Fumanchu said:
Why? In the years prior to the PS3 release SCE was profitable. Obviously it was buoyed by the great selling PS2, but it also didn't take anywhere near a 1 billion dollar loss against the previous FY until the PS3 was released and sold with heavy losses. Microsoft losing 229 million last quarter is more murky...we don't have the transparency of looking exclusively at their gaming division, which is what this is showing. We also know that they've invested in other areas of its' E&D division, namely payments to Nokia for Windows phone and the recently revealed Surface tablet. |
Well if it is useless to guess then there is no use guessing. And yeah during the PS2 years SCE was a lot more profitable then it is now, and I am thinking that PS3 R&D also included costs of blu-ray which might have been included in some other division.
Once they change the divisions like that it gets much more difficult to compare losses and profits.
