I've been reading this exact thread since 2008

Surely the banks would just have to get a few Wii and DS consoles in to print more money? That's how quantitative easing works right? :D 

It's fairly obvious thier worth has been dropping. But. :O :O :O :O :O

I didn't know it was dropping that fast though....
I wonder who might actually want to buy them? Or if Sony will split up into PS, Sony and other stuff?

Who knows! I'm predicting the company won't at least be independent for longer than 5 years, give or take.
Well, according to you it might be 2-3 years, but I don't think anyone will be willing to buy them, even for $10BN.

It's a vicious spiral. Hopefully it's stopped , somehow, but I fear it could be too late. Good Luck Sony! I wish you business health but I don't see it happening quickly. Turnarounds take some time I think. Not sure,just going off logic!

Same for nintendo since the N64 ...

First of all - cash flow has got nothing to do with "free cash":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_flow

Second of all, stock price is relevant.

Please do not post click bait "doom threads" if you do not know much about finance.

so what they just gonna put all those AAA devs making games like TLOU that sell 10M copies most at a good price and GT which se;;s 10M with a small team behind it making crappy mobile games? 

The people making the ost from mobile games are the one hit wonders like flappbird, candy crush and minecraft. Do you see MS going all mobile look for this superior dough? No. SO if google apple or amazon bought playstation they'd be nuts to not keep going the way sony is. In a few years they will have 20M people paying 50$ a year to just play the thing online. Then they have the cable deal. These companies would be idiots to just go mobile which they already are. 

Like you expect apple to make a playstation mobile when they already make a shit load of money on their iphones from game royalties. I don't agree with you at all. 

Only in Nintendo's case it isn't true

You can't just go in and buy Japanese companies, though. Hostile takeovers are next to unheard-of, especially if it's a high profile company. As much as Shinzo Abe is trying to "liberalize" the corporate structure, Japan will protect its own.

So where does that leave Sony? Does it mean they get bailed out if they need it and Playstation will never die no matter how bad SOny does?

"Never" is too strong a word, those reforms will come one day or another, just that the math presented earlier in the thread (if Sony's valuation drops to 10 billion or less) doesn't just mean someone can walk along and drop a big chunk of change, because Japan will have government pensions (or something like it) buy the stock first.