Yeah hopefully it will become profitable. I would be supripse if it didn't after with all the headway its making, especilally now that the Imaging (camera) division is not doing so well. Not as bad as the TV division but the outlook seems to be grim.

Sony has more cash on bank than Nintendo. Also, you got no reason whatsoever to believe the sell-off of those buildings had anything to do with SCE, so I'm going to attribute that one to a failed attempt at flaming.

In fact, if SCE wanted money in hand to manufacture the PS4, they probably would be better off doing a low-risk, short-term loan than begging the parent company for the entire sum they made on these sell-offs.

market is changing faster than ever, I think it's scary tbh.

Lawlight said: Shinobi-san said: DamnTastic said: Shinobi-san said: Not looking good for Sony I'm afraid Indeed. But it are the TV and Mobile divisions that are really struggling. If they fail they can still go the panasonic way and let them go. It wasnt because of the mobile division that they made a loss. It was also because of losses in gaming and sony pictures. Sony highlighted this in there earnings report i believe. I'm sure those $8M they lost in their gaming division made a massive impact...

Point is Sony highlighted gaming and Sony pictures as the reasons for why they made a loss.

Usually these sectors do well (as well as finances) an offset TV and other poorer ones.

I am just repeating what Sony themselves said.

The TV division is the only division constantly losing significant money. They lost more money in their movie division because they made a lot of poor decisions when it comes to greenlighting movies but in the first half of next year they have Robocop and The Amazing Spiderman 2 so they'll be profitable again.

No, they are not. Where did you get that from?

added this to the OP.

you can see the main reasons for the loss are TV and Pictures

They are not what? Where did i get what from?

When sony releases their financial results they give a commentary or analysis as to why they made a loss etc.

They specifically mentioned Sony pictures and gaming this time around. Like i said these areas usually does well for Sony this time it didnt. Im not saying that these are usually bad areas for Sony. Whats your problem with what im saying?

I will look for my source but im pretty sure about this.

DamnTastic said: added this to the OP. you can see the main reasons for the loss are TV and Pictures

Thanks for posting this.

Like i said earlier Sony Pictures and gaming are usually areas where Sony profits from (as well as financial services). This helps them offset there bad areas like TV.

I see mobile didnt do that badly this quarter. Which is why i said that because of of worse than expected performances in gaming and Sony pictures...this led to them having a loss this quarted. It was well known that TV was going to do badly.

I think Kaz had been moving things in the right direction before these last financials, and with the good press the PS4 has gotten...hopefully things work out. Anything happening to Sony would make me an extremely sad panda.