All I can say is that you have been wrong about bankrupty for 10 years, so the day you may eventually be right after more than another 10 years, it wont mean anything. Boy who cried wolf.

The Z series has been very popular despite the cost, and they have compact versions of them too. I agree though, they really need to improve their low-end range. The mid-range phones were good last year but they were very slow with android updates and have recently said they wont be updated to kitkat... a perfect way to annoy your customers.

The truth is, you don't want to believe it. Because you are pro-Sony, you want to believe that everything is rosy and perfect for them.

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-Mr Khan

A deeper analysis of this is that it's a writedown of assets. As for cutting employees, that's an unfortunate but necessary step towards returning to profitability. This 2b is not an operating loss (eg we spent X and brought in Y), but rather "here is the new lesser value". It's not nearly as interesting as some are making it out to be, otherwise you'd see panic in the market, and that's hardly the case at all.

So according to Gaf the majority of the loss is a write off. Guess that's better news?

Agree. About Android updates: but they can't be slower than Motorola itself! If I didn't read it, I would have never guessed it was owned by Google for a few years, judging by OS upgrades (or actually lack of). 

This isn't my fight, but I just have to comment on this... Even though PS4 most probably will still be leading the gaming market 5 years from now (or have been replaced by PS5), do you REALLY think they will succeed in phones, cameras and handhelds? Vita is dying, and if the portable market really has shrunk, there will only be room for Nintendo. Next PSP will fail if the market is too small, no? Cameras is a shrinking market as well (unfortunately), so no hope for massive profits there. And hey have, what, like 5% of the phone market now? They have been losing market shares for quite a while, how will they turn that around when it's this very division that is costing them massive amounts of money right now? I think it's far more safer to say that Sony will sell of their phone division, than for their phones to become market leaders, or compete successfully with Samsung/Apple...

They invested a lot of money on marketing for the World cup and there are still remnants of their lost PC division. Not too mention they need money to promote their Smartphones too and it takes money to do so. Let's see from the same point of view that MS "lost" 2,5B dollars for acquiring Mojang. Sony "lost" all this money promoting their stuff and making it better.

Again, none of that indicates bankruptcy anytime soon. and you dont think the z series is popular? lol.

Woah, that's pretty nasty coming off of several years of bleeding, it just doesn't seem to want to end. Sony got too comfortable on their 90's throne and forgot to move their brands forward, especially letting Samsung gain so much power and marketshare in phones and hi-fi without taking serious measures has been a grave, ongoing mistake and they haven't really started to try to get costs down until a few years ago.
Of course, it doesn't help that Japan was among the most severely affected by the financial crises either; but Sony could have done a lot more to soften the blow(s).

Much as I have always enjoyed Sony products, from TV's to consoles, phones and MP3-players; I don't feel sorry for them right now, what traction they have lost is mostly due to refusing to secure their footing when they had the chance.