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Forums - Sales Discussion - Even if 2009 will be the year of the ps3, will it be to late?

yushire on 26 November 2008
Asmo said:
yushire said:

 

 I think SONY cant afford another price cut till next year. And by next year its already too late they missed the opportunity. SONY is doomed even how you spin it its the reality of things, nothing can change it.

Why is it too late? The PS3 is only at its 3rd year in 2009, looking at the sales, it's not as if the PS3 will reach 0 units sold a week anytime soon, far from it.

 

After christmas season was the slowest months of the year, and its also the endo of the fiscal year. Only the Wii this year could sold christmas season numbers even its not christmas season yet. Even the PS3 had a price drop I think it only raise the sales of the PS3 slightly because consumers already spend their money during christmas season...

 



end of core gaming days prediction:

 

E3 2006-The beginning of the end. Wii introduced

 

E3 2008- Armageddon. Wii motion plus introduced. Wii Music. Reggie says Animal crossing was a core game. Massive disappointment. many Wii core gamers selling their Wii.

 

E3 2010- Tape runs out

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/march2009/ICG_Tape_runs_out.jpg

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Asmo on 26 November 2008
ZenfoldorVGI said:

So they ARE making a profit....?

Why don't the cut the price then, for God sakes.

Because the goal when you sell something is to get money from it and not loose? Get it?

 



NJ5 on 26 November 2008
Asmo said:
Oyvoyvoyv said:

Are you sure? I would think Sony and MS are now seeing similar losses pr console sold. As x360 sells more SW, I believe MS still loses less money on X360 than Sony does on Ps3.

They are pretty much equally situated for a price cut right now. Of course, this isn't a very good way to analyse - it would suggest Nintendo dropping Wii's price to 75 dollars!

 

Nope, Sony is making profit with the PS3 at this price, they said it themselves. On the other hand, with the 360 at such low price, I wonder how the MS game division is doing...

 

Where and when did Sony say that?

 



My Mario Kart Wii friend code: 2707-1866-0957

FaRmLaNd on 26 November 2008

@Asmo

Please provide a link where sony says they make a profit off each ps3 sold, I thought they were still making a loss. I'd love to be wrong.



yushire on 26 November 2008
Asmo said:
yushire said:

 Ermh... do you know that the 360 released on 2005 right? So the parts making the 360 is cheap to manufacture right now. So they didnt lose an arm and a limb when they did the price cut the 360 is already 3 years old...

A Wii is as expensive to make as the retail sale of the 360, so no I don't think MS is making profit with the 360 at this price.

 

 

 Are you sure? Wii is only a pimped GC with motion controls. And the 360 was the cheapest console to ever manufacture, the 360 have the largest power brick, a disc tray(YES, the 360 still uses disc tray), a noisy fan and dont forget the RROD. YES... the 360 was so cheap to manufacture that it causes RROD. Simply because the GPU and the CPU of the 360 was stronger than the Wii doesnt mean its not cheap to manufacture. This is MS we're talking about, the one that made Windows and its blue screen of death and theyre not even know how to make hardware. The Wii is made by ATI BTW and the PS3 is done by SONY themselves.



end of core gaming days prediction:

 

E3 2006-The beginning of the end. Wii introduced

 

E3 2008- Armageddon. Wii motion plus introduced. Wii Music. Reggie says Animal crossing was a core game. Massive disappointment. many Wii core gamers selling their Wii.

 

E3 2010- Tape runs out

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/march2009/ICG_Tape_runs_out.jpg

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Oyvoyvoyv on 26 November 2008
Asmo said:
Oyvoyvoyv said:

Are you sure? I would think Sony and MS are now seeing similar losses pr console sold. As x360 sells more SW, I believe MS still loses less money on X360 than Sony does on Ps3.

They are pretty much equally situated for a price cut right now. Of course, this isn't a very good way to analyse - it would suggest Nintendo dropping Wii's price to 75 dollars!

 

Nope, Sony is making profit with the PS3 at this price, they said it themselves. On the other hand, with the 360 at such low price, I wonder how the MS game division is doing...

 

Hehe, I doubt this. Unless you can find a link, I call BS on this.

Of course, you may mean that Sony made profit in a single Q (or half year), but that is because they still earn heavily on Ps2, and decently on PsP.

 



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Asmo on 26 November 2008
NJ5 said:

Where and when did Sony say that?

 

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53906 ?

 



drizzlenuts on 26 November 2008

not this again lol



NJ5 on 26 November 2008
Asmo said:
NJ5 said:

Where and when did Sony say that?

 

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53906 ?

 

They don't say they're profiting off PS3 hardware there. They don't even say they profit from the PS3. That's a profit of the gaming division (including PS2 and PSP).

 



My Mario Kart Wii friend code: 2707-1866-0957

Asmo on 26 November 2008
NJ5 said:
Asmo said:
NJ5 said:

Where and when did Sony say that?

 

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53906 ?

 

They don't say they're profiting off PS3 hardware there. They don't even say they profit from the PS3. That's a profit of the gaming division (including PS2 and PSP).

 

owing the reduction to better performance of "the PS3 business" and "strong sales of PSP hardware."

 

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