Profit Slips at Sony on Losses for PlayStation 3
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Sony faulted a strategic decision to set the price of the PlayStation 3 below the cost of production as a way to bolster market share.
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Sales of the PlayStation 3 console during its first full week of availability in Japan were sharply lower than those during the two days immediately following its launch, according to estimates published this week.
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Electronics giant Sony has reported a fall in profits, in contrast to strong gains seen by Matsushita and Canon. Sony, which blamed a fall in sales of televisions and portable audio players, saw half-year
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Sony Corp.  said on Thursday it has no plans to change its targets for shipments of its hot-selling PlayStation 3 and operating profit margin, signaling its recovery is on track despite drawbacks such as battery recalls.
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Sony Corp. 6758.T shares fell as much   as 2.6 percent on Thursday, hit by another delay in the launch   of its PlayStation 3 game console, but outperformed sector   peers and the broader market by the end of the day as investors   weigh the likely impact of the delay.
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Sony Corp sold 1.2 million  PlayStation 3 video game consoles in North America over the  holiday season, the company said on Sunday.
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GameStop Corp., the largest U.S.  video game retailer, reported on Tuesday a quarterly profit  that fell slightly short of Wall Street estimates and shares  fell as much as 2.7 percent.
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Sony said quarterly net profit jumped to 73.7 billion yen, or $646.7 million, as sales of digital cameras, televisions and other electronics more than offset losses at its video-games unit.
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Sony Corp sold 1.2 million PlayStation 3 video game consoles in North America over the holiday season, the company said on Sunday.
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Although Sony is blaming its faltering profits partly on PlayStation 3 price cuts in Japan, a senior executive said Wednesday that further slashing prices may be in store for the just-launched video game machine.
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Sony Corp. said profit from sales of home electronic products won&#39;t improve next quarter because of falling prices for flat-panel televisions and slumping demand for audio products.
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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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Sony Corp  gaming chief Kaz  Hirai hopes to turn a profit on the PlayStation 3 console  business in the entertainment conglomerate's next fiscal year,  fuelled in part by falling costs for the parts used to make the  device.
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Sony Corp. posted a 13 percent drop in quarterly profit on Thursday due to sliding prices of TVs, DVD recorders and video cameras and its failure to overtake Apple Computer's iPod in the portable audio market.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) said on Friday that  losses at its games division in the July-September quarter may  be bigger than its losses for the quarter ended in June due to  a possible increase in valuation losses on PlayStation 3  microchips.
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Sony's PS3 price cut may not be quite what it seems.
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The electronics retailer said it swung to a third-quarter profit, overcoming lower revenue by cutting costs and selling more high-margin items.