{"id":4574,"date":"2008-06-23T20:07:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T03:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4574"},"modified":"2013-03-13T20:13:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T03:13:52","slug":"ps3-burns-3-3-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/ps3-burns-3-3-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"PS3 Burns $3.3 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6195\" alt=\"Yen on fire-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/Yen-on-fire-S.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" \/>JUNE 23, 2008 \u2022 Since its 2006 launch, Sony reported to the SEC that the PlayStation 3 has cost the consumer electronics manufacturer $3.3 billion (\u00a5316.3 billion). Worldwide sales to date of the console are approximately 13 million. In related news, the company has signed up 9.8 million PS3 and PSP subscribers to the PlayStation Network, and that it will launch a movie download service in the U.S. during the summer.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Impact:\u00a0 It is going to be hard for Sony to make a profit on the PS3.\u00a0 In its peak year, the PS2 earned Sony about $1 billion in operating income.\u00a0 The PS3 is not supposed to do nearly as well.\u00a0 Sony has talked about a 10-year lifecycle for the PS3.\u00a0 Even in that time frame the system may be hard pressed to turn a profit.\u00a0 On the other hand, the PS3 seems to have negated much of the lead the Xbox 360 had in online game services.\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">We still have doubts about whether PlayStation Home will ever see the light of day, but in terms of online functionality, it is hard to tell the difference between the two systems.<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 23, 2008 \u2022 Since its 2006 launch, Sony reported to the SEC that the PlayStation 3 has cost the consumer electronics manufacturer $3.3 billion (\u00a5316.3 billion). Worldwide sales to date of the console are approximately 13 million. In related news, the company has signed up 9.8 million PS3 and PSP subscribers to the PlayStation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6194,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions\/6194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}