By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Sony - SONY FY14 Q2: Results $1.2bn loss. 3.3m ps4 shipped.

DonFerrari on 31 October 2014
kowenicki said:
Overall these results arent that bad for a financial perspective.

At least they aren't losing in the majority of sectors now. Profits are still hard to come by though in pretty much all sectors other than the usual devices and financials.

Playstation is a bit of a concern. Shipment numbers are obvioulsy big but profits are modest really.

The big problem is of course Mobile. The numbers arent good and the losses are insane. Kaz has a peoblme here as he pretty much put his repuatation on the line with mobile. If it fails, he will be gone.

Kowen how would evaluate the comment above yours as the big reason for the 1.1B loss being downgrade on goodwill of mc to 0? If true it could mean that any decent improvement would upgrade it a lot and bring good results for next quarter or even balance yearly results right?

glad to see you are satisfied with Sony numbers. As you said they are finally stearing most divisions to profit. Hope they find a path on mc.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Around the Network
Xevross on 31 October 2014

Total shipments so far this calender year: PS4 = 9m, XB1 ~ 3.6m, WiiU = 1.43m

Usually, half of the shipments come in Q4, so expect to see those numbers roughly doubled. PS4 will be huge



http://vizioneck.com/

WhiteEaglePL on 31 October 2014

So what are the fiscal year losses every year for the last 5 figures? I want to know.

The PS division is as always doing great, but I'm afraid most of everything Sony is not. That's where the losses are clearly coming from.



foxtail on 31 October 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
Ninsect said:
Phones really dragged Sony down this quarter. Gaming is now their most important segment if we go by revenue

It is as well, nice!

Although, even though it's now their highest revenue segment it is only just above mobile.

At the same time Imaging, Devices, Music and Financial Services all have better margins than Gaming.  The Game segment is the 2nd lowest of the profitable segments in this area, with only the TV division having a lower margin.  It's not to say that revenue isn't important, just something else to look at.



Xevross on 31 October 2014
WhiteEaglePL said:
So what are the fiscal year losses every year for the last 5 figures? I want to know.

The PS division is as always doing great, but I'm afraid most of everything Sony is not. That's where the losses are clearly coming from.

The losses are coming almost completely from mobile alone. Sony would be doing fine without it.



http://vizioneck.com/

Around the Network
Train wreck on 31 October 2014

The goodwill write-down for their mobile division was unfortunate, I mean a write-off like that tends to be a one off but that put a black eye on an otherwise good quarter. Sony has no real presence in North America which is startling in that they can easily chip at Samsungs Android lead. TV division, TV division, TV division, that was the mantra for a decade and to see it stable on a non holiday quarter is something.

The gaming section needs its own thread (I'm sure there is one already) Q2 looked good and that was July to September which are normally gaming slow months. I wouldn't be surprised if their 9.4 million forecast for the next two quarters is conservative. You have the December event, you have Japanese game developers conferences starting in Decemer as well. The console has a game coming out a week in Japan starting in January with bundles galore and NA/EU...well we know whats going on there already.



WhiteEaglePL on 31 October 2014
Xevross said:
WhiteEaglePL said:
So what are the fiscal year losses every year for the last 5 figures? I want to know.

The PS division is as always doing great, but I'm afraid most of everything Sony is not. That's where the losses are clearly coming from.

The losses are coming almost completely from mobile alone. Sony would be doing fine without it.

Saucy proof? 



WhiteEaglePL on 31 October 2014

I can't see those picture things.



eyeofcore on 31 October 2014

Sony is a zombie or a ghoul(tokyo ghoul)...

Who will end this misery/agony...



Xevross on 31 October 2014
WhiteEaglePL said:
I can't see those picture things.

Same here, check this out though: http://abload.de/img/3u9ujs.jpg



http://vizioneck.com/