Sony Game division made $375m profit (FY 2011)

[Kresnik]

Sal.Paradise said:

Kresnik said:

Okay, can anyone please explain some stuff to me since I'm really pretty new to this whole financials/financial year thing, and I'm having trouble getting my head around it all.

Basically, if Turkish's figures are correct (I'm assuming they are)  - does that mean that this: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=144920&page= whole kerfuffle from about a month ago was way off?

Also, does this mean that SCE have posted 2 straight years of profits now (based on this: http://i.imgur.com/zYw1A.jpg since the 2011 data is incomplete), or am I missing something?

Thanks.

I'd like to know this too, I'm confused. 

I've been trying to work this out on my own since no-one else seems able to help.  As far as I can tell:

Sony (and other Japanese Corporations) refer to their financial years in terms of the year they started, so 2011 year goes from 1st of April 2011 - 31st of March 2012.

That document points to FY 2011, which according to their terms means it ran from April 2011 to March 2012.

And yeah, it points to a profit.

I've been trying to find out where the Sony information came from for FY 2010 in that Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo screenshot so I can compare it to this data and be 100% sure it's correct, but Sony lump all their "consumer products and services" into one figure making it impossible to split up.  It must be out there somewhere.

Anyway, yeah.  Since no-one else has had anything to say about it all signs are pointing towards it being a profit for SCE last year, making it the second year in a row that they've posted one, and completely debunking that thread going round a month ago about them losing $1.2 billion last year.