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lol the funny thing is that Estonia will get the ps3 about 2 months after the rest of europe >_> That means maybe ill have to wait until summer. And there's a high probability that there wont be any 60gig model here.
Take heart, man. Most of the bad news on this site relating to Sony is either outright BS (see "Sony going out of business" comments) or overblown spins on negative press from anti-PS3 websites with no real journalistic credibility (i.e. mislabeled opinion pieces).It's just a let down getting bad news after bad news, you know?
Companies don't do this. Anywhere you've read this, it's a hypothetical crock of **** devised by some dubious mathematical guesswork from people who write propaganda pieces for piece of **** websites designed to do nothing more than to keep you coming back and seeing their stupid 5-bucks-per-hit banner ads. I will repeat this for any who don't understand: NO FACTUAL MATH HAS BEEN PRESENTED TO SUPPORT THIS IDEA. So rest easy about this. Trust me, man--this is capitalism at it's finest. Corporations don't do a damn thing unless the bottom line is in their favor.They're actually going to lose a lot of money on the launch. They lose money with every console sold so they're going to lose millions.
Unless you have Sony's financial documents from the last 2 years of development, you don't have proof to the contrary, either.Right, so companies don't lose money on consoles.
It's only what everyone always says. I guess then there's no truth in that, just because you say so, right Pride?
Got proof to back it up?
Pride, what the hell? It takes money to make money man. They sell their consoles at a loss so they can get it into more peoples homes, they make money on royalties by selling games. For every game sold, a certain portion of that money goes to Sony as a royalty for making the game on the console. That's why PC games can cost less money than Console games, they have no royalty fees to pay.SaiyanPrideXIX said:Here's one such idea that has been propagated by this forum and the very type of spinster "article" talk to which I am referring: Companies don't do this. Anywhere you've read this, it's a hypothetical crock of **** devised by some dubious mathematical guesswork from people who write propaganda pieces for piece of **** websites designed to do nothing more than to keep you coming back and seeing their stupid 5-bucks-per-hit banner ads. I will repeat this for any who don't understand: NO FACTUAL MATH HAS BEEN PRESENTED TO SUPPORT THIS IDEA. So rest easy about this. Trust me, man--this is capitalism at it's finest. Corporations don't do a damn thing unless the bottom line is in their favor.
I am banned, my opinion is at this point, irrelevant.SaiyanPrideXIX said:I didn't take anything back. All I said was that income from other products will balance that loss out until it becomes profitable -- just like the last two machines.
And yes, no company is that stupid. Do you honestly think they would take a gamble like that, especially right now, without having the ability to recover from it indefinitely? I'm not disagreeing with you that the PS3 will be built at a loss (though I can't help but feel the Nintendo Spinsters' Union has made it out to be much worse than it actually is) but there are many other factors in Sony's arsenal that can easily balance that out that we don't know about. Blu Ray licensing for movies, peripherals, other products...there will be plenty of money coming in. All the spinning and angles make it sound like they're going to break the bank to build the thing and it's going to cripple them, leave them dead in the water, when it just plain isn't.
As for the business docs, I know they are public domain and all but nobody has ever used them as a source when they start to go off about this stuff. They just spit out uneducated illogical numbers (which to your credit is NOT what you're doing) and cite some pro-Nintendo internet editorial as if it's gospel.