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Title: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: Mario on February 16, 2006, 09:12:07 PM: http://www.digitimes.com/systems/a20060216PR206.html

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Sony expects to ship over 100 million PlayStation 3 (PS3) game consoles globally this year, according to Tetsuhiko Yasuda, Sony Computer Entertainment Asia’s corporate executive managing director and senior vice president of Asia. He also said Sony may work with Microsoft in the future.

It's all over for Nintendo now.
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: ShyGuy on February 16, 2006, 09:15:02 PM: Yes but that pales to the 1 billion people who will own an Xbox 360!
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: Stimutacs Addict on February 16, 2006, 09:15:27 PM: edit: i got beat to the 360 remark!

honestly though, How the frig do they expect people to believe this? Unless they start producing finalized units RIGHT NOW, they'd never produce that many this year
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: King of Twitch on February 16, 2006, 09:44:39 PM: If they make them as reliable as the PS2, it shouldn't be difficult!
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: Mario on February 17, 2006, 03:02:18 AM: Aww, they edited it!
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: Pale on February 17, 2006, 03:17:56 AM: Oh yeah? Well Nintendo is going to ship over 7 quadrillion Revs!
Title: RE:100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: Sir_Stabbalot on February 17, 2006, 05:12:42 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: Pale
Oh yeah? Well Nintendo is going to ship over 7 quadrillion Revs!

7 quadrillion? Bah, they're going for a Googleplex!
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: UncleBob on February 17, 2006, 05:26:50 AM: Geese, you all act like Nintendo can actually do something right.

Nintendo is going to ship one. Period.

Everyone go to your local Wal*Mart at midnight and see if your store was the lucky one.
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: KDR_11k on February 17, 2006, 05:55:44 AM: Sir_Stabbalot: Google is a search engine. Googol is the number.
Title: RE:100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: JonLeung on February 17, 2006, 08:34:47 AM: They edited the article and removed the "this year" part. The article says they sold approximately that number of the PlayStation and PS2 so basically Sony's expecting things to be the same this time around. It's still arrogant, though.

And why do they want to work with Microsoft anyway? I did hear of some PSP-Xbox 360 connectivity...
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: jasonditz on February 17, 2006, 09:17:05 AM: I'd think you'd be more likely to see 360-DS connectivity since Microsoft claims not to see Nintendo as a threat.

You might actually be able to do something cool with the DS version of MechAssault and a 360 version.
Title: RE:100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: Smash_Brother on February 17, 2006, 10:36:35 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: jasonditz
You might actually be able to do something cool with the DS version of MechAssault and a 360 version.

Like substitute the DS for the $280 controller?

On the subject, Sony can do this: they said SHIP 100 million PS3s, not SELL.
Title: RE:100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: IceCold on February 17, 2006, 01:18:26 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: UncleBob
Geese, you all act like Nintendo can actually do something right.

Nintendo is going to ship one. Period.

Everyone go to your local Wal*Mart at midnight and see if your store was the lucky one.
Golden Tickets!
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: Talon on February 17, 2006, 04:43:37 PM: I heard Nintendo will also be giving away a life times supply of chocolate away as well to the lucky finders of the golden tickets
Title: RE:100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: Sir_Stabbalot on February 19, 2006, 03:36:45 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: KDR_11k
Sir_Stabbalot: Google is a search engine. Googol is the number.

...I see.
Title: RE:100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: MaryJane on February 22, 2006, 07:45:25 AM: If I win the lottery I might have enough to buy a ps3. They should change it to 100mil and 1.
Title: RE:100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: JonLeung on February 22, 2006, 09:00:17 AM: If it really costs around $900 to make, and they probably won't charge more than $500 for them, they're losing $400 on each one.

If manufacturing costs don't go down by the time they sell that many, assuming they can sell that many to begin with, then they lose:
$400 x 100 million = $40,000,000,000.

40 billion dollars lost. Sheesh. If they made all their own games, and reaped a full $50 from each one...:
$40,000,000,000 / $50 = 800,000,000.

That means eight games per PS3 sold, just to break even. But they don't make all their own games, so I don't think they can reap a full $50 from each game, and even if they somehow could, selling 800 million isn't easy. Games have enough trouble breaking a million...who can make 800 "million-sellers"? Or 1600 "half-million-sellers"?

Talk about ridiculous. I suppose if they did sell many, manufacturing costs would go down over time, but still.
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: KDR_11k on February 22, 2006, 09:05:13 AM: JonLeung: I'd say the assumption that 900$ is nonsense is much more likely than Sony taking such a huge loss.
Title: RE:100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: JonLeung on February 22, 2006, 02:02:16 PM: Okay, let's say they lose $100 on each console. It's still a lot, and I don't see how they expect to profit.
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: Caliban on February 22, 2006, 02:23:59 PM: Recently Sony has found a portal to Leprechaun Land where gold is in abundance and easy to steal. See, Sony always has a solution.
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on February 22, 2006, 02:26:15 PM: They make profit by laying off thousands more workers worldwide. They never seem to cut back on products/technology, yet I often hear about job losses.
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: Caliban on February 22, 2006, 02:30:28 PM: Actually they did stop producing those robotic dogs (can't remember what they are called), I read it in the buisness section of the Toronto Star.
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: BigJim on February 22, 2006, 02:36:20 PM: They've lost around $100 on each PS1 and PS2 at launch and still eventually profitted after a year or so... I think it was 18 months for PS2. Something like that.
Title: RE:100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: MaryJane on February 22, 2006, 03:17:49 PM: if i remember correctly and i believe i do (but i could be wrong) they only recently started making money on ps2 like less than a yr ago, maybe even less than 6 months. 2005 is kind of hazy for me.
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: KDR_11k on February 22, 2006, 08:35:55 PM: 2005 is kind of hazy for me.

Is that related to your username?
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: BigJim on February 22, 2006, 09:01:57 PM: " if i remember correctly and i believe i do (but i could be wrong) they only recently started making money on ps2 like less than a yr ago, maybe even less than 6 months. 2005 is kind of hazy for me. "

Are you referring to the console itself? I meant the PS2 business on the whole.
Title: RE:100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: MaryJane on February 23, 2006, 05:46:02 AM: yes to both =).
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: stevey on February 23, 2006, 12:26:23 PM: "100 Million PS3's in 2006"

how if they wont come out till 07
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: KDR_11k on February 24, 2006, 12:07:01 AM: See? It's so great it'll sell 100 milliard units before it's even released!
Title: RE:100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: IceCold on February 24, 2006, 07:02:39 PM: Billion?
Title: RE: 100 Million PS3's in 2006
Post by: KDR_11k on February 24, 2006, 09:56:13 PM: Come on, Sony loves to give conservative estimates. We all know it'll sell at least 100 milliards, maybe even a billion! Everyone will buy enough PS3s to build a house out of them!