Las Vegas, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Sony Computer Entertainment chief executive Kaz Hirai said late on Sunday at the Consumer Electronics Show that he hopes to turn a profit on the PlayStation 3 console business in the next fiscal year, fueled in part by falling costs for the parts used to make the device.
Great games, which draw consumers to buy the console, matched with declining component prices will hopefully lead to profitability for the PS3 and the company's gaming division overall, Hirai said.
(Reporting by Franklin Paul; Editing by Paul Bolding)
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Actually Ryan Gosling makes a ton of sense.
Edit: If this can be done in a Scott Pilgrim movie kind of way that would be dope.
The Opening Levels that hooked gamers from the outset.
i think it will go fast the price of ps3, now that blue ray is next gen HD format and the main reason for the high price was blue ray so every thing will go cheaper by monthly bases, i can smell $300 ps3 by this year fall!
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look i know that!! but blue ray prices got decreased so much since ps3 launch i remember it was $1000 and now $300, also the CPU's and graphic cards got reduced a lot since ps3 launch, i have a feeling sony now not losing more than $100 per ps3 40GB model and even less for the 80GB!
and with the things happened in the HD world it will only make the blue ray component cheaper in faster rate than 2007, so they should be comfortable to make it $300 by the years end!
and wii is a gamecube 1.0001 with wii mote thats is so its obvious nintendo making profit from that cheap console!! i only wish they made it like gamecube 1.5 or something but not 1.000000001
Hmmm...maybe a PS3 cost cut is on the cards after all.
well good luck to them, price cuts are good for everyone.
Hirai-san is not a stupid man. Yes the hardware costs of the design are expensive, but the PS3 hardware is as PC hardware; given a bit of time the cost comes down. I remember last year I bought an Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz CPU for my PC for 325 dollars. This year I upgraded to a Core 2 Duo E6850 which is factory rated at 3.0 GHz for less than 300. The costs come down. When they do, companies profit.
Profit within 2 years? thats a bold statement and something M$ can only dream about, after their whole RROD problem the 360 will be lucky to ever turn a profit.
The PS3 was more a way to get Blu-Ray into the mainstream, if it works, Sony will be laughing all the way to the bank!