Um its called "splits", you should look it up! When stocks split they their prices and cut in half or more! Sony has done it at least twice since 1985. Though the stock is down from the 40's where it has been all year. The battery reports really started to hurt it as more companies started issuing recalls on those batteries. But that's how Wall St. works
Well once Microsoft's stock was at 60, but now it's well below 30 if my memory serves me right. MART, you're no business analyst; you're not a stockbroker. You don't know what you're talking about.
Man you don't even know what I do in stock and what not.
Let's say this. Yeah the shares of both companies had an old time high around the year 2000. Sony's stock even was worth 160 dollar once. MS at that time 60 dollars indeed. But falling from 160 to less then 40, or from 60 to around 30 that's a whole other story. Sony's share has 25% of it's original value back then, MS still has 50%.
You want to have info about how they're doing my friend? Here you are:
Sony: Financial HighlightsSales 64.40 Bil Income 1.36 Bil Net Profit Margin 1.80% Return on Equity 5.34% Debt/Equity Ratio 0.36 Revenue/Share 59.90 Earnings/Share 1.36 Book Value/Share 26.65 Dividend Rate 0.21 Payout Ratio 15.00%
Microsoft Financial HighlightsSales 44.28 Bil Income 12.60 Bil Net Profit Margin 28.45% Return on Equity 28.56% Debt/Equity Ratio 0.00 Revenue/Share 4.21 Earnings/Share 1.20 Book Value/Share 3.99 Dividend Rate 0.40 Payout Ratio 29.00%
Now there you go. Satisfied? Also knowing that Sony is loosing about 600 million dollars every quarter already for years now? Just took a multimillion dollar bank loan for the first time in 10 years because they couldn't finance the PS3 adventure and the BR gamble? Do you? I know more about it all then you will ever know mate
I know that if Sony was "loosing" [sic] money every quarter that financial statement wouldn't show a profit of any kind. I made no claims to be any sort of business analyst, all I said was that you are definitely not one. You're just an idiot fanboy. Get over yourself, go play your 360, and stop with this all of this pointless hating that you do.
Did I ever say I was a stockbroker? But I do have some insight in it actually.
Did or didn't I was right that Sony is a company in distress? The company is having problems never seen before AND:
BluRay as well as PS3 are both big gambles. The biggest gamble is having BluRay IN the PS3. That's gamble on gamble.
If both turn out to not bring up what they predicted (and loosing another massive 3 billion dollars on every 10 million PS3's sold and yes I know they have to make it up by selling games and so, but still they have to invest first. And you know the attach rate of the original PS2? 1.9 games per console at launch? 360 had 4.5 games per console at launch? See what I mean?), Sony is not doing well.
If they ever were on the edge of a cliff, it's today. And you'll agree. If not, you're just plain dumb
Do you even read your comments? "Did or didn't I was right that Sony is a company in distress?"....What?
First: "The company is having problems never seen before" There have been recalls before, recalls that were much more detrimental to business, in fact. Remember Bridgestone-Firestone? They had to recall millions of tires that KILLED people. And yet, somehow their company survived? And they're company's not even nearly as diverse as Sony; they make tires that's it. So, for some reason, I don't understand your recall=inevitable collapse point.
I also don't agree with you that the ps3 is a gamble. It has an enormous prior install base, and if half of them return to the playstation brand then Sony will be perfectly fine. Also, bluray in the ps3 isn't really a gamble. Even if bluray isn't adopted it's not like it suddenly makes it worthless. It's still a GAME console, that can play GAMES and the format wouldn't make a difference.
Sony makes money on every game sold for the ps3, and on every bluray disc sold. Also, the ps2 and 360 launch attach rate depends on the games not the hardware. The ps2 is generally regarded as having a very weak launch lineup, while the 360 had a fairly strong launch lineup. Wait until November to draw conclusions about ps3 software sales, MART.
So I don't really agree with your premise, MART, that Sony is teetering on the edge of a precipice, ready to plummet to their bankruptcy. I just don't see that happening here.
developers will lose half of their incentive to release and optimize games for the PS3. The real problem with Blu-ray for gaming is that PS3 will lose half the titles that could be released if PS3 was around $400. Kissing off 1000 to 2000 game titles is a problem even for those who can scrape up $600.
