Things are currently looking up for Sony, now that they were able to recover from their initial doldrums and garnered a lot of numbers in the recent holidays. Sony's CEO Howard Stringer acknowledged the headway they gained in the holiday season, but also said that there are still some unanswered questions left. Quoting Stringer:

The fourth quarter is full of strange unanswerable situations related to unemployment, related to GDP, related to everything else. So it's too soon for us to be pessimistic, but I read the papers.