As you can see from these graphs, in the last 3 months, 1 Yen has been buying 18% more Yuan, 1 Yen has been buying 23% more TWD, and 15% more USD. Those should be the majority of the costs, but this analysis can not estimate how much cost is in each currency, or other currencies used. Further, raw materials will be variable and have the potential to either help or hurt. Considering they likely in-house most of the electronics, the cost will remain pretty much unchanged to them. There will also be increased costs in Japan, which will include some manufacturing and maybe some more that i'm not familiar enough with Sony's structure to comment on. Figure potentially a rough 5-10% drop in manufacturing due to these factors.
This, however, is not nearly enough to counter the 25% drop in the value of the Euro in relation to the Yen, or the decreased power of the dollar mentioned above.
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