Are u afraid of Sony's PS3 division results after MS X360 financial results

[Zlejedi]

NJ5 said:

Slimebeast said:
So how many million $ in losses do u perdict for the quarter NJ5?

I perdict -$90 million.

It's hard to predict individual divisions, with that said:

Holiday quarter 2007: $132m profit (by today's exchange rate, keeping this simple)

Jan-Mar quarter 2008: $118m loss

Holiday quarter 2008: $4m profit

So what changed from Jan-Mar last year?

On the positive side, PS3 software sales improved and hardware cost decreased. On the negative side, exchange rates are worse, and PS2 / PSP HW/SW sales are worse as well.

I wouldn't be surprised if these factors cancel each other and the loss is as big as last year (around $100m-$200m). Perhaps a bit more since holiday 2007 was better than this one. It's just a rough guess though.

 

This might also mean that PS3 is cheaper. We don't know what currency is used but since consoles are produced in china (IIRC) it's probably USD