http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/fr/08q4_sonypre.pdf

page 12/12. It is easier this way.

I cant see how this is good...hope they dont start to cut money from the games division.

Oh, thanks. They also have an image of that:

You know I could be mistaken, but it looks like Sony came out ok. We all knew this was gonna be a rough quarter with the economy, but it looks like they did ok considering. They certainly could have done worse.

The software figures for FY March 2010 seem a bit high to me, but its certaintly possible.

Of the 240m predicted it looks like over half will have to be on PS3 though. PSP software rates are likely to drop to ~0.67 from ~1.0 this year on a games purchased per the 65m user basis...which is like 43m games, down from 50m this year. Without strong hardware sales the PSP software market would be irrelevant already. These rates assume the new PSP Go is introduced successfully as well.

PS2 sw dipped by over 70m this fiscal year. With hardware at 5m for the year its hard to imagine software totals over 55m for PS2.

They forecast 240m games shipped though, so I get about 140m PS3 games shipped in the fiscal year, which would dip the games per user rate from 4.5 this fiscal year to 4 in the next fiscal year. Seems a little optimistic to me on 13m PS3s even with a price cut likely justifying an extra game purchase for most new users.

As I said in my opening tirade, the real problem for Sony is that PS2/PSP software totals should amount to as little as 50m-60m in the following fiscal year, and even though PS3 will probably grow again the company is in a real danger of not seeing software shipments top 200m in a few years.

FY 3/2009 - PSP + PS2 = 134m / PS3 - 103m

FY 3/2010 - PSP + PS2 = 97m/ PS3 - 143m  (240m)

FY 3/2011 - PSP + PS2 = 55m / PS3 - 160m (215m)

FY 3/2012 - PSP + PS2 = 25m / PS3 - 140m  (165m)

To me, it looks like they should probably try to launch PSP2 in late 2010 so that they don't dip under 200m. PS4 would make sense in late 2011.

The worst part is that they're forecasting an equal loss in this fiscal year.

now that all the various segments will be reported together, this is the last time we'll get a "clear" picture for SCE

or am I wrong?

$600mil down for SCE is not too bad considering everything imo. could have been a lot worse.

On the whole, -$1.3bil adj.OI for SONY seems pretty much in line with what they were expecting.

true, I wish all 3 console makers would make profits tho = /

edit: Why is blu ray so important to sony, did they invent it or whatever? And where are the profits from it? Just curious...

Seems like SNE stock will drop tomorrow

PS3 sales are currently on target for < 9million (10% down on last year). They will need to shift nearly 50% more PS3 then current momentum to achieve this. I just can't see how that is possible without a $100 pricecut within the next few months.

Unless they have managed to make significant improvements to it's hardware complexity, I don't see how they can do that profitably.