- Sony Corporation announced its consolidated results for the second quarter ended September 30,2009. Operating revenue was $18,458 million. An operating loss of $362 million was recorded. Sony Corp. posted a net loss of $292 million.

- The game division (Network and Product Services) lost $654 million for the quarter.

- PS3 shipment for the quarter is 3.2 million (Compared to 3.5 million Wiis and 2.1 million Xbox 360s)

- Total PS3 shipment is 27 million (PS2 is 140.80 million, PSP is 55.90 million)

- Overall result was better-than-expected.

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/09q2_sony.pdf

From the PDF

For the network (playstation) unit, it lost 59.9 billion yen or $654 million in the second quarter.

Wowza that's a lot!

That is $273 million worse than the same quarter 2008, however 2008 doesn't include PC sales. Pretty bad regardless.

On a positive note, Sony is doing better than expected overall. They would be probably profit for the year if it weren't for the terrible performance of the network division.

Wonder how much of that loss is from VAIO and Walkman and how much is from PlayStation 3.

$650M is quite a lot to lose in a single quarter!

Walkman is lumped in there too, right? I believe it's PlayStation, Walkman, and Vaio, with the actually entity referred to as "Sony Computer Entertainment" now only that in name.

They really ought to drop Walkman. Sure, it is a huge brand name still, but with iPod dominance I don't see the investment as worthwhile.

they said in the Q1 shipment that Walkman was making profit and Vaio was not, i doubt it has changed that much. Sony was also hurt by the exchange rate again like Nintendo.

Yes, that's correct.

PlayStation, VAIO and Walkman businesses are now under "Networked Products & Services group". And the company's Bravia televisions, Cyber-shot digital-cameras, and audio and video operations is now under "Consumer Products Group".