Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’::Sony has cut its sales forecast by 4 million units for the fiscal year, down from 25 million to 21 million. It comes as the company missed its sales projections by a million.

  • Fisch@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    As far as I know they already lose money selling them because they make way more money through PS plus and the PS store

      • Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        This is only half true. They are loss leaders early in their lifecycle, but almost (looking at you PS3) always profitable 2-3 years into production due to paying down initial costs of production and efficiencies developed during production.