sega made the units too expensive to produceso when the price had to drop as they all do eventually they were making a loss on every unit they made.
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Tue 21 Jan 2003, 23:27,
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And when you release your hardware,and your primary competitor instantly announces a new machine that will be 10 times better, you're pretty much fucked from then on.
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Tue 21 Jan 2003, 23:34,
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But that's true of many consolesI thought I'd heard that even to this day the PSX/PS1 hasn't made any money itself, just through software sales...?
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JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks,
Tue 21 Jan 2003, 23:37,
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Every console is sold at a lost,all the money is made through software. Look hour much cash Microsoft are shedding at the moment, they don`t predict a profit on the XBox for several years.
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Tue 21 Jan 2003, 23:39,
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Last I heard,they weren't predicting a profit from the console at all. Something I read said that they were only using it as a means to gain a foothold in the market and would start profiting from it on the next one.
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Tue 21 Jan 2003, 23:41,
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Aboutthe same number of sales they got for it, isn't that?
( Herr Tezcat,
Tue 21 Jan 2003, 23:27,
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