hudsoniscool said:
thismeintiel said:
kowenicki said:
SOLIDSNAKE08 said:
sony have been bleeding money for years now and they're still here! get over it people!! |
Sony Corp profit/loss history:
1996: Profit
1997: Profit
1998: Profit
1999: Profit
2000: Profit
2001: Profit
2002: Profit
2003: Profit
2004: Profit
2005: Profit
2006: Profit
2007: Profit
2008: Profit (record profits)
2009: Loss
2010: Loss
So its actually a relatively recent phenomenon and they had record profits as recently as 2008.
Thankfully, Sony, unlike their "fans", realise that they need to do something different.
They are cutting deep, restructuring and trying a different way. They understand that a lot of their business practices and models no longer work.
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I highly doubt any fan would disagree that they need to do something different. However, the last couple years that has nothing to do with the PS3, something this website focusses on. It's mainly their lower LCD TV and laptop sales, coupled with a horrible exchange rate for the dollar and euro against the yen, that is the reason for the losses.
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ya i agree. 4 or 5 billion dollar loss on 1 product isnt very much.
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You do realise they have already started making profit on the PS3 as of like a year or so ago, so your statement holds no weight anymore as it does not affect this quarter's reported loss. Of course, I could bring up that the original Xbox lost the same amount for MS. Or how for the first few years, the 360 division was in the red by a few billion. Or the real shocker, the division that holds the 360 has yet to come out of the red since the release of the original Xbox.
