Originally Posted by
Cthulhu
This ties into the E3 stuff a little bit, but I don't want to clog up the threads with talk of a lot of current and old systems.
Everyone likes to talk about how much money is "lost" per unit sold. About the idea that Microsoft loses money on each Xbox sold, Sony on each PS2, etc. I agree that they probably are indeed losing money on them, but the numbers I hear vary wildly and often reach ridiculous amounts.
Does anyone here have actual concrete, quoatable, tracable statistics for the amount of money that is "lost" on the purchase of console systems? Are actual figures available, or are we left with little more than wild speculation?