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Sony to sell PlayStation Vita for a loss, Profitable within 3yrs
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It will be an huge mistake, they have to concentrate on PS4, if vita can't sell at a profitable price they have to prune the dead branch. They better invest on games than losing money selling hw.
Vita wasn't supposed to sell as much as psp anyway... only the 3ds can survive at least in this gen.
Vita wasn't supposed to sell as much as psp anyway... only the 3ds can survive at least in this gen.
McHuj
Member
I wonder how the sales have impacted this projection. Assuming that the original 3 years to profitability was not total bullshit, it would have been based on decent sales projections. With sales what they are, is Sony looking at a longer time to profitability? At what point do you decide it's not worth it, and cut your losses on a bad investment?
Wait, the Nexus 7 is more powerful than the Vita in every respect. Vita's advantage (like you said) is that it's a dedicated platform.
its advantage is due to the R&D $$$ they put into it to make it dedicated platform, it didnt fall from the sky.
legacyzero
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Damn, junior necro-bumped this thread. It died a more than a year ago 
weird.
weird.
What does R&D have to do with being a dedicated platform? You think there's no R&D investment for devices like the Nexus 7? Being a dedicated platform just means the specs don't change.
But on the other hand, who cares.Damn, junior necro-bumped this thread. It died a more than a year ago
weird.
I do, as I genuinely agree that Sony has made serious steps in the right direction in pretty much every way possible.
Hard Facts:
Sony
PSN is actually amazingly less of a nightmare to navigate than XBL
Sony are still in the off-kilter marquee IP investments
PS+ is totally sweet
MS
XBL is a nightmare
Stagnating in a lack of new IP swamp
Gold sub. is like trying to justify why you'd want to gild a puddle of dogs diarrhoea.
Why are you comparing MS to Sony in a thread about handhelds?
You dont get it, by obsolete I'm not saying it wont be able to compete anymore, but that by then the components will be dirt cheap, just like bargain bin phones today outclass the iphones from 3 years ago.
Why is sony losing money on this? I can't think of any components that are expensive enough, the screen is already inferior to last year's galaxy note and the exynos chip is in most new samsung phones so its in full production which means costs are lower.
What is it then? the custom carts?
PS: sorry for the bump I saw the link in a new thread and I didn't think it was that old.
Why is sony losing money on this? I can't think of any components that are expensive enough, the screen is already inferior to last year's galaxy note and the exynos chip is in most new samsung phones so its in full production which means costs are lower.
What is it then? the custom carts?
PS: sorry for the bump I saw the link in a new thread and I didn't think it was that old.
Have you no sense of justice? Sony is being subtly slandered by some junior! He has to stand up for what's right!
Because if you reduce the sauce, it boils down to creativity.
Baconsammy
Banned
No need to compound the stupidity of bumping the thread by posting this idiocy.
Stop.
Wyndstryker
Member
Just cause a part is obsolete doesn't mean it's still cheap. The value also depends on the supply of the parts as well as if they're still being manufactured. Any part that becomes obsolete and scarce requires logistics manufacturing it instead of just buying it off the market cheap.
A rough example is like with old WWII aircraft restoration. They're obsolete, the parts were manufactured like crazy back in the day, but they're super hard to get hands on these days due to super lack of supply and no manufacturing so the price tags on the parts are crazy.
There is no Exynos chip inside the Vita, it's using a ARM Cortex A9 with SGX543, while the S3 uses a ARM Cortex A9 with a Mali-400MP GPU. So it's not in full production. Compared to the S3, which sold more than 20 million units in 3 months time. However the Vita chip is being produced by Samsung.
legacyzero
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Mushroomer25
Member
Good God. Who in the world told Sony this thing was a good idea? How in the world could any company release a product so blatantly misguided?
This is just like, what? What has this got to do with anything other than trolling. And it's all your (obviously) bias opinion anyway. Go away
Tell us more about this sauce.
Well that answers my question...
It's basically well balanced. You counteract the sour taste with a touch of sugar.
Well, to be specific, the Vita has a quad-core Sony-specific variant of the SGX543 called the SGX543MP4+. Very similar GPU to the new iPad, although the new iPad uses that same GPU to push something like over 4 times the amount of pixels that the Vita has (maybe well over that; can't remember exactly), as well as the Vita having an additional 128mb dedicated VRAM.
Yeah you're right, the NAND is 100% samsung not the CPU, my bad
I don't even know what's that supposed to mean. Vita was not aimed for iphone users at all from the very start.
not_so_special
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psp was a awesome system
Krappadizzle
Member
Let's hope they're around. Competition drives the industry. 360 has been my go to console this gen, but I wouldn't want just that as the only next gen option.
sony, a company about creativity.
i don´t get why you talked about ps+ and psn then in the first place, but nevermind
Delusibeta
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Multiple threads colliding in this zombie thread. I personally think this thread should be locked.
CambriaRising
Member
This necro-bump is really baffling. It isn't even 3 years later yet. lol
Darko
Member
same... it needs to drop to $200 and soon.