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Sony Europe: PS3 Needs to Start Making Money

January 06, 2009 in News comments 19

Sony Europe boss David Reeves said that Sony needs to start turning a profit on its PlayStation 3 system. He believes that that is the top priority for the company.

In a posting on the official UK PlayStation website, David Reeves, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, said that the most important thing for the PlayStation 3 moving forward is that it “starts making money.”
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    Shiny Mew Jan 6, 09
    This is true, but Wii and PS2 are the only consoles actually making a profit at the moment, PS3 does need to start making profit, it's good enough to imo.
    • 0
      GrEyCrEsT Feb 19, 09
      quote Shiny Mew
      This is true, but Wii and PS2 are the only consoles actually making a profit at the moment, PS3 does need to start making profit, it's good enough to imo.


      • because ps3 started costly. They should have taught about that in general
  • 0
    Hunskelper Jan 6, 09
    Hang on, you need to make money to be a successful business?

    Let me just call the Department of the *bleep*ing Obvious, see if they're aware of this.
    • 0
      Koloth Jan 6, 09
      And yet despite how blatantly obvious that may be there are still people complaining that the PS3 is to expensive. All the while Sony continues to give them away.
      • 0
        Red 9 Jan 6, 09
        I've known that for ages. The price is perfectly reasonable considering the package. And even more obvious is the fact Sony is just a hair away from breaking into profits. I swear, I have never seen a time when a console was doubted so constantly.
      • 0
        Taker4ever Jan 7, 09
        Are Sony not making a profit on the Blu-Ray aspect though? I may be wrong, but don't they get some sort of profit from each Blu-Ray disc sold?
        • 1
          Slumpy monkey Jan 7, 09
          No they don't make money on every blu-ray disc sold. Nor do they own blu-ray.
  • 0
    Frazeb Jan 7, 09
    Compaies generally need money.
    • 0
      GrEyCrEsT Feb 19, 09
      quote Frazeb
      Compaies generally need money.


      • they do need it if nothing happen they go bankrupt
  • 0
    Revenger of Wastelan Jan 7, 09
    Price drop, anyone? I'm in.
    • 0
      Slumpy monkey Jan 7, 09
      They said make money, not lose money.
      • 0
        Revenger of Wastelan Jan 8, 09
        Price drop = more sales. Raising the price up won't promote sales as far as i know.
        • 0
          Koloth Jan 8, 09
          No one said anything about an increase. And more sales doesn't help you make money if your selling it for less than it cost to make. They have to bring the cost of production down a LOT before they can do a price drop and still make money.
        • 0
          Revenger of Wastelan Jan 8, 09
          Is making a PS3 that expensive? They might have done a wrong step even coming up with it so early.
        • 0
          Koloth Jan 8, 09
          Yes, it is that expensive. It still cost about $50 more than they sell it for. And when they released it in 06 it cost $200 more to make than they were selling it for at launch.

          And it wasn't the erong step. It was part of a larger strategy to win the video format war and sell more Blu-rays. Now that that's won actually making money on the PS3 becomes the priority.
        • 0
          Do0MStArS Feb 19, 09
          quote Revenger of Wastelan
          Price drop = more sales. Raising the price up won't promote sales as far as i know.
          its the other way around
    • 0
      Koloth Jan 7, 09
      Face palm, anyone? Didn't I already address that?
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        Hunskelper Jan 7, 09
        Nope, because face palm is overused and annoying.

        I do however agree with your sentiments (just not your wording).
        • 0
          Koloth Jan 8, 09
          Fair enough. I thought my wording was a bit more clever than actually posting one of the memes though.

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