I've already got one bet in my sig! There's no room for any more! lol

I'll try and squeeze it in.

Edit: Oh.  You meant if we lose.  Okay.

How long should we leave it there?  A month?

This is a worst case scenario? "They won't drop the price on the PS3"?

that busy huh...  

im just asking for a line, is there a cap on sig size, i know it had been talked about for awhile about a year ago then the talk died off  (someone was banned once for too long a sig)  .... 

*edit just looked at your sign up date your even longer here then me by a month in change... though i was a bit of a voyeur on the site for about 4 months. it seems like these day all these new members are here now and dont remember the crazy old posters 

sure, i dont know what the standard time is, ill probably forget its down there and leave it there longer if i lose 

For SCE, I believe so.  They managed to pull a profit last holiday quarter, and the same is likely this holiday quarter, given that they're losing less on the ps3.

The ps3's sales are dying at $399, and it's likely that'll continue into 2009.  As a result, they'll be losing even less on the ps3 than they were before, especially with further reductions in the cost of hardware.  After that, it's up to software sales, particularly the first party stuff (of which they'll be releasing quite a bit early next year), to pick up the slack.

Aside from that they'll probably weed out some of their weaker studios, like the team working on the NBA series.

These things should be enough to offset the effect of increasing/decreasing currencies, plus most of their software is developed and manufactured nowhere near Japan.

Edit:

Really, outside of hardware (and most ps3s are made in China now anyway), most of SCE's workforce is housed outside of Japan.  They have far more development studios in North America and Europe than in Japan (though R&D on new hardware takes place mostly in Japan - but how much R&D would they be doing right now?).

As a result, the currency issues should effect SCE far less than other parts of Sony, as a larger portion of the division's expenses (salaries and the like) aren't being paid for in Yen.

Well, we can hope that a bunch of pissed off stockholders ends up agreeing with you.

Supposedly the costs of the Cell were hidden within the other divisions by Kutaragi. Remember, the Cell was his baby and it was planned to be put in just about every CE product Sony was making. Thus some of the R&D cost promised for the Cellphone and TV divisions was funneled into the Cell, since those products would eventually get the processor.

This is part of the reason why Kutaragi got the axe.

PS3 was sold initially in its first year for $300 loss per console sold.

1st year: 7 million PS3's were sold in its first year = $2.1 billion in losses on PS3 just on sales.

2nd year: 11 million PS3's sold in its second year at $50 to $100 loss per console = $500 million to $1.1 billion in losses on PS3 sales.

Ok, now. We have no hard data because you are just pulling that info out of nowhere.

And what I find most surprising is that Sony almost has double the workforce than Microsoft. That's what surprises me.