DFC Intelligence senior technology analyst and president Wanda Meloni has argued that the PS3 is not likely to ”break even” across its lifetime with current losses per unit.
Also troublingly for Sony, DFC expects that their market share will fall to between 40 and 50 percent by the end of the current generation, down from the golden era of PS2’s 67.
Luckily she brought a ray of sun shine to the PC as she explained that most of the doom mongering for the platform has been from groups that still only measure retails sales.
”The PC has moved much faster to online and digital distribution methods that they aren’t tracking,” she said, while the actual market increases to grow.
”For example, by 2010 we expect the PC userbase in Asia will begin to outpace that in North America or Europe,” she added. Meloni believes the online PC market is worth $6.5 billion as of 2008.
Source: Gamasutra