Sony shares slide as worries mount over data leak

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alfredofroylan said:

Aiddon said:

$1.5 billion would be pretty nasty for the games division (even if to Sony as a whole that's relatively miniscule). At the very least this is a pretty big blow to their image

As a reference the RROD problem cost MS 1 billion, so losing 1.5 billion in a couple of weeks is going to hit hard.

When Microsoft can pull in $10-15 in profit each year, it's big, but not critical.

Sony however is lucky to make $1.5 billion profit total. So that amount could put them into loss.