Zlejedi said:
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.
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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
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The exchange rates aren't helping Sony, they have stated there was negative impact from currencies at the gaming division.
It's likely that many of the components are paid in USD (it's a quite standard currency for international trade), but that doesn't really help since the Euro and British Pound went down against the USD.
