kowenicki said:

One more time....

The money in from the building sales adds a PROFIT in the accounts.  Any money then, or previously, used to buy Gaikai does not then reduce the profts, its an exchange of one asset for another (cash for a company)

If the building werent sold there would be a $1bn loss, the buying of Gaikai is irrelevant from a profit perspective.

You do, becasue I have just told you.

It is a profit gain.  Money spent on gaikai or any other asset does not reduce profit.

Gaikai isnt a loss, it is a purchase not a business expense.

Result is that cash assets drop and other assets rise.  It has zero bearing on Profit and Loss.

kowenicki said:

You do, becasue I have just told you.

It is a profit gain.  Money spent on gaikai or any other asset does not reduce profit.

Investing Activities: During the current fiscal year, Sony used 705.3 billion yen (7,503 million U.S. dollars) of net cash in investing activities, a decrease of 177.6 billion yen, or 20.1% year-on-year.

For all segments excluding the Financial Services segment, 49.8 billion yen (530 million U.S. dollars) was used, a decrease of 271.7 billion dollars, or 84.5% year-on-year. This decrease was primarily due to an increase in cash inflow from the sale of fixed assets year-on-year, the absence of cash outflow related to the acquisition of Sony Ericsson in the previous fiscal year, a year-on-year decrease in the amount of purchases of fixed assets, and cashinflow from the sale of the chemical products related business in the current fiscal year. The sale of Sony CityOsaki and Sony’s U.S. headquarters building were included in the sale of fixed assets in the current fiscal year.Partially offsetting these factors were factors increasing cash outflow such as a year-on-year increase in paymentsfor investments and advances during the current fiscal year, the acquisition of U.S.-based Gaikai Inc. recorded inother investing activities in the current fiscal year and a year-on-year decrease in proceeds from the sale ofsecurities investments. An investment in Olympus Corporation in the current fiscal year is included ininvestments and advances. The sale of Sony’s shares of S-LCD in the previous fiscal year and the sale of Sony’sshares of DeNA in the current fiscal year are included in sales or return of investments and collections of advances.

kowenicki said:

I woudln't say they were undisclosed.

The losses are there for all to see.  Electronics is something that Sony struggles to make money with.

Mobile (smartphones and vaio) and Home electronics (TV etc) made huge losses.  $1bn loss for mobile and a $900m loss for home electronics

Yet these and Game is how they expect to return the company to past glories.

Well it is the third year in a row that the Game Division posted profit and the FY2009 is unknown.

kowenicki said:

unfortunately the relatively small annual profits for Game are dwarfed by losses elsewhere