PS3 to make or break Sony forevermore

[wraggster]

More recycled analysis brought to you by Bloomberg. A key point to keep in mind: Sony predicts a 5-year recoup for losses due to the PS3's manufacturing costs and price point. That's going to hurt, especially since the average console life is around five years (a few exceptions noted). Masafumi Oshiden, from Merrill-Lynch, said "PlayStation 3 will be a huge money loser in the beginning." Spoken adequately enough. It's true -- we all know it's going to be very hard for Sony. Estimates show that about 200 billion yen was invested into the development of the cell processor alone.

Another point to keep in mind is the notion that "Sony's PlayStation 3 introduction in November may be hampered by fewer and less-powerful games because the company hasn't given final technical details of the new console, according to video-game publishers." So, is delivering 10,000 dev kits not going to cut it? Will IBM be able to pull better yields for the cell processor in time for the PS3 launch? If not, Sony won't even have the chance to recoup in five years -- they may pull the plug sooner than that, unless we give them our support.

[GeEkPiE]

personally, i want sony to fall

they never were a good games manufacturer and they only ever went far because they had so much money and game developers liked the format more because the CD disk was so easy and cheap to manufacture, they never made a good game themselves.

so many games developers, so many crappy games!

Nintendo rule forever.

originality

[Malksta]

SONY Must Live!!

[Napalm-Death]

Can't let Sony die.

[Accordion]

sony charity service coming soon

would you give just £60 a month to save this poor lonely corporation, they need your love
remember, just £60 a month and sony can live...
we need your help

[irongiant]

personally, i want sony to fall

they never were a good games manufacturer and they only ever went far because they had so much money and game developers liked the format more because the CD disk was so easy and cheap to manufacture, they never made a good game themselves.

so many games developers, so many crappy games!

Nintendo rule forever.

originality

Yes Nintendo how original. You do remember the gameboy and it's different incarnations and all the old NES and SNES games they continue to keep rehashing and selling to this day.

Sony were a breath of fresh air with the Playstation, it was playing WipEout , Resident Evil, Ridge Racer and Tekken that got me playing games again. They made gaming cool, having a techno soundtrack on WipEout was genius. Without Sony we're left with Nintendo and Microsoft.. do you really think that would be good?

[Accordion]

sony made gaming popular, they did a lot for the industry, gaming became attractive thanks to sony