Playstation Meeting later tonight/early tomorrow (PS3 info almost guaranteed)

Read nearly every market analyst and financial institutions take on Sony. Something close to 70% of Sony's revenue comes from game/console sales (over 100,000,000 PS2s were sold) while Microsoft has this little thing called Windows that is in over 90% of PCs across the globe to keep them afloat. Sony's electronics sales are WAY down over the past 15 years due to competition and the Playstation is easily their number one cash-cow. The amount of different products they make has nothing to do with the companies diversity... you also mention Sony makes "different electronics" for different sectors while you simply lump Microsoft's software sales into one huge "computer software" even though they make every different software for every walk of life and left off their mega-billions internet ventures. Failure of the PS3 would hurt Sony far more then failure of the 360 would hurt Microsoft.

 

So you beleive all the other departments of Sony would go out of business if the PS3 fails?

 

No, but it would severly hurt their business because 70%-ish of their revenue comes from their gaming division which supports the divisions of the company. Microsoft's software/os division supports it's gaming division which is the opposite of what can be said for Sony. The PS3 isn't going to fail, I've never said that but it is going to allow Microsoft to close the gap in the console race... and in my opinion them taking so long to release the PS3 is a huge mistake because it just gives Microsoft an even bigger head start and an even bigger piece of the console pie. I'm not nieve enough to think that the 360 is going to outsell the PS3 but I also know that Microsoft will be extremely happy with the number of 360s that will be sold by the time the PS3 rolls around, and Microsoft's current structure will allow them to sell the 360 for far less then the PS3 for quite a while.

 

While gaming has gone well, Sony's core consumer electronics business has been in the toilet for the last 5 years or so as other younger, cheaper competitors (Samsung, LG, etc) have put the squeeze on them - this is pretty old news. The difference is that Sony's video game business is what's keeping them relevant, if that goes away they are in severe trouble (one could (and many have) argue that they're in trouble anyway). Whereas with Microsoft - the video game division represents a small, not very proftable component of their overall business - which is hugely profitable otherwise.

So you can argue that Microsoft and Sony are both diverse - the difference is that the 'diverse' parts of MS make a truckload more $$$.

 

I agree. I also find it funny that these anti-Sony/pro MS people keep saying that its just a video game and that its pointless to argue over it, yet they're the one thats getting their feelings hurts and they feel the need to respond/counter RC's post every chance they can get.Umm...if you didn't care, why post at all? If you didn't care, why the need to let him know that he's full of it? I sense somebody hit a nerve.Good for him that he likes Sony. Whether you agree with him or not, at least he takes the time to back up his argument with informative information. Sure, those info could be false or untrue, but hey, at least its something there to talk about and its up to you guys to prove him wrong, which most of you failed to do and then go in another direction by making fun of him and his "cut and past" which kinda derailed these topics. Mmm, I wonder who win the argument? Yea, I don't blame him for not wanting post in this thread any longer, since its obviously way off track and its only gonna get worst.

Hate him or love him, you have to respect the guy for being one of the few(very few) people that post every current news available for the video game lovers like myself who owns a 360,PS2 and a PSP. I just can't imagine, how boring it would get sometimes in Hangout without a little refreshing video game news and topics.

 

What’s Holding Up PlayStation 3?
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The delay also gives Microsoft time to work out manufacturing difficulties it experienced with its global rollout of the Xbox 360 last year. Microsoft had difficulties meeting demand for Xbox, and in February announced it had added a third manufacturing partner to increase production.

Microsoft's pinched supply line could foreshadow troubles for Sony. In anticipation of the PlayStation 3's worldwide release, Sony promises a manufacturing schedule of one million PlayStations 3's per month. But reports suggest that the cause of the delay is the Blu-Ray disc drive at the heart of the console. Blu-Ray was designed by Sony—along with Philips, Panasonic, Samsung, Pioneer and others—as a high-definition successor to the DVD, but the first Blu-Ray player has yet to hit the market, and is rumored to be difficult to manufacture.

Still, most companies planning to launch Blu-Ray players and PC drives say they are on target for a mid-2006 launch. Today, Sony's U.S. consumer-electronics division announced that its first Blu-Ray player, the BDP-S1, should ship in July, priced at $1,000. Blu-Ray drives for its VAIO PCs should also be available around that same time.

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Microsoft smells blood...

 

That press release by MS is an attempt to deflect attention from their 360 shortages that would've definitely crippled Sony if MS brought out enough units.

There's no doubt the Revolution will do better than the 360 in Japan (the Gamecube is selling better than the 360 in the weeklys), but like the N64 and Cube, Japanese gamers will consider them as children's toys with the occasional must play game.

The games that will follow will be different between the two systems, whereas the 360 would've had games that are most similar to the PS3s...