Aielyn said: Carl2291 said: I was talking from my own selfish point of view as a PlayStation gamer But even from that perspective, it's wrong. That money they got in dividends? It most likely went to either directly fund video game development, or to marketing that would drive further sales of games on the system, which would have helped to further bolster various franchises.

okay...japanese companies are horrible at paying dividends. There is no pressure from japanese investors to pay dividends and they tend to horde cash instead.  If what they wanted was dividends they would invest in a company that is stable and pays high dividends.  They invested in a crappy company that pays low and extremely inconsistant dividends and has also lost half of its value since they bought it. 

google SMBC Nikko Securities to see why this is a smart move by Sony.

Sony should have sold those shares years ago, but now is better than later, I guess.

Good news and bad news.

SE's Dividend Ratio aims for 30%.

That said 18.6% is high Sony only holds about 8.25% of the company.

The 18.6% stock was I believe from Square before it merged with Enix.  Plus Sony sold some stock off earlier.

Also, looking at your graph, it looks more like ~18 Million in profit to me.

All in all it's a weird time to sell.  What with Square Enix dropping pretty steadily.   Seems like it'd be a time you'd hold on.

Yeh I've heard they're selling tons of PS4s :d

Square: FF15 won't be exclusive, and we have lost our jrpg touch..
Sony: Peace.

Was so tempted to make a joke along these lines.

No offence, but mine was going to be better.

Go on then! Warning, if it uses the word 'doom' sarcastically I'll deduct 10 points (of a possible 11).

Ugh. Now you've put me on the spot.

Sony is closing shop next month, Yosh will sell his tie and when the last PS4 they built is sold right before E3, they will close shop for good as all their assets will have been dissolved by this point... thus everyone should stop buying PS4s to save Sony!