Japan needs a 10,000 USD stimulus package. =P

I'm serious by the way - that would murder the Yen's value.

which would be good but what is also needed is the Yuan to increase in value. Reason being is that even a 5% increase for the Yuan would help keep jobs in our countries.

Ouch, bad for Sony

I dunno. If there was a company like "Nazi Kitten Exterminators", I wouldn't mind them taking a loss.

Just to clarify, I mean a company of Nazis that kill kittens. If there was a company that killed Nazi kittens, I would be all for it.

So the electronics division is giving them grief. They'll probably have to stop making Hi-Fi's and VHS machines now. Probably cut down either their CRT TV range or Plasma TV ranges too.
Probably focus more in the movies, SonyBMG and games software now.
Luckily for gamers, they don't seem to have blamed the gaming division for their troubles! (yet)

Didn't Sony say something like they are are firing 16000 people and restructure the company to reduce 1.1 million USD? That would be like +/- 0 then.

It is kind of funny that this thread is right above the thread "Will Sony buy WKC-developers now?" or something like that. I don't see Sony anything in the next year.

And another proof that "HipHopGamer" isn't the best source out there. But maybe Nikkei is wrong and HipHop Gamer is right. Who knows?

lol that would be one for the history books!

As for buying L5, um...I dunno...maybe it could be a good idea - IF they could pump good, high selling games out of there (even for PSN) as fast as humanly possible.

they probably lose the most money on tv's and stuff.

Didn't they predict a $2Billion PROFIT or something? It will be interesting to see the numbers because as mentioned Sony could of been telling some pretty big lies last year to try and improve consumer confidence in their products.