People if you look at the companies stock (Sony's and MS's) they are both flat/sideways (or if you prefer, in a "trading range") since 2001! So both companies have been performing on par stock wise with each other. The Sony stock is more volatile than the MS stock, but that also makes the MS stock more boring. If you want a very slow moving, but fairly safe stock than go with MS, but dont expect to make much money fast. If you want a stock that could yield you more money, but is also potentially more risky than go with Sony's. But that's how stocks usually work. If you go with the safer stock than you tend to make less money. If you go with the riskier stock, then you then to usually make more. MS is basically a monopoly too, in its field, where it virtually has no competiton and controls its field. Whereas Sony does not! they have real competitors. So of course Sony is in a more volatile situation. But MS can also get hurt too. Just look at the last earnings report where MS dropped from $27-29 to $23, and has since slow clibed back up there (to $27, but mind you has taken about 3 months), because of the loss of money from the XBOX360. Yes thats right, because of the XBOX360. Remember that these companies sell you these systems at a loss, and the more they sell the more they are losing, but they make up the loss through the sale of games. But they still reported a loss and said it was due to the cost of producing the XBOX360. So I guess that they werent able to sell enough games to make up for the loss on the system.
I remember going to GameStop, I went with my friend because we saw a rare PS1 game we wanted to buy. ''And I played it before and it ROCKS!'' ''Valkyrie Profile'' And when I showed the cashier the case of the VP, he said ''Dude, that game sucks! Get an X Box with Halo! Are u gonna buy that crappy PS1 game?'' The thing is my friend had ALREADY owned an X Box with Halo and he got bored from it and pawned it at a pawnshop. So my friend took the dude's word for it and returned the game. After we exited GameStop. I told my friend ''Why the f*** did he listened to him?! I told my friend that I had played the game for myself and that the guy was BSing him! So my friend went back in there and bought the game. After we were leaving, the guy was whispering stuff behind our backs sa that we are complete morons for buying a PS1 game? That I have played and enjoyed? My friend was angry at them for trying to FORCE products that my friend does NOT have enough money for and does NOT have any interest in. And all of this happened in 2 years ago which was in 2004! And this was before I knew about fanboyism. I never knew about fanboyism at that time. You see we Sony fans may defend and say our product's better, but atleast we don't try to FORCE people to buy it. We don't go in a store and tell someone, dude that 360 game SUCKS! And this is TRUTH!
That's the key word! They will always try to sell you something that costs more no matter what it is. If you walk into a store to buy a max $20 game from years ago of course he will try to convince you that you are dumb and should buy a whole new system for one higher priced game. That is his job! Go to Best Buy if you don't want that!
I voted Cool. Not because I'm a Sony hater (I am, but follow me), but because this is a time for accountability.
Is it really NEW that Sony is screwing up? -Betamax -UMD -PSX Media Center Console (most people don't remember that one at all!) -PSP problems during shipping (dead pixels abounding, offset X buttons, flying UMDs...) -PS1 had some terrible disc drive issues. -The new scandal with burning laptop batteries.
It's time for Sony to wake up and smell the coffee- they're going to lose their coveted status as the #1 brand in the world (according to many opinion polls), and they're going to go downhill hard when it happens.
And that's not all! The battery recalls are costing the company millions, PS3 price cuts are costing million in ADDITION TO a projected multi-billion-dollar initial loss on PS3 (from manufacturing to advertising). And Sony's already had a lot of earnings problems meaning it can't take these shortfalls as easily as it once could- the company had to take a loan from investors just to MAKE the PS3!
Wake up, Sony! The world misses your dedication to excellence. We really do want to see you get over this.
And fire Kutaragi. He's an ass. -"PS3 will ship in Spring 2006." -"Ps3 is ready. I can ship PS3 anytime I want!" (a month before revealing the delay to Winter 06) -"PS3 will be in 4d." -"All PS3 games will be in 1080p at 120fps." -"There is no difference in features between the 20GB and 60GB models." -"PS3 is a personal computer."
