Sony shares slide as worries mount over data leak

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snakenobi said:

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.

MS lost way over $1b

their reserve for RROD problem was itself $1.5b and even then they allocated some more to it after the rrod problem continued

From 2007 MS Annual Report:

EDD operating loss increased primarily due to the $1.06 billion Xbox 360 charge.

If you have some other information provide a source.  That charge was a setaside to cover repairs and charges for the past and additional warranty charges going forward. As far as I know MS has never reported that they hit the top of the set aside.