| Aielyn said: It amazes me how many gamers apparently think like this. You do realise that Sony is a big company, and that their purchase of shares at 8% is an investment, not a matter of control or influence, right? That Sony gets dividends from any SE profit? Between 2004 and 2010, SE was making strong profit, from what I can see. It was only from 2011 that everything fell apart. -snip- I don't know how much SE was paying in dividends, but if you assume 20 billion yen per year profit, and, say, 25% of that was paid in dividends (known as the dividend payout ratio - and 25% is low even by modern standards), with 18.6% stake held (from that old article), then Sony would have gotten 930 million yen per year in dividends from SE, for a total over the years between 2004 and 2010 of 6.5 billion yen. Not a bad return over 7 years on a 14.9 billion yen investment (it's roughly a return of 6.2% per annum). |
I was talking from my own selfish point of view as a PlayStation gamer 
