| heruamon said: .. Viao is profitable, |
This one is wrong with absolute certainty. It probably accounts for a big part of the $650M losses. Had you watched what was going on in the laptop business ,you would have noticed a dramatic price decline in that area (particularly when those "mini-laptops" hit the shelves in drones ). At some point, Sony laptops were for the most part several hundred $ more expensive than all the other comparable laptops and were basically no longer selling at all (at least in central Europe). By the end of the quarter, prices were finally down to competitor's prices. If we assume that 1-2Mio laptops were blocking shelve space, this alone would account for most of the losses reported in the division (assuming pricing adjustments were world-wide).
