgent said:
it would destroy the competition

Yes, because Sony would have to leave the market and MS would dominate.