Question: In U.S. dollars, how much was the enormous loss Sony reported the month before Kutaragi's retirement announcement?
Sentence: However, they were priced at US$499 and US$599 respectively, meaning that units may have been sold at an estimated loss of $306 or $241 depending on model, if the cost estimates were correct, and thus may have contributed to Sony's games division posting an operating loss of ¥232.3 billion (US$1.97 billion) in the fiscal year ending March 2007.
Answer in sentence: yes