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Originally Posted by afa
I don't think they have done too bad in gaming, actually.
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From a business management point of view, the PS3 is a disaster of biblical proportions; specifically, how Kutaragi totally ignored the economic parameters senior management had laid out, went rogue without authority, and *shipped* 4 million PS3 that cost 50% more to build than it was supposed to. There's a reason he was (japanese-style) fired.
http://www.dailytech.com/Sonys+Ken+K...rticle7078.htm
He cost the company a cool billion in losses in the first year and another four since. To say nothing of blowing an entire gaming generation.
PS3 should have been a gold mine for Sony; instead, after 5 years they are barely breaking even on the hardware and still in the hole life-cycle wise. And that is after four waves of feature-reduction redesigns. A classic case of gold-plating and bad design management.
The issue isn't how much hardware they've managed to ship, but what it *cost* to get that far. And the lost market share, mindshare, and developer commitments.