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sega made the units too expensive to produce

so 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, archived)

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.

(goat thinks you're shit, Tue 21 Jan 2003, 23:34, archived)

But that's true of many consoles

I 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, archived)

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.

(Dr Wadd, Tue 21 Jan 2003, 23:39, archived)

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.

(goat thinks you're shit, Tue 21 Jan 2003, 23:41, archived)