I meant it as a bad thing for Sony, actually.

Any console that has had a price cut this early, despite the rise in sales, is still doing bad.

I'm very interested in these things, and from a neutral perspective, using the data provided here (NPD: US game sales up 22 percent in June - PlayStation 2 News at GameSpot), this is what I came out to have Sony's profits be with/without the sale increase and the price cut.


Assuming that 98,500 (100k to round) units would have been sold this month, and that each unit originally was 600$ (500 w/ cut)....

Price Cut Only: $50,000,000
Sales Increase Only (135%): $81,000,000
Both: $67,500,000
Neither: $60,000,000

Well you can obviously just ignore the first two numbers. It looks like they will make 7,500,000 more using my numbers, amazing what $100 can do on a grand scale...

Granted through all of this, though, Sony is still losing money per console sold.