Less than a week to go before Sony announces their holiday results.

MS announced $357M in its entertainment division.

Nintendo did okay as well, Net Income - 126.5 Billion Yen ($1.2 billion)

Sony announces 3rd quarter results on 1/31.

Anyone care to predict what their gaming division did in terms of operating income?

Did the costs of the two versions of the PS3 come down enough to match their price cuts?  Was the holiday sales of PS2 games strong enough to overwhelm any losses of the PS3, if they are still sold at a loss?

 FYI, the previous quarters for the gaming division were not so good.

Q1     (29.2)Byen

Q2     (96.7)Byen

With costs coming down, tho offset by the price reduction, higher software sales being the holidays, I have to think that Sony did better than their Q2.  I'll say back down to Q1 results, of (30)Byen loss, or at 106yen to the dollar, just less than ($300M). 

I'll go with $400 million in losses.

I'll say they lost $32.50

$500 million

I say they lost $357M... this way they will even out with MS's entertainment division.

-550 million is my guestimation (i like that word)

 I would laugh so hard if that happened. It would be like God telling a joke.

I'll be a rogue, and say they break even almost exactly.

They took a HUGE hit on their reports last quarter by devaluing their warehouse inventory from 600 to 400 dollars: that means all those 80 GB models that were already manufactured could now be sold at break even or even at a profit.

That's why Sony's reports were so incredibly awful last quarter, and thus I expect this quarter to be particularly good -- followed by another mediocre-to-bad quarter following this one, because the 400-dollar-devaluing effect will be gone, as will Christmas software sales. 

80 gigs in inventory went from $600 to $500 not from $600 to $400.

 Good to know, thanks.