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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: FancyFeast on January 31, 2008, 05:44:54 PM

Title: How much did Sony get for selling the Cell division to TOshiba?
Post by: FancyFeast on January 31, 2008, 05:44:54 PM

Gaming division posting profits, wow PS3 is doing gangbusters.

I believe they netted ~700 million this last quarter for the sale.

Title: Re: How much did Sony get for selling the Cell division to TOshiba?
Post by: FancyFeast on January 31, 2008, 05:47:31 PM

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/18/sony-sells-cell-to-toshiba/

My bad, 900 million.

Title: Re: How much did Sony get for selling the Cell division to TOshiba?
Post by: The Sceneman on January 31, 2008, 09:13:08 PM

where the fuck is an NPD thread, when does Feb numbers come out

I really want to see how many copies No More Heroes sold

Im also really interested in how many PS3s got sold for some reason, dont ask me why, I just find these sorts of figures fascinating

Title: Re: How much did Sony get for selling the Cell division to TOshiba?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on January 31, 2008, 09:36:01 PM

Probably 2 weeks to NPD.

I doubt you'll be seeing NMH numbers. Not on GAF especially.

Title: Re: How much did Sony get for selling the Cell division to TOshiba?
Post by: Smooth Groove on January 31, 2008, 11:03:50 PM

Quote from: Genghis Cohen on January 31, 2008, 10:15:36 PM

Quote from: dcharlie on January 31, 2008, 10:10:44 PM

lol

<business ignorance cap on> what happens if Toshiba want to be complete dicks and increase the price of the Cell? Revenge for HD-DVD confirmed!!! </cap off>

According to console fanboys believe business decisions are made like this.  Like Microssoft will continue to make the X-Box no matter how unprofitable in order to stick it to sony, or Sega won't make games for a Playstation system because they want revenge.

Actually the second one sounded plausible at the time given the decisions Sega was making.

I don't think MS would do it just out of spite but it makes sense for them to keep making consoles just to keep Sony out of the PC realm.  Sony's desire to replace PCs with Playstations was probably one of the major reasons for MS jumping into the console world.