You mean Sony right? Not SCE.

I agree that Sony will have a bad Quarter, but not as bad as you say. The exchange rate only affects part of their busienss, since they have business all over the world.
Don't expect a loss for Sony, but if things continue we might see a loss for SCE, which is devestating in the most important Q of the year. LBP, Motorstorm and Resistance didn't sell amazing and are not the profit makers SCE needs. Another negative financial year will seriously affect SCE I'm afraid. Sony was very unhappy last year, but this year they won't have the means to carry the SCE burden anymore, because the whole company is performing bad.

I doubt it.  Make Multiplatform games, make 360 exclusive games or make wii games.

Considering the Wii game option isn't a favorite among some developers....

Make a 360 game or spend an extra 15% for a PS3 version?

Seems like an obvious choice to me.  PS3 can sell more then 15% the software of the 360.

Wow. So much Sony hate in here.

OT:

I'll take Burgles' phrase to describe this weeks sales.

Wow... Just WOW!

@nightssurge.......................going from ur reasoning.......the 399 ps3 outselling the previously priced 360 obviously it proved more value to consumer............if sony manufactured ps3 with an even closer margain that was previous if u know what i mean........then it wud stand to reason according to wat u said regarding major ps3 price drop..........ps3e would again outsell 360

I mean Sony as a whole. 80% of their sales are done overseas (which I took into account), and the numbers I put in my post are actually less than half of the losses which would happen if all their business was concentrated in Japan.

The same analysis correctly predicted their drop in profits in the second quarter, but hedging might also interfere with it which is why I said $1.5 billion instead of the $3 billion which would happen under normal conditions.

I'll bet anyone that Sony will be in the red this quarter.

No PS4 ?!

I love it, sales numbers change around for a short time, suddenly the outcome of the entire gen is set in stone.

You people are hilarious.

So when did a thread about American Sales become a thread about whether or not Sony as a whole would make money this quarter?

Please, keep the Sony bashing about financials in the proper thread.

1. My point wasn't that the PS3 was performing better than the 360 , my point was there is still more desire for the PS3 than there is the 360 . The PS3 would perform far better at an equal price point , that can't be disputed.

2. Are you responding to my point or pulling stuff outa your arse ? . The 360's is highly dependant on it's predatory price point for it's huge sales , the further you push the price up the bigger the sales drop off you'll witness . For most of this year the PS3 was "destroying" the 360 with a much higher price point but it was combination of the 360 price cut (bringing it in the price range of the PS2/PSP) and the ecnomic situation which played to the PS3's disadvantage.

It can't be argued in anyway that the PS3 is outperforming the 360 in any tangiable way but what I am trying to demonstrate is the competetivness of the PS3 and it's sales potential ,the 360 has the advantage for now but it wouldn't take much more than a price cut to eat that lead away (obviously a price cut would have serious implications for Sony and is looking very unlikely until spring.)