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Nov. 19th, 2006
Amusing detail about the PS3
Nov. 19th, 2006 01:27 pmI'm not at all into consoles; I leave them to the Nazgul without any envy.
But as some clever IT editor calculated here, Sony is losing considerable money on each PS3 sold. [[Via Boocompany, which is in German, so it's not enough of a source for people here.]]
That's of course because people are going to blow enormous amounts of money on the games over time, and games cost almost nothing in physical production. Sony sells the hardware cheap to get people hooked, then leans back and watches the money roll in from the software.
So, let's consider that theoretically, somebody queued up all night to get one of the first PS3s in the US, and bunged the successful result onto eBay right away, where it sells for a considerable profit. And never buys any games for that particular physical PS3 in their life, even though they might buy another PS§ to play on later, and buy games for that - that calculation is about the loss on each single physical unit produced.
Well, they ought to stick a 'Sponsored by Sony' sticker on whatever they acquire from the profits. Or they might want to wear a Sony company logo tee-shirt on their trip to Muuminlaakso or whatever event they buy tickets to for with the money.
Purely hypothetically speaking, of course. If somebody were actually to do such a thing...
But as some clever IT editor calculated here, Sony is losing considerable money on each PS3 sold. [[Via Boocompany, which is in German, so it's not enough of a source for people here.]]
That's of course because people are going to blow enormous amounts of money on the games over time, and games cost almost nothing in physical production. Sony sells the hardware cheap to get people hooked, then leans back and watches the money roll in from the software.
So, let's consider that theoretically, somebody queued up all night to get one of the first PS3s in the US, and bunged the successful result onto eBay right away, where it sells for a considerable profit. And never buys any games for that particular physical PS3 in their life, even though they might buy another PS§ to play on later, and buy games for that - that calculation is about the loss on each single physical unit produced.
Well, they ought to stick a 'Sponsored by Sony' sticker on whatever they acquire from the profits. Or they might want to wear a Sony company logo tee-shirt on their trip to Muuminlaakso or whatever event they buy tickets to for with the money.
Purely hypothetically speaking, of course. If somebody were actually to do such a thing...