This is pure rentier idiocy. Total losses are under 1% of annual sales, far less than many other companies, despite the depth of the recession. Sony doesn't have much debt and has plenty of cash flow, so it doesn't need the extra cash. This notion of giving the money to "shareholders" is a sick joke -- a polite way of saying, forking billions over to a bunch of greedy, self-interested oligarchic scum who don't know a frame-rate from an interest rate, and whose speculative folly screwed up the world-economy so bad, it needed a $4 trillion (and counting) government bailout financed by ordinary taxpayers like you and me.

Here's a better idea: instead of financing the yachts and private jets of Wall Street overlords, Sony does what it always does -- spend money on world-class studios, top-tier technology and great games.

Sony needs to get smaller. Their biggest problem is that they never seem to get it or try even understand their market as a whole. every product they release is either too expensive or completely weird.
They need new management, visionaries who understand what people want and actually focuses on these needs. Sony is out of touch, it's been a while now. I really get angry thinking of what the PSP could have been if the right focus was given to it, and its such a great product. Very sad indeed.

Think about it, when apple are releasing full fledge iphone for 199 to 299 with touch screen , sony is giving u a 250 psp.