Macroaxis: Sony Has 79% Chance of Going Bankrupt in the Next 2 Years

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Dgc1808 on 02 January 2014

"Nintendo has only a 22% chance of failing in the next 2 years"

So... nothing worry about.

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Devil_Survivor on 03 January 2014

Viktor said:

Devil_Survivor said:

Nem said:
I'm pretty sure they are making lots of money on the PS3 this year.
Dunno if the Vita is profitable or not. They certainly didnt lose money on it in the past years since they never cut the price until last summer so i find it very difficult to believe. If they are losing money now, it certainly isnt that much cause Sony isnt exactly investing like crazy on the Vita ever since it launched.

Maybe for the year, but they haven't come close to recovering the developing costs becasue the PS3 the first 3 or 4 years losing money on every unit sold, and its only since like 2010 or so that they actually ring a little profit from each unti sold.

As for Vita, the price was only cut in Japan, so maybe they make a small profit off each unit sold there, but not in the rest of the world.

This isn´t correct. The official price is 169€ in Europe for a PSV(Wifi)+8GB card with 8 games download bundle. A regular PSV(Wifi) without any accessories was 250€ at launch in 2012.

Do you have a souce for that?, I'm not saying I don't believe you its just the first I'm hearing about it.

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Viktor on 03 January 2014

Devil_Survivor said:

Viktor said:

Devil_Survivor said:

Nem said:
I'm pretty sure they are making lots of money on the PS3 this year.
Dunno if the Vita is profitable or not. They certainly didnt lose money on it in the past years since they never cut the price until last summer so i find it very difficult to believe. If they are losing money now, it certainly isnt that much cause Sony isnt exactly investing like crazy on the Vita ever since it launched.

Maybe for the year, but they haven't come close to recovering the developing costs becasue the PS3 the first 3 or 4 years losing money on every unit sold, and its only since like 2010 or so that they actually ring a little profit from each unti sold.

As for Vita, the price was only cut in Japan, so maybe they make a small profit off each unit sold there, but not in the rest of the world.

This isn´t correct. The official price is 169€ in Europe for a PSV(Wifi)+8GB card with 8 games download bundle. A regular PSV(Wifi) without any accessories was 250€ at launch in 2012.

Do you have a souce for that?, I'm not saying I don't believe you its just the first I'm hearing about it.

I´m talking about this bundle

http://konsolenschnaeppchen.de/87236/playstation-vita-wi-fi-inkl-ps-vita-mega-pack-fur-16997e-inkl-versand/

This is the announcement trailer but there´s also a tv-commercial highlighting the 169€ price of this bundle.

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sales2099 on 03 January 2014

They won't go bankrupt, but if the numbers are there, it certainly means Sony will keep on losing money as a whole. They make a ton of revenue, but profit is another matter.

It has been a while since we heard any actual news. The last was when Sony had to sell 2 buildings and rent them out just to make a profit. When was that?

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Kasz216 on 03 January 2014

sales2099 said:

They won't go bankrupt, but if the numbers are there, it certainly means Sony will keep on losing money as a whole. They make a ton of revenue, but profit is another matter.

It has been a while since we heard any actual news. The last was when Sony had to sell 2 buildings and rent them out just to make a profit. When was that?

Depends what you mean by news

There's been a lot of news since then. It just hasn't been posted on the forums.

They're offering buyouts to their employees in factories

aren't going to sell their battery line because they won't sell it cheap enough,.

canceled their OLED TV line

Teamed up with Microsoft and are going to be the newest maker of Windows phones