Nintendo 483 billion yen revenue 116 billion profit Sony 2672 billion yen revenue 350 billion profit Seems like Nintendo is nearly twice as profitable per dollar revenue than Sony is. Sony needs to start charging more to catch up

Where did you get these Nintendo numbers from?

First time I've looked at a Sony financial statement. Not surprised their gaming segment is doing well. I find it interesting that they are turning a profit in all of their other segments too though. Good for them.

All departments making profits with all but one having improved numbers over previous year... Kaz will step down having really accomplished his mission.

Great numbers overall, though Sony pictures should be higher with Emoji Movie and Spiderman: Homecoming been out this FY

I don't know where you got those numbers from..... the real numbers are more like this.

• Nintendo total 2017 year 1000bl YEN net sales, 160bl YEN profit
• Sony GAME division 2017 year 1940bl YEN net sales, 180bl YEN profit
• SONY corp 2017 year 8500bl YEN net sales, 720bl YEN profit

The cannot just ignore the mobile phone market. Its simply too big a market to ignore. They however need to take it more seriously. Like they are just not being competitive in where it counts as far as mobile phones go. Take for instance, the Xperia line has looked identical since 2011 or so. Thats just not cutting it, every major trend in cell phone market has been ignored and poorly implemented. Like they are making phones for who I do not know. Honestly shocks me they even still manage to sell 4M of them.

Yh.... I think this all happened cause at the end of Q3 2016 they had a surplus in the channels. Over 3M. Shipments had to be adjusted to clear the channels which led to a situation where in FY 2017 they have to ship less total consoles than they did in FY 2016 (19M for 2017 vs. 20M for 2016). 

By their next fiscal report, if sony announces flat or higher shipment estimates than 2017 for the fiscal year 2018, then thats a good indication that at some point they plan on dropping to $199 this year. If they announce shipment estimates that are even lower, then it could mean they don't plan on dropping price anytime soon.

I definitly don't want them to ignore the mobile market, or sell off all of their patents like some suggest. I just think the best thing they can do at this point is go after a different segment of the market. The casual smartphone consumers that buy their iPhone or Galaxy every 2 years are not going to switch to a Sony phone on Android playing me too regaurdless of what they do.

At this point they are better off trying something new that offers  a phone expereince unlike anything else on the market. Even if a PlayStation Phone line is a niche market that only sells around the same rate they are currently, the massive increase in profits and mindshare from running their own OS, and connecting all users to the PlayStation Store would be a huge step forward from the continued loss of marketshare and the tight rope they walk in terms of profit.

Running Android and trickling out me too phones is not going to get them anywhere. It is actually working against the advancement of their own OS and Online Ecosystem. It is time they stop playing non profit for Google, and start building toward a solid future for Sony.

We're all doomed. We'll all end up dead one day and billions of years from now, the oceans will boil away as the sun consumes the Earth. All Earthly matter, from centuries-old civilizations to the little toys that help men get through their day, converted to fuel the sun's burning, burning that will also cease one day and it will seem as if it too was pointless in the end.

We're all pawns in a universal irony.

Hell yeah, excellent results and all but 1 division are up from last year.