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Forums - Sony Discussion - Kazuo Hirai to be named Sony President? - Denied by Sony *Update*

KBG29 on 06 January 2012
Signalstar said:
Kinda ruined by the fact that Stringer is still CEO. Things have gone from shit to shit under his reign. Not a good show for the company's first foreign president.


It turns my stomach knowing that Playstation was the iBrand product long before iPhone, iPod, ect. Yet in the last 7 years this guy has let Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung completely dominate it. Sony was so far ahead with PS2 and at the launch of PSP they could have done a bad job and still have never let iPhone, iPad, Android, Xbox, Windows Phone7 ever get anywhere. However, they didn't do just a bad job, they basically self destructed. 

Hopefully Kaz will actually get a unified product line streamlined, and start taking advantage of what is left of Sony.



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Aj_habfan on 06 January 2012
KBG29 said:
Signalstar said:
Kinda ruined by the fact that Stringer is still CEO. Things have gone from shit to shit under his reign. Not a good show for the company's first foreign president.


It turns my stomach knowing that Playstation was the iBrand product long before iPhone, iPod, ect. Yet in the last 7 years this guy has let Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung completely dominate it. Sony was so far ahead with PS2 and at the launch of PSP they could have done a bad job and still have never let iPhone, iPad, Android, Xbox, Windows Phone7 ever get anywhere. However, they didn't do just a bad job, they basically self destructed. 

Hopefully Kaz will actually get a unified product line streamlined, and start taking advantage of what is left of Sony.

The man in your avatar is also partly responsible for the downfall.

But Stringer talked big, especially after taking over Sony Corp a couple years ago, and it seems like he hasn't accomplished much.



Areym on 06 January 2012

I wish Mr. Kaz the best of luck. Keep Sony large and in charge (at least in the video game division anyways)



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Solid-Stark on 06 January 2012

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Turkish on 06 January 2012

This will mark great times for Sony as a whole. Howard Stringer and Nobuyuki Idei have really weakened the Sony and PlayStation brand. So much as BusinessWeek nominated Nobuyuki the worst manager of 2005. Kaz Hirai will do an excellent job, PS4 and Vita dominate confirmed imo. :)



Slimebeast on 06 January 2012

I don't know what makes a good or bad CEO/President for a multinational megacorporation but there's too much competition from Samsung, Apple and Microsoft for Sony to be profitable. But it's a gigantic company and will remain in business.



ozsman on 06 January 2012

I think Kevin Butler should take over



 

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NiKKoM on 06 January 2012

People blaming stringer should read this www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/what-is-sony-now-11172011.html
A CEO without power is never easy..



 

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Tridrakious on 07 January 2012
Aj_habfan said:
KBG29 said:
Signalstar said:
Kinda ruined by the fact that Stringer is still CEO. Things have gone from shit to shit under his reign. Not a good show for the company's first foreign president.


It turns my stomach knowing that Playstation was the iBrand product long before iPhone, iPod, ect. Yet in the last 7 years this guy has let Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung completely dominate it. Sony was so far ahead with PS2 and at the launch of PSP they could have done a bad job and still have never let iPhone, iPad, Android, Xbox, Windows Phone7 ever get anywhere. However, they didn't do just a bad job, they basically self destructed. 

Hopefully Kaz will actually get a unified product line streamlined, and start taking advantage of what is left of Sony.

The man in your avatar is also partly responsible for the downfall.

But Stringer talked big, especially after taking over Sony Corp a couple years ago, and it seems like he hasn't accomplished much.


Ken Kutaragi-san is not to blame for any of the problems Sony faced. He is a true visionary. I true genious. He called for the delay of the system from early 2006 to November 2006 because Sony needed to figure out their manufacturing issues with the PS3. He refused to launch the system.

The exes higher up than him made the call that the PS3 was going to launch whether Kutaragi-san wanted it to or not in November. That's why he publicly came out and said that Sony was not in any position to successfully launch the PS3 this year. He doubted the ability of Sony in regards to fixing the manufacturing problems plaguing Sony's Blu-Ray development.

There are very few people who blame Ken Kutaragi-san. For the ones who do, don't remember 2006 very well. Howard Stringer has screwed the company over and he is to blame for the self destruction we've witnessed. Kutaragi-san was forced out by Stringer, because Kutaragi-san was also competing for the same position Stringer got in 2005. Kutaragi-san was tasked with turning around the failing electronics division (mainly turning around Bravia) while Stringer was tasked with expanding the media connections.