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Originally Posted by unlurking
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This is true, but the movie studio to a small extent, and especially the vfx and animation divisions, which have been a focus of alot of the leaked information, have always run at a deficit, sometimes enormous, but they were ego divisions whose losses were covered by sharing an umbrella with the games division. The problem is that everyone can see it now and it is pretty embarrassing.
You will notice that they are not included in the labor collusion lawsuits against animation companies and ILM. This is because they were always driving up labor prices and poaching freely from anyone. The cost of that spending shows up when the talent leaves, not because of the company as many articles purport, but because the salaries could not be sustained as other divisions of Sony were not covering the losses anymore. They are awful places to work. Nobody has ever worked at either of those two divisions for any reason other than money, the highest salary offered, by a wide margin, like 30-35% more than market value, and frankly they never had the best talent anyway.
Ego is the primary driver of Sony operations in the entertainment sector. This hack has truly exposed that. There will be massive reorganization, but it won't be easy since they can't afford the crazy salaries they used to offer. If electronics and other big divisions are run in any way the same, I don't know if they can recover.
Too bad about the computers. I have had two Sony Vaio models and they were my favorite computers, but they probably lost money on those too and they weren't cheap. I have finally switched to Apple because of that. The shame of what might actually be in the stolen data has got to be worse than the shame we are already seeing.