This web focus to gamers. Thats what I mean

Wah? They are going to blow up the foundation of this building? I don't care I am on the roof.

They already did that a week ago:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=55786

edit - oops, I thought you meant drop PS3's price.

i would assume that a operating profit of -$2billion would wipe out any retained profits from last year. Its gunna be really interesting to see what there dividend payout is. too much and you leave yourself with too little working capital for next year. too little and your gunna see a rapid fall in share price. plus with an $11 billion debt im guessing they company is already too highly geared to be thinking of borrowing more money

I wouldn't be surprised MS wants to start a price war. They know Sony is in no financial shape to take further losses. In a war of attrition, the side with the most resources (money) wins.

What? This sight deals with sales numbers, which definately falls in the economic realm. And as a gamer myself, I would like to know the future of the game systems and the games that will be featured on these systems. If the companies that either make games or hardware are suffering financially, this will affect me as a gamer. Please explain how this is "flaming."

Sony have been having to lay off alot of jobs lately, but the same goes for microsoft. Everybody is being hit by the recession. But I bet sony and microsoft are thanking their lucky stars that they have such a large foot in the only market that is doing so well in this time of recession.

Wow, so much is wrong with this post.

1) The amount of money MS has lost on the X-box brand has been brought up on this forum several times. Usually in comparison to the profits Sony made on the PS1 and PS2 in contrast with the losses on PS3. Your point is immaterial regardless. Sony as a company is posting these losses. MS as company was posting huge profits in spite of their losses on teh X-box.

2) Nintendo made profit on the Gamecube. So your comparison is ridiculous. Anyone predicting Nintendo's demise didn't have sense enough to look at their balance sheet. No matter what their marketshare is, Nintendo has always posted a profit. Nintendo does not use the "loss leader" strategy that Sony and MS employ. So they don't have to dominate the market to make profit.

If the information on Sony was fabricated, I could understand people being upset. However this is factual information on the financial status of the company. Should this information not be posted because a few fanboys don't want to face up to reality?

Dont Sony have enough assets to see them through if things potentially get alot worse?

Sure they can sell their assets. However the problem is that the buyers will be very stingy in a bad economy. Like the housing market, there are few buyers and many sellers which devalues the assets immensely.