NJ5 said:
Probably pretty bad as well. I remember news about Panasonic drastically cutting their forecasts too. Korean companies (Samsung, LG) will probably do OK for the time being due to the weak Won.
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At one point I had heard about Samsung possibly having a far worse holiday season than anticipated. I think the serious global fall in demand is crushing just about everyone. But as you said, the weak Won at least would keep them in the black.
As for comparing Sony to Nintendo, Microsoft and Apple, it may be hard to directly compare performance of the companies as a whole as they generally perform in different sectors of the technology/electronics market. They do have directly competeing divisions within each company though. The real "dagger" for Sony if you compare each company as a whole is they don't have a "stand-out" product that separates them from the competition that is readily adopted by many. Blu-ray is a leader for Sony but despite slightly higher than anticipated adoption it can't compare to other companies having products like the Ipod, Wii, and Windows. Sony's stand-out premium TV line is split with their partner Samsung which again is split with value LCD TV's and Plasmas TV's. The TV market is quite segmented to perform abnormally strongly in.
