Comments on: Sony’s PS3: Why Losing Money Makes Sense for Them http://gnorb.net/702/sonys-ps3-why-losing-money-makes-sense-for-them Fiction has to be plausible. Reality is under no such constraint. Sun, 12 May 2013 00:03:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Gnorb http://gnorb.net/702/sonys-ps3-why-losing-money-makes-sense-for-them/comment-page-1#comment-81712 Gnorb Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:42:08 +0000 http://www.gnorb.net/games-and-entertainment/20061201/sonys-ps3-why-losing-money-makes-sense-for-them/#comment-81712 Standpoint from 2010:
- PS3 still around? Yep.
- One of the more popular BluRay players? Yep, because it is upgradable to newer standards (BluRay 1.1, 2.0), unlike every other BluRay player out there. (And HDDVD is dead.)
- Units for $299? Yep.
- Sony’s cashing in from both ends? Yep.

I’m going to call this a pretty successful prediction.

]]> By: Junior http://gnorb.net/702/sonys-ps3-why-losing-money-makes-sense-for-them/comment-page-1#comment-13233 Junior Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:54:37 +0000 http://www.gnorb.net/games-and-entertainment/20061201/sonys-ps3-why-losing-money-makes-sense-for-them/#comment-13233 I do see your point.

The PSP when compared to other handhelds was also looked at as a more of total entertainment thing.

My one area of caution is that I believe Sony went in a head to head before with different technologies and players? Wasn’t betamax their answer to vhs or something. Im not sure. This is far before my time.

Though i do agree wiht your analysis on Sony’s lack of care on profit resulting from sale of teh console. Its a powerhouse company with many other fields to dip into in the meantime.

My only concern in the analysis is…if many people dont have a blu ray player/ps3 to start out with because of its high price, or slightly more people have hd dvd players do to a slightly lower price…would you agree that Sony would get screwed?

And yes..ive had the ps2 burnout problem.

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