http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/playstation-3-launch-up-to-a-year-away/ Digital Trends is your home for technology news, CE product reviews, mobile app reviews and daily videos. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/playstation-3-launch-up-to-a-year-away/#comment-52515 Ian Bell Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:30:38 +0000 http://www.digitaltrends.com#comment-52515 My initial thought and I am sure others reading this will think the same, is that Sony is crazy to be taking such a big loss like this. But if you think about it, they are killing two birds with one stone. They get people to purchase a killer gaming system chocked full of features AND they get people into their Blu-Ray camp. So now Sony is getting royalties off of the console system's games and movies based on Blu-Ray. Obviously someone at Sony is running the numbers and thinks they will pull a profit after a few years. Whats the typical lifespan for a console? 10 years or something like that? My initial thought and I am sure others reading this will think the same, is that Sony is crazy to be taking such a big loss like this. But if you think about it, they are killing two birds with one stone. They get people to purchase a killer gaming system chocked full of features AND they get people into their Blu-Ray camp. So now Sony is getting royalties off of the console system's games and movies based on Blu-Ray. Obviously someone at Sony is running the numbers and thinks they will pull a profit after a few years. Whats the typical lifespan for a console? 10 years or something like that?

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