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NobleTeam360 on 22 July 2015
CosmicSex said:
KyleeStrutt said:

Those are FY Q4 results, i.e. from January 1st to March 31st.

We'll get Sony's results from the Q1 of their new fiscal year (which is to say the same time frame of Microsoft's results) on July 30th.

In other words, we don't know if Microsoft lost more money than Sony this quarter yet.

OP pls.


Yes we do know. There is simply no way that Sony could suffer a loss that great and still exist. There is no realistic way that could happen. 

 

They totally failed with Nokia. This is why I don't want them near AMD.  

Because AMD is doing so great right now?



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ShadowofYahrnam on 22 July 2015

Hahahaha this post is hilarious. Microsoft has 4.5X more cash on hand ($90B) than Sony is worth as an entire comapny. You sound like the people saying 'But Xbox won sales the week of E3!' It's one quarter when MS dumped Nokia. MS will bounce back and crush Sony's revenue and profit margins next quarter just like they always do.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/11/technology/overseas-cash-tech/



Kotastic on 22 July 2015

Well, you need to look at the big picture instead of that one incident.



bobgamez on 22 July 2015

hope sony does make a profit, they've had a great year in the stock market but its starting to fall again, if they dont have profits this quarter it might go down a lot. But if they profit it'll probably stay the same



MoHasanie on 22 July 2015
Ruler said:
MoHasanie said:

They would have made a usual $5bn profit if it wasn't for that writedown. And revenue was expected to be down since people might be waiting for Windows 10 to come out.


so would Sony, they were also just writing off erricson

They were writing off Erricson for 6 years? Sony was very unprofitable between 2008 and 2014. Were all those losses due to the write off? 



    

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D-Joe on 22 July 2015

Writedown isn't really a lost.



http://zh-tw.justin.tv/johndoe1899

binary solo on 22 July 2015

5.1% of MS revenue is probably > Sony's total revenue.



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Teeqoz on 22 July 2015
MoHasanie said:

They would have made a usual $5bn profit if it wasn't for that writedown. And revenue was expected to be down since people might be waiting for Windows 10 to come out.


Actually, revenue wasn't forecast to be down this much, and that lead to the stock dropping 3.5% in after hours trading.



iTzCharlie on 22 July 2015

"Just want to challenge the popular notion on here that Sony is constantly bleeding red ink and MSFT is invincible"
It's the truth don't laugh....................



ShadowofYahrnam on 22 July 2015
Teeqoz said:
MoHasanie said:

They would have made a usual $5bn profit if it wasn't for that writedown. And revenue was expected to be down since people might be waiting for Windows 10 to come out.


Actually, revenue wasn't forecast to be down this much, and that lead to the stock dropping 3.5% in after hours trading.

 

Oh my! 3.5%!? What ever will they do!?