"Sony is back in the black thanks to the PlayStation 2.
An Associated Press article has reported that Sony posted profits of $127 million thanks to increasing sales of its PlayStation 2 and electronics products. Sony posted losses of $295 million for the same quarter last year due to the costs incurred while launching the PlayStation 2. Sony expects its profits to continue to rise as more PlayStation 2 units enter the retail chain and software sales rise."
"While the US economy has slowed down significantly, Sony has seen no drop in demand for its products. Electronic sales were up 21 percent for the year. Sony has now sold 10.6 million PlayStation 2 consoles worldwide and 2.7 million PlayStation 2 consoles in the US. Sony predicts that it will generate $1.2 billion in profits by March of 2002."
"Sony has attributed the decline to the learning curve associated with game developers coming to grips with the sophisticated architecture of the PlayStation 2. Sales for the first quarter of 2001 totaled $15 billion, an increase of 16.5 percent over the $14 billion in sales from the first quarter of 2000."
I didn\'t expect Sony to begin bringing in a profit this quickly.
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/storie...2713443,00.html :cool: