Not profits and losses numbers, because in the financial statement they declare just sales for the single Product Categories, while they group profits and losses in different tables of the balance sheets, but in the financial statement Sony clearly states that:

- floods harmed mainly CPS and PDS income, as production in some plants was temporarily halted (page 10 of the PDF I linked)

- unfavourable exchange rates affected revenue of many Business Segments (this is stated in various pages in different contexts)

And this confirms what both you and I wrote and at least agree on a minimum basis, that those factors negatively affected the whole Sony business overall, independently from what's losing or just profiting less.

Specifically regarding CPS Segment (the one including Games Product Category):

- Sales decreased 12.3% year-on-year (a 7% decrease on a local currency basis) to 779.7 billion yen (10,126 million
U.S. dollars). Sales to outside customers decreased 12.4% year-on-year. This was primarily due to a decrease in
LCD television sales, reflecting price declines due mainly to deterioration in market conditions in the U.S. and
Europe and unfavorable foreign exchange rates, lower PC sales reflecting price competition, a decline in sales of
the game business, reflecting a strategic price reduction of PlayStation®3 hardware in advance of the year-end
holiday season, as well as a decrease in sales of compact digital cameras resulting from lower unit sales due to a
slowdown in market growth and unfavorable foreign exchange rates. (page 3)

- Operating loss of 34.6 billion yen (449 million U.S. dollars) was recorded compared to income of 1.0 billion yen
in the same quarter of the previous fiscal year. This was primarily due to deterioration in the cost of sales ratio
and a decrease in gross profit due to lower sales, partially offset by a decrease in restructuring charges. Categories
contributing to the deterioration in operating results (excluding restructuring charges) include LCD televisions,
reflecting a decline in unit selling prices that exceeded cost and expense reductions, the game business and PCs,
reflecting lower sales as noted above. Operating loss included additional LCD panel related expenses resulting
from low capacity utilization of S-LCD as well as the above-noted asset impairment of 8.6 billion yen (112 million
U.S. dollars) associated with LCD television assets. (page 4)

In the quoted parts you can read that all the main products, LCDs, Games, compact digital cameras and PCs contributed in general to bad results due to lower sales (meant as lower revenue from sales, the sheets don't mention units sold, just money), but only for LCDs it's specified that they were forced to cut prices below profitability, so generating losses, while it clearly specifies that PS3 price cut caused lower sales, it doesn't say losses. In the second paragraph quoted it says profits decreased (obviously it must be referred to products that previously profited and now too, but less than before, you don't just say "profits decreased" if they were totally erased and turned to losses too), while only for LCDs it explicitly states they are losing.

Anyway, as I wrote, the fact that PS3 shouldn't be losing, but just profiting less, doesn't deny the fact that Games Category is surely suffering at least indirectly, as it belongs to a Business Segment that is suffering heavy losses. Whatever the cause, not being independent from the losing Categories, Games is in some troubles. This said, Sony must push them and all the other products that at least aren't losing, as much as possible to balance the losses caused by LCDs.

yeah ok thx for your answer. do you think they will talk about their win/loss situation for ps3 in 2011 or fiscal year 2011 anytime? or just for the whole segment? maybe april or may for fiscal year 2011?

Sony royalties on Blu Ray are quite a tiny fraction of the forfait fees the consortium receives on drives and discs, except in the cases it produces or publishes the contents or it licenses its specific implementations of the standards to 3rd parties. Sony sells its drives, blank discs and contents too and on them it profits obviously more, but royalties on the tech should be quite low. More than royalties, Blu Ray victory on HD-DVD avoided Sony and other HW companies to pay far higher royalties than Sony's share on BD, to Microsoft, as MS owns the most used implementation, based on Windows CE, of HD-DVD's interactive contents, while BD OTOH uses a Java derivative for them. About codecs, MS gets royalties when its codec for the VC-1 format is used, but alternative codecs can be used too, as the format itself isn't proprietary anymore, MS opened it to have it accepted by both BD and HD-DVD consortia.

Saying Sony gets much money from BD royalties is wrong, it gets money from its whole presence in the BD business, and having won the format war put Sony and the other producers of the winning format in a better situation than the losers, having drives and discs already in production when the war ended and not having to sell at a loss supplies of the losing stuff, but royalties from others are a tiny fraction of the profits..