The Sony PS3 thread (apparently *still* obnoxious!)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6916889.stmSony profits for the April to June period have more than doubled as robust demand for its cameras and a weak yen offset losses at its games unit.
Despite Sony cutting the price of the PS3 in the US, sales of the system still significantly trail Nintendo's Wii machine. Sony's games division saw losses widen to 29.2bn yen.
Sony said it aimed to increase shipments of the PS3 to 11 million units by 2008. On Wednesday, Nintendo upgraded sales forecasts of its Wii console to 16.5 million machines for the year to March 2008, up from a previous forecast of 14 million.
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Kronos
If they "sold" that many in 1 1/4 years that means they expect to ship more PS3s than 360s at current prices in a similar amount of time, that's just crazy talkchub wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6916889.stmSony profits for the April to June period have more than doubled as robust demand for its cameras and a weak yen offset losses at its games unit.
Despite Sony cutting the price of the PS3 in the US, sales of the system still significantly trail Nintendo's Wii machine. Sony's games division saw losses widen to 29.2bn yen.
Sony said it aimed to increase shipments of the PS3 to 11 million units by 2008. On Wednesday, Nintendo upgraded sales forecasts of its Wii console to 16.5 million machines for the year to March 2008, up from a previous forecast of 14 million.
I wonder if the PS3 is the last esoteric custom made console Sony will make, how much of the 425 total is accounted for by the cost of a Blu-Ray reader anyone?
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Kronos
So fair to say about 140 quid more than the DVDrom in my 360. Add the WiFi and Blutooth and extra 40gb larger hard drive and you can see why at 280 M$ are still making a profit*!!benedictw wrote:Well, you can buy blue ray drives for PC's for 140+VAT, so gives you an idea.
oh well i wish them luck repeating the 360s success, half of those were the cut down Core packs to start with anyway =/
*well until they had to underwrite the shit build quality with a 3 year warranty
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iSuppli's estimates were about $520 for the BOM at launch. I don't believeDio wrote:Where's your proof of this?WiteWulf wrote:Don' forget MS made a hefty loss on every 360 they sold for quite some time after launch...
that it's easy to come up with such figures, but those are the ones people
argue about and the source for most of the PS3 figures you see banded
about.
Anyway, Microsoft has lost an absolute fortune on gaming, and even
Microsofties are starting to get pissed off about it.
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Windows and Office people getting pissed off about the losses from gamingWiteWulf wrote:You mean the gaming division in general or just software?Kemper_Boyd wrote: Anyway, Microsoft has lost an absolute fortune on gaming, and even
Microsofties are starting to get pissed off about it.
hardware and software.
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Yep they both make a loss, trouble is it wasn't like Sony who are haemoraging money badly over the PS3's esoteric design (read as not as good bang per buck as the 360s simpler design!) and Sony don't make as much as Microsoft as a company worldwide I'm guessing, so it is quite different this time round.
Anyway, I was going to ask is DiRT out for the PS3 yet and if it is can someone tell me if it is any better graphically than the 360 version and what is the handling like on the rumble free PS3 controllers? Desperate for a proper rally game, actually like the career mode in DiRT.
Anyway, I was going to ask is DiRT out for the PS3 yet and if it is can someone tell me if it is any better graphically than the 360 version and what is the handling like on the rumble free PS3 controllers? Desperate for a proper rally game, actually like the career mode in DiRT.