Give sony some credit here. They built a machine with an incredibly new, yet promising, processor and a new drive (blue laser diode) that had yet to see much mainstream production, and creating a machine that the unofficial estimate pointed at ~850$ for the original 60gb console. Now they are selling the 40gb console, only just a little more than a year after its release at cost (~$400). this is no small feat on sony's end either.
Not to mention that Sony took a huge gamble including a bluray drive in their system, that has proven it will payoff now that HDDVD is slowing bleeding to death. I really hope the cell processor takes off too. For how cheap the processor is (Sony's cost is less than 100$), the first commercial prototype for the HDTV that Toshiba showed of at CES had nothing but endless praise for its visual quality and amazing features that the little processor (running at half the cores that a ps3 does) could produce.
Sony really did put them both on the table, and give them three years, and I bet they'll take microsofts quarter.
because the article is more about microsoft finally turning a profit on their gaming division, which ended with "How about you Sony?" Sony is making much better progress toward having a profitable gaming division in only one year compared with microsoft's 2 years. However Sony also also has substantial losses from subsizing earlier models of the ps3 as well as the raw development costs of the cell processor.
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Give sony some credit here. They built a machine with an incredibly new, yet promising, processor and a new drive (blue laser diode) that had yet to see much mainstream production, and creating a machine that the unofficial estimate pointed at ~850$ for the original 60gb console. Now they are selling the 40gb console, only just a little more than a year after its release at cost (~$400). this is no small feat on sony's end either.
Not to mention that Sony took a huge gamble including a bluray drive in their system, that has proven it will payoff now that HDDVD is slowing bleeding to death. I really hope the cell processor takes off too. For how cheap the processor is (Sony's cost is less than 100$), the first commercial prototype for the HDTV that Toshiba showed of at CES had nothing but endless praise for its visual quality and amazing features that the little processor (running at half the cores that a ps3 does) could produce.
Sony really did put them both on the table, and give them three years, and I bet they'll take microsofts quarter.
Finally, someone whos sounds like they kno what thier talking about.
Why in the world would you talk about the ps3 in a post about quarterly earnings?
Nobody cares.
because the article is more about microsoft finally turning a profit on their gaming division, which ended with "How about you Sony?" Sony is making much better progress toward having a profitable gaming division in only one year compared with microsoft's 2 years. However Sony also also has substantial losses from subsizing earlier models of the ps3 as well as the raw development costs of the cell processor.