Wow, that's a lot of money.

" Howard Stringer believes Sony has to change it’s current direction and focus on software."

In other words, adopt the Microsoft model...so much for the power of the cell...

http://talkplaystation.com/scee-safe-for-now/

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/33024/Sony-confirms-game-business-losses

Gaming div(other than European divs) might get on that frying pan too. ;P

Yikes the thread is broken.

The edit post links are not visible.

I think the only way I can fix the thread is by perma-banning theprof00, thus making his posts disappear. xD

Hang on, I'll mess around in his post history and see what I can do.

Yay!

I found the post ID from his history, and just tacked it on at the end of the URL for another post editing window.

SCEA should be safe.  Their developers in general produce more big hitting franchises than SCEE (God of War, Uncharted, Jak & Daxter - though Killzone 2 may swing the tide in SCEE's favor).

I could see SCEI being affected in some ways.  Lowering R&D on future consoles/handhelds, axing some of those 2nd party contracts with oddball developers for extremely niche titles that'll never leave Japan (that horse sim, among others).

You make some good points but bear this in mind: that's not how corproate politics work and doubly-so in a very Japanese corporation with a Westerner at its head--the Japanese managers are going to demand that some blood be spilt from the foreign divisions, even if it's counter-productive (and they'll get it, too).

Also note: I am not saying entire divisions will be cut from SCEA et al, but there will be lay-offs, have no doubts about that--Sony has way, way too much fat to trim to spare them completely.

FishyJoe you seem to be little bit obsessed with Sony losing money. We all saw that news, its on main page of the web site