FailureIsNotAnOption said:
@ NJ5 - We have read them and it says SCE lost $1.9 billion not just the gaming division lost billions and u know that! The vgchartz link even stated that. NO LINK SAYS Sony's gaming division lost $1.9 billion,NONE. |
Evidently you didn't read them, or, you simply scrolled to the bottom, failed to understand the rows and columns of numbers, and continued with your troll posting.
For the benfit of any others who may have never seen financial statements before let me break it down. I'll be referencing the official SONY finanacial statements from their own website, and linked to by NJ5.
Step 1: Follow his link, find where it says FY 2007 Q3 then find where it says "Earnings Release." Look over to the right, and you should notice a 393KB Pdf file. Click on it.
Step 2: Scroll down to page F-8, as numbered in the document. Look toward the bottom of the page where it says operating income(loss). In the 2007 column it says Sony's games division made 12,922 million yen, or 113 millio dollars of profit. Hooray for Sony, PS3 fanboys rejoice. Oh wait, those are just the numbers from the third quarter. On to the next page, a much more sobering reality, and step 3.
Step 3: You should now be on page F-9. Now, this page represents cumulative totals form the beginning of the fiscal year. In the same location it says that fiscal year to date the games division has made (112,970) million yen, or (991) million dollars. What do the parentheses mean? you ask. Well I'll tell you. It means that so far in fiscal 2007 Sony's games division has LOST 991 million dollars
A similar look at Sony's statement from FY 2006 Q4 reveals that ifor the fiscal year ending March 31, 2007 (FY 2006) they lost that 1.9 billion dollars that FailureIsNotAnOption seems to be unable to find.
Just follow the simple steps I outlined above to avoid confusion because for you in this thread phailure was really the only option.
