@Imperial: Nice cherry picking, showing yesterday's post list when pretty much nothing else interesting was going on...

@ Two pages worth mate that's about 60 posts.

even with your ridiculously high post count that's 5 days worth.

@Imperial: Obviously you ignore the concept of a timestamp... Anyway I should stop feeding the troll. Go post in some KZ2 thread or something like that.

I never noticed , it seems you have crammed 5 days worth of anti-ps3 posts/threads into 2.

IMPRESSIVE!

@Imperial: Again, these are not anti-ps3 threads, unless you somehow think discussing the facts of Sony's financial position is anti-PS3.

Rather funny that you'd start this drama in a thread which is positive for the PS3.

Could you run that one by me again, I'm not very good at economics.

The way I see it

The strength of a country's economy is a reflection of how well that country is doing. I thus can't see why the central bank would try to saboutage this.

I also am confused by the three statements below

* The Yen is doing very well

* The majority of Japanese countries are export companies

* Japanese export companies are doing badly.

Surely if the majority of Japanese companies are doing badly, then the value of the Yen would fall?

- For now, the Japanese economy is doing better than the American one.

- American and European banks have injected massive amounts of capital into the financial system which also makes the dollar/euro less valuable.

- The NA/EU central banks have been cutting interest rates in order to stem the possibility of deflation, whereas the Japanese interest rates were already pretty low so they can't go much lower.

It's going to take some major measures from the Japanese central bank to weaken the Yen, but I think they'll do it. I just don't know to what extent. They have said they're uncomfortable with the dollar below 90 yen (not a good level for Sony but slightly better than the current one).

The PS1 outsold all of Sega's consoles put together.

@Taxman: Sony has BD, which should be making profit for Sony, Cell is planned to be used in other applications than just PS3. And the size of that investment is just growing. And, if Sony would discontinue PS3, SCE would be posting profit the next quarter the production would end.

@vthokiesmroo: I need to point out only one game to beat the list: Wii Fit.
Yeah, the dominant console is decided in the first two years.

@Imperial: It's really interesting to see what Sony will do, since they are expected to post very heavy losses for the whole company (estimates range between 100 billion and 200 billion Yen). Sony has been in a pretty bad financial situation for years now, which means that Sony doesn't have much room to play with.
So, the threads are far from joking or trolling.

@scottie: I overly simplify the example to give a proper image:

1 USD 100 yen, japanese economy is doing good.
A japanese company has exports worth of 100 billion yen. The expenses are 90 billion.
1 USD 80 yen, japanese economy is doing badly.