Sony's Game Division Back to Making a Profit!

yeah I saw that earlier. Good for them making a slight comeback. I really liked the changes I saw in the latter half of the year and their marketting strategy

 

Good for them. I still think they'll come in 3rd by 2010, but hopefully ps3 won't turn out to be their Saturn now.

 

What's hilarious is that the PS3 sold more units than the 360 in 2007 without any super AAA titles. That's a damn shame.

http://www.n4g.com/industrynews/News-106357.aspx
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6185395...stnews;title;3

 

It had plenty of hyped all to hell games. Only Uncharted actually turned out to be good, but it had about 5 "advertised as AAA for more than a year now" type games.

 

The link that I provided details the numbers Sony posted. For right now, I'll remain skeptical of them actually selling more than MS. But...I think it IS safe to say that they did better than expected. Fair?



And yeah, Ratchet and Uncharted were the only exclusive AAAs. Uncharted is at 1 million now, so it looks like it has some legs...but games like that don't sell much regularly.

 

"Sold" has a different meaning to Sony than it does to you or me or any other company for that matter. To them "sold" means "we sent it to a store" not "a consumer has purchased our product." And yeah, they definietly "sold" more by there definition than Xbox did. I have about 30 PS3s sitting in the TRU back room right now, as opposed to the 4 Xboxs I have, cause people actually buy them, and they send us more when we run out.

 

Microsoft does the same thing for their sold financial satements, it would make no sense for either of the to list 'sold through to customer' in a financial report, when all they get the money from is sold toretailers. Though keep in mind the PS3 has been outsellin the 360 in Europe by around 2 to 1, and majorly outselling it in Japan. America is the only region tht's lagging, and while they undoubtedly stuffed the channel, no moe than Microsoft last year tor each their 10 million 'sold' figure.

 

I love it that when there's the slightest bit of news that works for Sony, someone has to rush in and twist it in some way to satisfy themselves. :

 

thats bc people are haters. They cant stand to see Sony do anything good. You see its the same players all the time, who lurk around here just waiting to do just that

 

I would have to agree that the trolls are pretty lame. SOny is going to do great in 2008, like it or not, they've done an incredible job of managing cost reduction for the PS3, an unbelievable job in fact, and they've now won the HD format war, the company as a whole is expected to make something like 3 billion dollars even with the year overall lose of the PS3 devision. Not to mention that the PS3 has been otselling the 360 worldwide.
Deal. with. it. You don't see any of us going into the Microsoft secton and *****ing it up with being spiteful trolls.

 

Somehow I doubt that.

 

Answer me this Sony fanboys, why do you like so much a company that sucks so hard?
Before calling me troll, Xbot or whatever, this is not the case.
I can´t care less about the 360 right now, not am i here to start a flame war.
My question is legit, why do you like Sony so much, when the company has no respect for you, the consumer?

And before anyone makes me the same question, why i love Microsoft...i don´t, just don´t have anything against them, Microsoft never shown disrespect like Sony does.
And before anyone say "Red Ring of Death", hardware failures is not being disrespectful.

 

Have fun being insane... :gray:

 

Uh, well...

 

You've got nothing on the scale of what you guys do daily.

I'd love to see Isildur´s Heir actually elaborate on what he just said, because it's pretty absurd.

 

No it´s not.
Here, copy and paste from my post of the misc forum

 

I don't like Sony so much, I just like me Playstation 3 damnit!

 

Your complaining about freaking localization lead times and the separate groups in charge of each PS store deciding to release their content at different times?!

I thought you'd have something a little more substantial.... sort of disappointing, really.

Hardware failures aren't disrespect? Realy? Reaaallyyy?

Let's talk about how knowingly pushing an unreliable console out to market, with what was a 30+ percent failure rate, and only announcing a big fix it because they was a class action lawsuit coming down on them. How about locking in the system and charging absurd amounts of money for proprietary add ons, and structuring the console setup in a way to encourage the exploitation of the consumer base, isn't disrespectful.

Let's talk about how Sony canned Ken K over the costs of the PS3, or how the PS3 has build quality second only to the Wii, I mean it doesn't show respect at all that they tried to make the PS3 as reliable as possible. Or how they haven't locked in the add ons to proprietary overpriced pieces of junk just to make more money off the consumer. Or how they're putting up all that content on PSN free of charge, and Microsoft charges you a monthly fee for P2P Matchmaking... and doesn't even give you any dedicated servers.

Really, let's talk...



Really the best company is probably Nintendo, but even they are charging more money at retail than it takes for them to make a Wii, and typically respond to a hot product by finding a way that they can strip something out of it to make little big more money.

In fact no one has spent more R&D than Sony on figuring out ways to improve their fabrication processes and reduce component costs.

 

I hate all of you.

 

One of us one of us one of us...

 

Can't you see?! This family is being torn apart!

 

I have little to no knownledge o Nintendo consumer policy to even talk about that.

Arrogant...yes they are....extremely.

Sending shoddy hardware is not being disrespectuful, is just a bad move to try and have a lead in the upcoming "war".
Sure, it was fricking bad, but i´m sure it wasn´t meant to be, i´m sure MS didn´t realized the problems the hardware had, because it makes to sense for someone to sent out, willingly, something that will bite them in the ass later
The RROD issue being denied at first was a way to try to have their ass, but, after that, they even extanded the warranty.