Statements such as these perplex me to no end. How can you with a straight face speak about surviving at one moment, and then at another moment talk about curtailing expansion. Wouldn't the latter be a foregone conclusion. Are they actually still considering expansion as a viable model in this economy. This company is going to go bankrupt if it cannot move beyond lust.

Well I figure as long as the games they make, sell pretty well, they break even no? As far as I know, most Sony produced titles are doing just fine, and they have content on they're store, which is pretty much strait profit xD I can't imagine that they're gaming division by itself is dragging the company down all that much. Maybe because a good majority of it's games aren't released yet, but when they are I'm pretty sure they'll do ok.

 the latest numbers published by sony in October reported a 400 million USD loss in that quarter. The quarter before reported a 700 million loss, I think. So no, it is not profitable.

Sony is a company that is (primarily) focused on premium products at a time when more and more people favour more "budget" products, in an ecconomic climate that will push people to spend less on unnecessary things.

@Dirty, but that includes the losses of the PS3 as a console as well, which as I mentioned isn't due to the gaming developers themselves :P The PS3 was a trojan for Sony pushing so many different things into the market, almost none of which having anything to do with the division it'self. That just happens to be the division the project was written off under.

 Goldman Sachs had the highest profit/employee in 2007, they lost 2.1 billion $ last quarter.

Things can change fast...

Not looking good for ol Sony.

Nintendo is fairly transparent, GS was not. We know what Nintendo is selling and how they make money. It was not at all clear with GS. GS was heavily leveraged. Nintendo has a cash surplus.

There are almost no similarties between these companies.

Doomed is a really gloom way to put it. The company employs close to 180,000 people so what we have seen so far is a 5% drop. Sony has survived through every other economic downturn since 194_. Things will hopefully get better when the world economy comes out of this slump.

Nintendo doesn't have nearly the same amount of risk as Goldman Sachs did. They don't even have debt, none.