Man, Sony as of right now, cause of no announcements to answers that gamers want to know of about PS3, they keep post-poning the Launch, they keep showing CGI videos instead of real in-game footage (except for very few who are shoeing in game right now), losing game developers, losing a lot of fanbase, and the price, SONY AND THE PS3 is not only taking hits, they are totally in the sh!ter, and the only way to get out is to stop BullSh!ting and tell the gamers what they want to know and see. But still, im still getting PS3, just cause of the Technology and the Games. But im saying this from a person who may not be able to afford it or really hate Sony right now, Sony is really in the SH!TER.
the article made a point i didn't think of before.
i paid little attention to the overheating problem Sony had at the tokyo game show but...
this article said that the playstations acted up and had to be reset probably due to over-heating because of the high temp. of the venue although M$ and nintendo had playable units too.
in other words, if the over heating was due to the temp. @ the game show, how come M$ and Nintendo did not suffer similar fates?
Because of the crowds of people. People sweat and esp. in an enclosed building, the more people around an area, the more they start to sweat. Now the big thing everyone went to TGS for was to play PS3 and experience it 1st hand. And because people sweat and cause a lot of heat, and almost everyone was around the PS3 area, the temperatures in the PS3 area were most likely a lot hotter than those in the M$ and Nintendo (although nintendo wasnt there). And also cause with the PS3's being on 24/7 and people playing them non-stop, with long line-ups to try one particular game, they could have overheated, and also cause the PS3s they used were one of the 1st 200 ever made, so now that theyve had this, and looked at all the over-heating issues and all the PS3's problems, they can now successfully go on and start production, knowing what they have to do to get them working properly. basically TGS was a lesson for them, onto how to improve the performance of the PS3. But I still think they overheated just cause of being on to long and because its a new technology, obv. there will be some that over-heat or dont function right. Look at 360. i think it was about 60% of all 360s made for launch were malfunctioning. Ive had 1 360 overheat, but i just got a new one for free. But overheating is an issue that every console has, so just as long as you have a warranty, then your alright.
but im gald i payed it, cause a) I got a brand new 360 and havent had any probelms with ir or anything, b) they issued me another one, so if it breaks down again before Dec.31, i get another one free and c) I won mine in that Pepsi Contest (1 every hour of evry day), so 130 isnt much. So yea i am disappointed that it happend to me in the 1st place, but with games like Gears, COD3, Lost Planet and Mass Effect, im glad i have one and cant wait for those games.
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It feels like Sony is doing every thing they can to stay above water. I hope the internal batteries in the joystick are safe too.
A recall is never a good thing. That means they have had more than a few isolated problems.
I remember last winter there was rumors of the 360 being recalled like this because of heat problem. I remember this very well because a guy at my job was smiling really big when he told me. He said "Have you herd a bout the 360 recall? ; ^ ) I heard M$ made a piece of crap!!" And he knew I was a 1 every 10 min. winner. Every one at work did. I wonder what he thinks now.
60% of 360's over heated? Wow are we on the same planet? That is an extreme exaggeration.
For a console to over heat due to body temperatures in an arena. Come on lets be real hear. If you have ever been to a car show, sports dome or convention center or arena you would know they do not get hot like night clubs dude.
I really do not want anything else bad to happen but it do see another delay coming on. But I really hope not.
I'm still waiting for the stock to fall all the way down. It's at 37 and still going down.
Once the stock was on 120... Imagine that. A company in problems I smell
I remember going to GameStop, I went with my friend because we saw a rare PS1 game we wanted to buy. ''And I played it before and it ROCKS!'' ''Valkyrie Profile'' And when I showed the cashier the case of the VP, he said ''Dude, that game sucks! Get an X Box with Halo! Are u gonna buy that crappy PS1 game?'' The thing is my friend had ALREADY owned an X Box with Halo and he got bored from it and pawned it at a pawnshop. So my friend took the dude's word for it and returned the game. After we exited GameStop. I told my friend ''Why the f*** did he listened to him?! I told my friend that I had played the game for myself and that the guy was BSing him! So my friend went back in there and bought the game. After we were leaving, the guy was whispering stuff behind our backs sa that we are complete morons for buying a PS1 game? That I have played and enjoyed? My friend was angry at them for trying to FORCE products that my friend does NOT have enough money for and does NOT have any interest in. And all of this happened in 2 years ago which was in 2004! And this was before I knew about fanboyism. I never knew about fanboyism at that time. You see we Sony fans may defend and say our product's better, but atleast we don't try to FORCE people to buy it. We don't go in a store and tell someone, dude that 360 game SUCKS! And this is TRUTH!
I can't wait for my PS3, but for real ... that picture IS FRIGGEN' AWSOME !!
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