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Originally posted by Bucky@Sep 8 2007, 11:08 PM
The stock offering was used to fund both the Bravia and the Playstation division.
As for MS losing 6B, that sounds like a made up stat, linky please.
Sony is not "Doing fine" with the PSP and PS2. The PS2 is one of their sales leaders. Having a console that has no marketing or new game production outselling your lead console is really the whole story. Sony's Playstation division is in serious trouble here.
And if what you are telling me about them staking their claim on these 3 titles being their console sellers, then they really missed the bus with not getting them out the door until almost a full year after the console's release. Not to mention they are going into another Christmas season being out in the cold with sales, meaning they fall further behind in the race to get the install base in place.
Personally, I think they are already past the point of no return, and the PS3 is currently undergoing its death rattle.
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No, that was corrected afterwards. Wrong news brought to life by a 360 fanboy site. Sony purchased a factory together with Toshiba and they are both producing their lcd screens there (yes, the same Toshiba they are at hd war with)
Linky financial year 2007 Linky financial year 2006 and look up the rest of the financial figures yourself. With the original Xbox included the total loss actually came out around 8.5 billion. The 2 links I gave you already put the figures above 4 billion, have fun googling for the rest of the bad bad figures. I had
The PS2 is outselling the PS3 because it's cheap and the number of games are awesome and well priced these days. Just for reference, even without all the cool games you are supposedly missing the ps3's launch data is exactly aligned with the 360's.
Linky (they are so perfectly aligned the blue and green lines are basicly on top of each other)
The PSP figures are excellent and the new slim package is making a huge sales boost on a hand-held I personally had given up ages ago. For reverence, the psp has sold more units then the original xbox
Didn't gears of war, MS's killer title get released a full year after the release of the 360's and Halo still isn't released. Sony hasn't fallen behind in the race yet as the figures describe so I have no worries of them falling behind. If you want to cast doom on a console you might wan't to check out the lighted by the tree red lights of death 360, that one is a sure bet unless you think the shareholders are going to agree to making another money losing product soon.
Edit: actually review don't affect sales that much in the gaming world. Just 2-3%, not more. Gamers buy out of emotion and the quality of trailers affect them way more then a review does. Also, trusting a review from IGN is idiotic and especially when it's written by the posterboy for geekyness.