Re:The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken
by squeaky-clean on Monday October 03, 2022 @02:26PM
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PS4 units were profitable to sell after roughly a year
https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2014/5/23/5744344/ps4-a...
> From a profitability perspective, PS4 is also already contributing profit on a hardware unit basis, establishing a very different business framework from that of previous platform businesses.
Re:The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken
by somenameforme on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:29PM
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They've been selling them at profit since the middle of last year [1], following the trend set the previous gen of consoles making profit on hardware in less than a year. Things in gaming, both in terms of prices and how consoles approach the business, has changed quite radically in the past ~decade.
[1] - https://www.pcmag.com/news/sony-says-499-ps5-no-longer-sells...
This is completely false. They just did a die shrink to make the CPU/GPU cheaper.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/playstation-5-refresh-boas...
No one, not even Sony, can build PS5-class hardware and sell it at a profit for $500 at retail... not at launch time, and not on the last day of the product life cycle. Attach rate isn't everything in the console business, it's the only thing.