Video games, TV ruin Best Buy's profits
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Exercise would make it worse though Best Buy, the largest US consumer-electronics chain ,reported a net income drop of 18 per cent to $192m (39 cents per share), despite strong sales in the first quarter.â¦
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DonÂt buy that high-definition TV yet. Competition may force the prices down further.
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Best Buy announced today that it has pulled all remaining analog television products from store shelves and will henceforth only sell products with digital tuners. The company is the first consumer electronics retailer to publicly announce its departure from the analog television business.
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Top U.S. electronics chain Best Buy Co. Inc.  on Wednesday reported higher quarterly profit due to expense control and higher gross margins, offsetting sluggish sales growth.
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Electronic Arts cuts prices on key sports titles, showing some vulnerability.
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Just when Sony appears to have turned around its electronics business, another part of its sprawling empire &#151; video games &#151; is dragging down profits.
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In a Feb. 1 story about Electronic Arts Inc.'s earnings, The Associated Press reported erroneously that third-quarter sales had dropped 38 percent. It was profits that dropped by that margin.
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Best Buy Co. Inc. BBY.N on Tuesday   reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit, boosted by   new store openings and sales of high-priced electronics, easing   fears that consumers were pulling back on spending.
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Budget competition from other consumer electronics devices is among factors lowering sales estimates.
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Stocks headed for a lower open on Tuesday as disappointing earnings from Best Buy Co. Inc.  revived worries about consumer spending.
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(InfoWorld) - Sony's core electronics business more than doubled profits in the last quarter of 2006, but failed to offset price cuts to itsÂ PlayStation 3 game console, leading to an overall profit decline of just over 5 percent, the company said Tuesday. The company said sales and operating revenue increased 9.8 percent to Â¥2.6 trillion ($21.4 billion) while net profit fell 5.3 percent to Â¥159.9 billion. Sony Computer Entertainment, the division responsible for its PlayStation gaming consoles, was the only one of Sony's main business units that registered a loss in the quarter. It lost Â¥54.2 billion primarily due to the retail price of the more expensive of the two consoles being reduced from a planned Â¥62,790 to Â¥49,980 in Japan. The cut was made, Sony said, due to negative feedback from consumers. Sony's electronics business saw profits more than double to Â¥177.4 billion on 16.9 percent higher sales of Â¥1.9 trillion, the company said. The unit had a generally positive quarter with sales of Bravia LCD (liquid crystal display) televisions and Cybershot digital still cameras increasing. Europe saw the biggest percentage sales jump, up 21 percent, thanks to better LCD TV and Vaio PC sales, while tough competition in the U.S. TV market meant sales there increased by just 3 percent. Sony Pictures returned to profitability as sales there jumped 47 percent, but sales in the financial services division fell 9 percent. Underlining the generally positive results, Sony revised its full-year profit forecast upward for the year to the end of March. It now expects to record a net profit of Â¥110 billion for the year, up from its previous forecast of Â¥80 billion, although still lower than the Â¥124 billion it reported last year. The sales forecast was left unchanged. Sony's mid-term business plan has targeted a profit margin of 5 percent for the coming fiscal year. Sony's electronics business is already meeting its part of the target and will continue to do so next year however the games unit needs to improve, Sony's chief financial officer Nobuyuki Oneda said at a Tokyo news conference on Tuesday. He expects to bring the company's games unit closer to break-even in the second half, he said. Sony will target cost savings in the PlayStation 3 by introducing more advanced chips and consolidating components to reduce the overall number of parts, he said. The company is already on the way to the first of these targets, with the recent start of production of a new version of the Cell processor built with a 65-nanometer production process. The chip in current consoles is built using a 90-nanometer process and the upcoming switch will mean a chip that is 40 percent smaller. Costs will fall in line with the size reduction, Sony said. It did not say when the new chip will appear in consoles. Sony wouldn't provide anyÂ PlayStation 3 shipment estimatesÂ for the coming financial year but said it remains confident it will ship 6 million consoles up to March. It also revised upwards its PlayStation 2 shipment forecast from 11 million units to 13 million units. Sony counts shipments as finished consoles leaving its factory for Sony warehouses and distributors. Oneda ruled out the possibility of further price cuts in the near future, but hinted that this could happen in two or three years' time. Â
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Best Buy Co Inc.  may have  ridden the flat-panel TV wave to higher profits, but the  retailer's disappointing quarterly results have sparked worries  that the wave may have crested sooner than expected.
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Best Buy Co. Inc.  reported lower-than-expected quarterly profit on Tuesday as the consumer electronics retailer cut prices on flat-panel TVs to boost sales at the start of the holiday shopping season, sending its shares down 5 percent.
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Top U.S. consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co. Inc.  on Tuesday posted a weaker-than-expected quarterly profit, dragged down by sales of lower margin products such as notebook computers and video game consoles.
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Best Buy Co. Inc.  reported quarterly earnings on Tuesday that missed analyst estimates by a wide margin and gave a disappointing full-year forecast as television sales cooled.
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By CHRIS WILLIAMS  MINNEAPOLIS - Discounting took a bite out of Best Buy's third quarter earnings. The nation's largest consumer electronics retailer said Tuesday that fierce competition forced it to sacrifice profit for market share, but all should be well in the fourth quarter.
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Circuit City tries to outmuscle Best Buy by appealing to couch potatoes.