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TWRoO on 16 March 2009
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Kasz216 said:
dunno001 said:
Kasz216 said:

Where the hell did you get numbers for 96.

Sony didn't even have a games division yet.  They didn't until like 2000.

They had the Playstation 1 but that was grouped in with Semi-conductor sales etc and didn't lose money.

 

The PS1 was out before 2000; my 5501 series was dated November, 1997. But Sony was also around video games before the PS1, recall the history of the PS1 as the SNES-CD. In addition, there were a few Sony games released for systems like the SNES, so I'd say it's safe to say numbers go even further back than 96, though they're probably much harder to find; a small blip of another division, if you will.

Read what i said again.

The games division was a blip until 2000.

1996-1999 numbers were part of another division.

 

Acording to the historical fiscal reports... the first time Sony seperated it's gaming division was actually fiscal year 1998 (ending March 31st 1998)

but their reports give graphs with back-dated figures for the 4 years previous..... although for the game section it was only 3 previous years, and also limited information about the actual profits of the division before 1998 (all I can find is "sales" which means revenue.... so I don't know how the OP got the operating profit figures for 1996 or 1997.

Here is the archive of old fiscal reports:
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/ar/Archive.html

The older files are huge by the way, 12MB for the 1996 file!

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Edit: I took these interesting graphs from the 1998 report, (ignore the numbers on the bottom right I was working something out) but I can't figure out what I should be doing to find operating profits



The top graph shows a percentage breakdown of operating revenue, while the bottom is the total company profit/loss... but you can't really use the percentages to or revenue to work out the percentages of profit, because profit can be negative.