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sony will lose 330 million dollars in their game division- you heard it here first!!



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Slimebeast said:
So how many million $ in losses do u perdict for the quarter NJ5?

I perdict -$90 million.

It's hard to predict individual divisions, with that said:

Holiday quarter 2007: $132m profit (by today's exchange rate, keeping this simple)

Jan-Mar quarter 2008: $118m loss

Holiday quarter 2008: $4m profit

So what changed from Jan-Mar last year?

On the positive side, PS3 software sales improved and hardware cost decreased. On the negative side, exchange rates are worse, and PS2 / PSP HW/SW sales are worse as well.

I wouldn't be surprised if these factors cancel each other and the loss is as big as last year (around $100m-$200m). Perhaps a bit more since holiday 2007 was better than this one. It's just a rough guess though.

 



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I don't really care about it. And I don't know why I should. I don't have stocks.



 

Lostplanet22 said:
I don't really care about it. And I don't know why I should. I don't have stocks.

Because the financial results might determine the extent of the restructuring that will happen at Sony's gaming business.

 



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NJ5 said:
Slimebeast said:
So how many million $ in losses do u perdict for the quarter NJ5?

I perdict -$90 million.

It's hard to predict individual divisions, with that said:

Holiday quarter 2007: $132m profit (by today's exchange rate, keeping this simple)

Jan-Mar quarter 2008: $118m loss

Holiday quarter 2008: $4m profit

So what changed from Jan-Mar last year?

On the positive side, PS3 software sales improved and hardware cost decreased. On the negative side, exchange rates are worse, and PS2 / PSP HW/SW sales are worse as well.

I wouldn't be surprised if these factors cancel each other and the loss is as big as last year (around $100m-$200m). Perhaps a bit more since holiday 2007 was better than this one. It's just a rough guess though.

 

This might also mean that PS3 is cheaper. We don't know what currency is used but since consoles are produced in china (IIRC) it's probably USD

 



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Zlejedi said:
NJ5 said:
Slimebeast said:
So how many million $ in losses do u perdict for the quarter NJ5?

I perdict -$90 million.

It's hard to predict individual divisions, with that said:

Holiday quarter 2007: $132m profit (by today's exchange rate, keeping this simple)

Jan-Mar quarter 2008: $118m loss

Holiday quarter 2008: $4m profit

So what changed from Jan-Mar last year?

On the positive side, PS3 software sales improved and hardware cost decreased. On the negative side, exchange rates are worse, and PS2 / PSP HW/SW sales are worse as well.

I wouldn't be surprised if these factors cancel each other and the loss is as big as last year (around $100m-$200m). Perhaps a bit more since holiday 2007 was better than this one. It's just a rough guess though.

 

This might also mean that PS3 is cheaper. We don't know what currency is used but since consoles are produced in china (IIRC) it's probably USD

 

The exchange rates aren't helping Sony, they have stated there was negative impact from currencies at the gaming division.

It's likely that many of the components are paid in USD (it's a quite standard currency for international trade), but that doesn't really help since the Euro and British Pound went down against the USD. 

 



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I just know they MET THEIR GOALS with the PS3 sales for the fiscal year ending March 31st (which they did focused on reaching it without cutting prices a single cent). I doubt the MS games division was too happy after slashing their prices so aggresively and got the results they got. Those guys are in a world of pain right now TOO, and worst of all their hands are pretty tied for the rest of the year.



Hopefully the losses are low, or at least on par with what MS's were. The less losses for each company, the better it is for gaming.



and xbox 360 by 7 times. imagine the real FF13 week