Their gaming unit. Sony as a whole company posted a profit.SpruceCaboose

That's what's implied, we're in system wars.Which, doesn't bold well for their current console the PS3. Maybe, it's because their planning to send some kick backs to to some developers that were already off the fence with Sony's game division. Begging and pleading is meaningless if there isn't some hard cash to help your catch a response.

One-Hundred-Billion-Yen. /strokes Siamese Bigglesworth

"The latest round of financial results for Sony didn't paint the games unit in the warmest, prettiest light. Next time around, though, it might be even worse. Sony announced today that they've doubled the projected losses for the games unit for the financial year (ending in March), the original estimate of a loss of ¥50 billion chucked out and replaced with an estimated loss of ¥100 billion. No reason was given for the rewrite, but the ¥126 billion they lost during the first half of the financial year probably had something to do with it."

A storm is coming!

http://kotaku.com/gaming/sony/sony-predicts-games-unit-losses-will-double-316085.php

[QUOTE="Vectoin"][QUOTE="SolidSnake35"][QUOTE="cakeorrdeath"]

Tread makes n sense:?

What mystical consoles can change there operating systems. And since when did I HAVE to use vista. I'm not even using vista. :shock:

SolidSnake35

There's one issue that have come up; the PS3's blu-ray capabilities. Many instances fans have praised the integration of blu-ray to video games. Given that it has a higher capacity. Though, many cannot deny the flas in it's make and mechanisms of functioning. Blu-ray requires hardware cache, to improve load times being one. Having said that there's another reason Blu-ray would be an undesirable feature for developers.

Blu-ray is a relatively new format and has a long ways away to become the universal format. With the competition heating up with HD-Dvds there's no sign of when a new format king would be crowned. Currently, the DvD is the much prefered format by distributors, consumers, and users. The Dvd has the technology and the manufacturing tools smoothed to efficiency. Taken those factors into mind, you'll realize Blu-Ray is a hefty price compared to the DVD.

So where does this factor in with devs on the PS3? I'm just getting to it. With a smaller userbase; cause for lesser sales. In addition, with costs of the blu-ray format not being as cheap as a DvD, which require pennies to mass, are cause for concern. For exampl, if it takes 0.03 dolalrs to print CoD4 on DvD and it cost .50 dollars to do so on blu-ray, and you hope to sell a million copies; you'll lose $ 500 000 opposed to the $ 30 000. Assuming blu-ray is in fact that cheap to make; a single Blu-Ray blank cost $18, roughly. So I'm giving Blu-Ray the benifit of the doubt imagine if it were $1 - $3.

Before crying out "LoL five dvds for LO or Blue Dragon" this isn't about capacity, but a subsequent financial loss.

It just went gold... Its due in november.

No details about this game are out. Here are the basics:

Shooter -Rpg.
Character Customization
"Epic Story" No one knows why the story is Epic, it just is.

Its ocnfusing that people here are saying that it has GOTY potential, based on what? KOTOR? A STAR-Wars Franchise. None of you have played it, there is no demo. None of the reviewers have played a demo or a more recent build of the game & showed videos of it. This is an amazing case of basing all of these claims on absolutely nothing. No one knows what the first level is, no one knows that Bioware removed the main combat battle plan system.(where you place characters to where you need them.)

All that doesn't equal GOTY. If anything the claims are based on KOTOR & Screenshots.

I think the game will be fine, but no newsscreensgameplay this late in the game is a clear sign of the game not being ready, underwhelming or just bad.

Assasins Creed
Uncharted
Ratchet & Clank

All these Oct-Nov releases has extensive coverage, as ALL games do as it gets closer to closer to release.

Wil4hire

[QUOTE="cakeorrdeath"]

Tread makes n sense:?

What mystical consoles can change there operating systems. And since when did I HAVE to use vista. I'm not even using vista. :shock:

SolidSnake35

[QUOTE="cosmostein77"]

This guy has GOT to be a fakeboy,

Otherwise Cows are crazier then I thought.

Friendlyfire53

How am i crazy in presenting facts?

Facts?! What facts, if you have solid facts of certain victory what are you doing here. You should be a prime consultant for the Sony heirarchy. You have a talent, no a gift from God, that only few possess. Fly now, good sir, make haste. The golden chariots of the sky are hailing you. Grasp the opprotunity like a chimpanzee would grasp the works of Karl Marx. Now take your crystal meth - er, ball and make the pilgramage to Sony HQ.

Before I bludgeon you like I bludgeon a deceased calf.