Sony actually would be OK today if not for the skyrocketing Yen. Not good, but OK. Their debt put them in a position where they couldn't easily handle the Yen increase. It's not unlike General Motors when the economic crash hit - no wiggle room and they went bankrupt. Nintendo is like Ford was, smaller but with boatloads of cash in the bank. A weaker yen could save Sony from bankruptcy... and it would make Nintendo billions.