Sony's financial report is up

[Jordahn]

BengaBenga said:

Jordahn said:
It seems like the usual suspects are trying to mainly focus on the bad news to downplay any success SONY has with the PS3. The big picture is that SONY is taking a hit to provide consumers a quality product with a growing demand while taking steps to help improve what they are doing to provide that product. I'm encompassing all while some of you are are not, painting a false picture of near total negativity when this is not the case. The PS3 would be a "very very bad idea for Sony" if operation losses stay the same if not worse while the demand for the PS3 has not increased. It's opposite has happened so it's reasonable to say that an encouraging positive outlook for the PS3 is deserved.

 

The big picture is that you're in a financial thread and that making a loss is a bad thing for Sony. This is not a fanboy thing where you can argue whether sales are fine or not, losing money, your shareholders money, is a bad thing. Always.

Sure the Ps3 is doing fine saleswise, but if SCE is unable to translate in to positive figures that's not important. And yes, at this moment the PS3 looks like a very bad business decision, since they lost loads of money over it, despite the quality of the product. I don't ever see them breaking even on the PS3 project tbh.

 

I have voiced several times on these board that any public company need to appease the stockholders first.  So yes, a loss is never good.  But was the PS3 a bad business decision because there is no demand for the product in a thriving economy?  Of course not.  Things happen like a failing economy which is bad for SONY because of the huge investment of the PS3.  But I think the growing demand of the PS3 is encouraging for the gaming community that there is a demand for a quality product.  And why quell that demand by preaching potential doom and gloom?  In fact the increase of demand and the reduction of cost should be a positive sign that when you support the system this will financial help SONY in the longrun.  According to the reports and figures this makes sense.