Slowing PS2 Dents Sony Profits

Thanks to BBC News for their article discussing the fall in Sony's quarterly profit by 25 percent, blamed partially on "feeble sales in many products - most notably games hardware." The article points out: "Sony's game division, which produces both hardware and software for games, saw its sales fall to 161bn yen in the third quarter, from 250bn yen a year earlier", and a Reuters article adds analysis, pointing out the 91 percent operating profit reduction was partly down to "...additional research and development cost for next-generation microchips", as Sony ramp up R+D for the PlayStation 3. But although an analyst commented that "...the game division was hit harder than we had anticipated", the company will still be making a nearly $1 billion overall profit for the year, with PS2 by far the most popular, currently best-selling worldwide console.

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Hello. I was an early Adoptor.

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But, seeing the way sega treated the dreamcast really pissed me off. So I held back. I wanted to see if the xbox came with some sort of PVR function. After all, everyone knows it's microsofts dream to own the box that controls everyones tv, providing one embedded os, for one network, where they are the one information provider. Everyone knew that the xbox was phase one, followed by ???, and ultimately profit! But it didn't, and by then the choice was a little tricky. So while I prefer the xbox controller, and for the most part it's games, I've heard about the formerly rumor PSX. Who knows when that will make it to the states? And where xbox 2 and PS 3 will be by then?