ChichiriMuyo said:
Dude, try reading the rest of the report. Everywhere you see parenthesis that means money was lost in that sector for that time period. Only that time period. Look at the Cash Flows section of those charts, what you will see before that is either (loss) or (used for), and that is becase at that time, and that time only, that sector provided a negative income. It happens throught the report. In some points, such as the Cash Flows section, there are times when both tiem periods mentioned have their numebrs in parenthesis. At those times, they lost money, at any time when a number is not in parenthesis it has thereby been stated, unequivocably, by Sony that a profit has been made. Ergo, Sony made a profit last quarter. And that made me giggle, because of all the people who simply couldn't believe it was possible. I have laughed at the people who keep saying "Sony can't afford ____" over and over again. Every few months, in fact, Sony gives me something to laugh about. It's like they sabotaged themselves just so they could tell people that they did the impossible. They cut prices impossibly fast, they cut costs impossibly fast, they made profits when their supposed losses made it impossible. Impossible. Impossible. Impossible. That's all I hear from people who, like you, simply refuse to believe Sony can do what it does. That in the face of them doing it longer than you've been alive, to boot. Granted, they've had their failures. Every company does. Yet a bunch of people sitting around chatting in forums think that, in many cases with no business education, they can actually determine what a massive company like Sony is capable of. Well, here ya go, naysayers. Sony won. They may not have sold the most, they may still be strugglign with their business model, but they've won. They've overtaken Microsoft for the time being and they made a profit after two "desperate" pricecuts. And the headlines in the news lately have said Sony is just going to keep cutting costs relentlessly this year. Shrunken lasers, 65nm RSX, 45nm Cells, smaller mb that innevitable comes with the previous two. Looks like they'll be reaching $300 this year, and it might not even cut into their pocket books. What "impossible" thing will Sony next for my amusement, I wonder? |
I asked a simpe question as to why it said (loss) after it besides it yet didn't in other profit gaining divisions. I think you are looking way too much into it.
Had someone actually simply said "Because they were using it to explain why the comparison was in parenthesis", i wouldn't have had to figure it out myself.
