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Sony pictures really needs to lift up their game :/
"Gamers are making up all of our profits, what do we do?"
"It's obvious now, we court them. We need to make Pixels 2."
Sony pictures really needs to lift up their game :/
A lot of people in the Microsoft FY report thread predicting Sony to be down YoY as well due to NPD results, but that seems like quite a big leap. What was the FY 2015-2014 comparison?
Sony pictures really needs to lift up their game :/
After the Nintendo thing, Sony is going to be sitting pretty in the console space for a long time. :\
Microsoft is after PC market now with a option for console only fans of the xbox exclusive games.
Putting all their eggs in one basket for it all to come tumbling down one day? Sounds goo- bad!
lot of pressure on spidey
weren't there some earthquakes stopping sonys display panel production?
... as well as decreases in sales in the Semiconductors and Imaging Products & Solutions (“IP&S” segments due to the impact of the earthquakes in the Kumamoto region in 2016 (“2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes”.
Indeed. I still believe Sony should just move into gaming and insurance company here. Their mobile phone and TV business is more or less money pit now. Why waste money chasing bad market here.T_T
People not catching that I was parodying people who keep saying Nintendo should go third party/mobile after the success of Pokemon Go really vindicates me being bewildered about those posts.
I mean come on guys, "go video game party"? Who says that.
In all fairness, the reality check came when investors were found to have invested because they didn't bother really looking into it before Nintendo flat out had to tell them about how Pokemon Go profits worked and the stock dropped down again.
However we ALWAYS expected them to have a rough Quarter because of how everything's mostly stalled, all things considered.
Indeed. I still believe Sony should just move into gaming and insurance company here. Their mobile phone and TV business is more or less money pit now. Why waste money chasing bad market here.T_T
21 billion yen profit. Isn't that around £153m only? For the whole company for the quarter?
That's pretty tiny isn't it? For comparison, Samsung posted 2nd quater profits of £5.46 billion yesterday.
Someone tell me this isn't right. I know profits did slump 74% due to earthquake and strength of Yen but still.
21 billion yen profit. Isn't that around £153m only? For the whole company for the quarter?
That's pretty tiny isn't it? For comparison, Samsung posted 2nd quater profits of £5.46 billion yesterday.
Someone tell me this isn't right. I know profits did slump 74% due to earthquake and strength of Yen but still.
Love these kinds of posts.
Neo better be good or else PS4 will finally track behind PS2.
A lot of people in the Microsoft FY report thread predicting Sony to be down YoY as well due to NPD results, but that seems like quite a big leap. What was the FY 2015-2014 comparison?
Oh come on, the corporation used to generate loss for a long time and now that they're finally out of red it's not enough?!
Sony pictures really needs to lift up their game :/
Well, people think MS should get rid of Xbox division under same notion.
i understood
Samsung is on a whole other scale, they have heavy industry divisions that make ships. it's in a class like GE or Mitsubishi.
I have 99 solutions but Ghostbusters ain't one.
Sony pictures really needs to lift up their game :/
Then last year, everyone urged Sony to get rid of the mobile segment, when there was the huge impairment of goodwill (I mean, even Microsoft lost several billion dollars because of that same restructuration kind of thing with Nokia last year). And oh look : the mobile segment is just back in the black this quarter.
Whole other scale? Yeah, and that's sad. Sony used to be bigger than Samsung a decade ago. Look at the different directions each has gone over the years.
It's only sad for me as I like Sony products (consoles mainly). But yeah, I also think the Samsung Galaxy brand is the best smartphone brand in the world (typing with S6 right now).
Ok, even if that happened it would still be doing fantastic numbers, just falling behind one of the fastest selling game consoles would be bad now?.Neo better be good or else PS4 will finally track behind PS2.
Whole other scale? Yeah, and that's sad. Sony used to be bigger than Samsung a decade ago. Look at the different directions each has gone over the years.
It's only sad for me as I like Sony products (consoles mainly). But yeah, I also think the Samsung Galaxy brand is the best smartphone brand in the world (typing with S6 right now).
They still need 5mn per quarter to reach 20mn in FY 2016.
after the whole "Nintendo is now more valuable than Sony"
Sony sales Q1 (game division only) --> 330 billion yen
Nintendo sales Q1 (entire company) --> 62 billion yen
Kinda of bodes badly for the rest of the company, doesn't it?
yeah, it's pretty awful actually. if the ps4 stumbled out of the gate Sony as a whole could have been in serious shit.
Is there any other segment this company is good at anymore?
Good result.
Holiday sales more then make up for the deficit in this quarter.
Great results and I agree that Sony Pictures need to step there game up, one thing I never understood is with the PlayStation division owning so many IPs why Sony Pictures dont take advantage of that and make movies based on them.
Great results and I agree that Sony Pictures need to step there game up, one thing I never understood is with the PlayStation division owning so many IPs why Sony Pictures dont take advantage of that and make movies based on them.
Im not talking about the low budget low effort Ratchet and Heavenly sword stuff but just go all out with a medium to big budget game movies directed and written by good people
That would have got them at least a few hits they could expand on.
This probably has more to with downsizes than the mobile division doing good by itself (units and revenue both are down big time). They are planning to scale down operations in multiple regions (eg. China, US, India)
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_mobile_plans_to_move_away_from_india_china_and_the_us-news-19156.php
No they were never as big as samsung, maybe in share market value (at certain points in time) but a post war consumer electronic company is not in the same league as vast pre war conglomerates that builds/straddles defence/aerospace/ships/POL like Samsung, GE or Mitsubishi.
It wasnt all that long ago that I awoke to the buzz of a Sony clock radio, that I jogged in the park to the beat of the tunes on my Sony Walkman, and that I watched whatever television I had time to watch on a Sony entertainment system. It wasnt all that long ago in real time, but in brand time, it was eons ago. Sony, once the king of the hill in its category, has been handily eclipsed by Samsung, and this state of affairs is reflected in millions of global consumers household electronics devices. Sony, which once defined worldwide technical superiority is now in an incredibly vulnerable position. What happened? How does a brand as ubiquitously popular as Sony slide so precipitously, not just in brand loyalty, but also in market value? Perhaps, the more constructive question in terms of brand building is: What has Samsung been doing right?
Is this 20011? Sony just came out of a period where everyone thought they were just going to pack it up entirely. They are nowhere near as big a company as they were in the 90s.
Yes but last financial year Sony posted profits of over $1bn. I thought they were going to kick on from there but it seems they are going backwards again.
Either you are very young or you don't remember 10-15 years ago. Sony were bigger. Much bigger than Samsung way back when.
The Top Three Things Samsung Did To Surpass Sony
http://www.forbes.com/sites/allenad...ngs-samsung-did-to-surpass-sony/#669148f94426
Yes but last financial year Sony posted profits of over $1bn. I thought they were going to kick on from there but it seems they are going backwards again.
There's no deficit this quarter. They are up over Q1 2015. They could hit near 20 million just by having a 0.5 million increase every quarter like this one for the rest of FY2016.
(Unless I misunderstood you, then disregard this post)