Sony To Reduce Year-End Dividend For FY08

Sony Corporation (SNE) has revised its planned year-end dividend for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009. On January 22, 2009, the Company announced a downward revision of the Company’s consolidated results forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009, in light of the deterioration of the global business environment. As a result, the Company has decided to reduce the planned amount of the year-end dividend for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009 to ¥12.5 per share, the same amount paid in the previous fiscal year, from ¥20 per share, the originally planned amount.

The year-end dividend is scheduled to be finally determined by the Board of Directors in May 2009 and is scheduled to be paid in June 2009 subject to such determination.