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The PS4 was never sold at a loss(Sony learnt from their past with the PS2 and PS3). The Xbox One however was https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/11/report-399-p

• georgeecollins 9y ago
  It's a bit pedantic of me to say this, but if your cost of goods is $381, and the retail price is $399, you are losing money. There is the retailers cut, distribution, marketing, R&D etc. They were losing money to invest in the platform. The article says the PS3 cost of goods was $800 per unit at launch, but it is worth remembering that the PS3 was an investment in two strategic initiatives for Sony. One was the PS3 standard, that they would earn future software royalties on. The other, and at the time maybe more important, was the BluRay standard.
  • dbspin 9y ago
    Three... They were also investing heavily in the Cell architecture, codeveloped with IBM and Toshiba. That one just didn't pan out.
    • kuschku 9y ago
      well, it kinda - just not in the way they expected. The changes game developers had to make to handle cell allowed them later on to support multicore CPUs and GPGPU much easier.