He's certainly not wrong about negative MS/Nintendo news getting trumpeted from the rooftops while anything that doesn't depict Sony and godlike and perfect is buried by the internet cheerleader squad.

I do damage control for Sony because his damage is beyond controlling.

Yes there is a lot of Sony bias but that's not coming from nowhere. He may have a point but the method of delivering and his "proofs" are just laughable.

He singles out single occurences of events and applies them to all fanboys to fit his argument. He says that IGN is biased for Sony. Why would it? IGN or other gaming outlets have no stake in this war. They don't gain revenue by posting only positive news for one company. This also completely ignores 99% of the rest of the coverage of both consoles that was not biased. So he is doing nothing else than fanboys by cherry picking bits that fit his argument.

He also keeps going on about that one moderator on N4G that failed that one article. It's not even clear why it was failed. Maybe it was a duplicate. But this guy doesn't even consider a different possibility than fanboyism.

Then that whole 30fps business. Yes there were a few Sony fanboys saying that 30fps is not next gen. This was not a general statement but a counter to an X1 version of the same game. It was always about getting the best version possible. If an X1 game couldn't do 60fps like a PS4 game could it was bad. There were some games that the PS4 only managed to get 30fps but in those cases the X1 had to reduce the resolution so 30fps were till the best console version of the game. No Sony fanboy will argue that the PS4 can manage all games at 60fps. It's just not strong enough for that. But we have at least a guarantee that if the PS4 only manages 30fps that it is the best possible on a console with the same visual fidelity. That's why it is ok.

He poses as a white knight for unbiased gaming but his rhetoric and ignorance puts him in the very same category as any fanboy.

$1.1 billion operating loss is peanuts for a company that has a fortune half a trillion or a trillion dollars. Let;s call it a small splash in the ocean and dismiss it as a minor loss due to investing in the new PS4.

Well, their gaming division did profit in Q4 2013, so if they are losing money on the PS4 HW (not even sure if that's the case), then everything else is more than enough to make up for it.

Context, how does it work?

Ninty losing $1 billion could only be for massively screwing up in theirgaming business, which is their only business, and the only business gamers care about. No one denies Sony made big losses on PS3 early years, but in the last few years gaming has been pretty healthy.

30fps on Xb one IS bad when exactly the same game on PS4 is running mostly at 60fps, and the Xb one version isn;t even locked at 30. It would also be bad on The Order if the game otherwise looked and performed exactly like the aforementioned multiplatform game with significant fps difference between PS4 and Xb one.

But yeah, leave out context if it looks like it will support the argument.

Sony never said that. Some analysts reckoned the bill of materials was less than the RRP, but that doesn't take into account the other costs associated with getting a console into consumers' homes. I think Sony suggested PS4 + one purchased game = slight profit. Dunno if the bundles like Knack or KZ are profitable.

I think the vast majority of PS fans were just relieved that Sony wasn't taking a massive hit with each console, which may have crossed people's minds with the $399 price. If non-PS fans interpretted that relief (even jubilation) as a belief of HW profit from day one then that's those non-fans' mistake, not the deception of the PS fanosphere. I think I might have hoped for day one HW profit for about a week until I read the best analyst predictions on cost to market.

:P

Si^

''But the latest iteration of its popular video game console, the Playstation 4, has seen strong sales. It’s on track to beat guidance of 5 million console sales by the end of March, having reached 4.2 million at the end of December

Still, expensive development costs left Sony warning it will take at least two years to break even on the console.''

http://business.financialpost.com/2014/02/06/sony-corp-turnaround-2014/?__lsa=59d3-e505

Yea selling buildings, TV brand line and Computer brand line is doing great. point being, it's not as Rosie as some might believe. This is no Small potatoes.

I for one would like sony to stick around for competition but it's not looking that great and if this fails, they don't have much left to fall on. You can only lose for so long.