Re: Playstation 3, A Casualty of war?

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HEY UGO,

did you not read the article posted, because your numbers differ from the article that you left a post on, hmmm i wonder who to believe ??????

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you have to own A LOT of accessories with the XBox...seriosuly? No battery pack? For real? Out of the box I am out buying Duracells to power it up like it is Easter morning or something!

Seriously...no battery pack....I am 30. Minus a TV remote, my things doesn't use Duracell's anymore. They plug in somewhere. They have internal battery packs.

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Analysts Applaud Efforts to Shrink PS3 Chips
Stringer's promise to raise Sony's overall margins to 5% by the Mar. 31 fiscal yearend appears easily within reach. And margins should continue to improve as Sony's video-game division, Sony Computer Entertainment, trims the console's manufacturing costs and revs up output.

Nikko Citigroup's Kota Ezawa estimates the games division will lose $1.4 billion this fiscal year, following last year's $2.1 billion loss. And while he doesn't expect the business to be prosperous until late 2009, Ezawa applauds Sony's efforts to shrink the PS3's chips and tweak its design. Already such changes have cut the cost per machine to around $400 now, from above $800 just before it went on sale in November, 2006, he says. (The PS3 with an 80-gigabyte hard-disk drive retails in the U.S.

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"look at the amount of sales sony did and the weak profit they made. they are getting there butts kicked right now and because of that they cant sell anything at a profit."