Oooooh hell...

[Lise]

Sony takin' it up the wang.

Why do I have a feeling Planetside is going to be one of the first things 'downsized?'...

[TheRagingGerbil]

[ThEOnLyOnE]

Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!

[Doppler]

I cant see the link mostly because i'm at work and they dont like gamespy. However i dont believe much the hype machine puts out, secondly I really doubt planetside will get downside at least it makes money, several lesser known games in their linup might hit the AX, worse case scenario we might see a rate hike.

[Everay]

ummm, that is in yen, not dollar, and i dunno, but isnt there a SOE in japan and another division in america?

[TheRagingGerbil]

Methinks Everay is correct on the Japanese SOE and American SOE.

[Lise]

This is referring to the company as a whole. And they will cut smaller projects first - PS is as about as small as Sony is currently.

And hype machine nothing, these are hard numbers that Sony itself has put out. I got it off of Gamespy just because I haven't seen it elsewhere. Yet.

[THrONeBeaST]

why cut planetside , just throw some more ads on the loading screen

[Indecisive]

Originally Posted by Doppler

I cant see the link mostly because i'm at work and they dont like gamespy. However i dont believe much the hype machine puts out, secondly I really doubt planetside will get downside at least it makes money, several lesser known games in their linup might hit the AX, worse case scenario we might see a rate hike.

Same here. Please crosspost.

[keaoi]

Sony Profits Tumble
Entertainment juggernaut sees drop on PS2 software, film business.
Thursday October 23, 2003 | Prophet


Software sales slump in Q2.
Sony Corp. revealed today that profits dropped dramatically in the July-September quarter, dragged down by lower-than earnings from its videogame software (Sony Computer Entertainment) and a loss at its movie operations. SCE sales dipped nearly 36 percent during the second quarter, cutting deeply into the dicvision's profits by nearly 91 percent. Sony posted a group net profit of Y32.93 billion for the three-month period, down 25 percent from its year-earlier profit of Y44.05 billion. Group operating profit dipped 34 percent on year to Y33.21 billion, while group revenue edged up 0.4 percent to Y1.797 trillion from Y1.790 trillion . In the six month period that ended September 30th, Sony's group net profit fell 66 percent to Y34.05 billion from Y101.23 billion a year earlier, with a 3.2 percent decline in group revenue to Y3.401 trillion from Y3.512 trillion. Group operating profit fell 51 percent to Y49.89 billion. Sony also lowered its full-year operating profit target, reflecting the continued drag from its game business. Sony has cut back its software shipment expectations by about 10 million units to 240 million units by the end of the fiscal year, and plans to plans to lift its research & development spending on games by 50 percent to around Y90 billion this fiscal year. Sony will unveil a strategy to reorganize its operations next Tuesday that will detail job cuts and other cost-cutting measures. **1 U.S. dollar = 109.402 Japanese Yen at the time of this writing, according to XE.com (Universal Currency Converter)

[ThEOnLyOnE]

After reading the article again..
SOE doesnt apply.. this is more on PS2 software.. as we ps2 owners know..
theres alot of crappy games out there.. (so blame your self sony for allowing those crappy games to be published for your console).. the movies...

one word..
Gigli

thats all i have to say...

[Nitsch]

I read an article about Sonys downsize. Sounds like the cuts are comming mostly from manufacturing side (electronics sector not doing well for them). SOE is doing rather well (rather profitable part of the company).

I think the worst thing that will happen to SOE is that some old exec with tons of power who knows nothing about Online games will get transfered from their manufacturing side to SOE.... really screwing things up.

[Hamma]

I would not worry too much, it sounds like Sony Pictures isnt that hugly affected, and SOE is a division of Sony Pictures. Don't forget that Sony has so many damn divisions I cant even name them all, and most are not affected by the others.

SCE (Playstation) is completly seperate from SOE

[Doppler]

Hamma brings up a good point any Japanacorp has enough shell games going to make a global econ majors head hurt, Sony America could very well not be figured into this (I know for a fact that SOE asia has had a lot of trouble breaking into some lucrativew asian markets they were kinda banking on, South Korea mostly, lot to be said for nationalism.

[Veteran]

Don't worry, an asteroid will hit Earth before a game company shuts down a popular MMO game. As we play, we're helping to shape the course of these games.

Besides, when has PlanetSide let you guys down before? And I don't mean when it didn't run on your Pentium 2.