lol @ negative sony ps3 story on Wii news

interesting article, it pretty much summed up all of Sony's fuck-ups within the last couple of years, from the dell laptop battery recall, to the hidden anti-piracy software in discs. it said that sony is lagging behind in the gaming industry with regard to profits, while its core electronics division (w/c produces the flat-panels and digi cams) remain pretty strong.
 
I keep hearing it but I'm still trying to figure out how sony is lagging behind in the gaming industry in terms of profit. in comparison to the other companies.
 
I thought you were talking about their console profit history. I think they have enough room to continue their trend, as long as they produce.
 
pretty shitty that the single most anticipated machine of the year had such a poorly done launch. There is so much they could have done better to really make it hit the market hard but they truely dropped the ball in a big way and i hope someone gets their nuts kicked for it.
 
They oversold their product and underproduced. Sony would have been better off taking a more modest approach, but it seems like they felt the need to try to justify the price at every opportunity.

When you're first to the market you get a little more leeway, but when you show up a year late with no stand out titles, then you're going to be criticized, especially when you're charging $100-200 more than your nearest competetor. Fanboys obviously ran out and bought it up with no reservations, but everyone else waiting to see what they had to offer looks at their launch and most of it has been seen and done before and for cheaper, so why buy the PS3?
 
I think they're doing fine, the way the article presented the numbers made it seem that Sony was losing money, but in fact they're just not making the profits that they have projected for themselves (compared to the past couple of years)
 
everyone bitches and moans about the PS3 launch sales being poor, BUT IT SOLD MORE THAN 360 DID AT LAUNCH

itll be fine, gonna rack up sales in march with all the new games out, and shit theres beginning to be alot of Home Theatre types buying it for the BluRay player alone
 
Yes it did, but that's becauase PS3 has a larger fanboy base. After those clowns bought the console, than you hardcore gamers, and rich spoiled brats get the system. But your average run of the mill family will get their kid an xbox or a wii before they get a ps3.
 
If you want to talk profits,
Nintendo hasn't done a loss-leader approach (taking a financial loss on the consoles) for sometime.
When you bought a Gamecube, Nintendo makes a profit. When you bought a DS, Nintendo makes a profit. It is true for the Wii too.

Microsoft doesn't make a profit (yet) from the 360 (they never did from the original xbox) and Sony may turn a profit on the PS3 sometime in the year 2012.

Mind you I am ONLY talking about the hardware purchase. Loss-leader means that Microsoft takes a loss on the hardware, but makes up for that loss by the sale of games.
 
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