Sony profits fall 94% on costs of recall and PS3
Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Friday October 27, 2006
The Guardian
The mixed fortunes of two of the biggest players in the £16bn global gaming market were underlined yesterday when Sony announced a 94% plunge in profits for the most recent quarter, while Nintendo said its first-half profits had more than tripled.
Sony said the cost of its global recall of potentially faulty PC batteries and developing its next-generation game console, the PlayStation 3, had cut profits from July to September to ¥1.7bn (£7.6m) compared with ¥28.5bn for the same quarter in 2005.
Most major PC makers, including Dell and Apple, are recalling 9.6m Sony lithium-ion batteries, which can overheat.
The fall in profits offset a slight rise in second-quarter sales to ¥1.85 trillion and strong demand for flat-screen TVs.
Sony's ¥43.5bn loss in its gaming division was blamed on extra costs related to the PS3, which goes on sale in Japan and the US next month, and the decision last month to cut the price of the PS3 in Japan by 20%. The European launch has been delayed until March because of supply problems with the PS3's Blu-Ray disk drive. Sony, however, said it still expected to ship 6m PS3s worldwide by March.
Nintendo's Wii console will also debut next month. The firm said brisk sales of its handheld Nintendo DS and software titles lifted first-half group net profit by nearly 50% to ¥54.3bn. Half-yearly operating profit more than tripled to ¥67.1bn. Group sales rose almost 70% to ¥298bn.
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其实只是说三季度sony利润相比去年同期下降了94%，2006是17亿日元，2005年同期285日元
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