Alby_da_Wolf said:
yo_john117 said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:
Just for precision, from this source: http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/11q2_sony.pdf
Page 3 and 4:
Sales decreased 12.3% year-on-year (a 7% decrease on a local currency basis) to 779.7 billion yen (10,126 million
U.S. dollars). Sales to outside customers decreased 12.4% year-on-year. This was primarily due to a decrease in
LCD television sales, reflecting price declines due mainly to deterioration in market conditions in the U.S. and
Europe and unfavorable foreign exchange rates, lower PC sales reflecting price competition, a decline in sales of
the game business, reflecting a strategic price reduction of PlayStation®3 hardware in advance of the year-end
holiday season, as well as a decrease in sales of compact digital cameras resulting from lower unit sales due to a
slowdown in market growth and unfavorable foreign exchange rates.
Operating loss of 34.6 billion yen (449 million U.S. dollars) was recorded compared to income of 1.0 billion yen
in the same quarter of the previous fiscal year. This was primarily due to deterioration in the cost of sales ratio
and a decrease in gross profit due to lower sales, partially offset by a decrease in restructuring charges. Categories
contributing to the deterioration in operating results (excluding restructuring charges) include LCD televisions,
reflecting a decline in unit selling prices that exceeded cost and expense reductions, the game business and PCs,
reflecting lower sales as noted above. Operating loss included additional LCD panel related expenses resulting
from low capacity utilization of S-LCD as well as the above-noted asset impairment of 8.6 billion yen (112 million
U.S. dollars) associated with LCD television assets.
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Wow I wasn't aware that Sony made almost as much revenue on their gaming division as their other big divisions. That's quite impressive really.
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D-Joe specified well things, but your statement was mostly true anyway, even in different years and different periods of the same year, as you can check if you read the whole page 20 / page F8, Games division is consistently ranking 5th, and the first 6 divisions, including Games, are quite close to each other and significantly bigger than the others.
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Yeah I was under the impression that Sony's TV divisions and such absolutely murdered the gaming division for revenue. Pretty cool to see the gaming division being so big.
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