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DerNebel on 14 January 2015
method114 said:
DerNebel said:
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Definitely happy that I held of on buying a Sony phone last month, if true.


I don't really see why that would matter your phone would still work. I still want to get one beause of the remote play.

I don't want to have phone that doesn't receive any updates or some shit anymore because the company decided to ditch the brand.



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Jereel Hunter on 14 January 2015
bunchanumbers said:
ZarskiSold said:
bunchanumbers said:
ZarskiSold said:
bunchanumbers said:

Hell I even think they would be better off selling the PlayStation brand to Samsung. Gaming is a volatile market and its too easy to post losses without the right business model.


Wow, could be the worst idea/post iv read on here.

That would be the worst thing possible for them long term, PS is their future.

Compared to their banking and insurance business? PlayStation would really need to pick up the pace.

But I get what you're getting at. Sony Executives are already debating whether or not PS5 will be a physical or Cloud based console. If they do go cloud based they will save tons of money and it would be nearly all profit without having physical media and second hand sales to hold them down. If PS Now on non Sony devices takes off I could see PlayStation 5 on everything from phones, tvs, tablets, to even PC and the other consoles. But a lot of ducks will have to line up for it to happen. 


Those two are great but PS is their connection to their past of making hardware and awesome products.  That and the potential of it is insamly huge, PS on every device known to men.  The profits holy fuck they can become apple like.  

Yeah. I think that is their plan for the future of PlayStation. I'm sure that every PS4 will run it. Along with every other device known to man. There will be no more billions wasted developing hardware. No more worries about hardware sales, no more worries about GameStop trying to chip away the profits, and no more hardware restrictions. No more worries about APUs or CPU bottlenecks. Every game that comes out for it should be the best version possible. The possibilities are limitless if they go this route. Along with the money. It could save their company if they do it right. But if they keep trying to go the physical console route I think they would be better off going with the Samsung idea and focus on their banking and insurance businesses.

Sounds good. The world wants online-only consoles. That's what people made clear at the beginning of this generation, right?



torok on 14 January 2015
Kerotan said:

i think sony would be stupid to sell it now as i think they are turning a corner somewhat. If they im[rove the mobile division some more MS would probably pay a shit load of money for it and if I was them I'd sell. Get something in the contract that PS Now and other PS apps must always be included. 

But if they turn it around more I'd say Sony would try and hang onto it. 


Why would MS buy another mobile division? Nokia, Sony, are they doing a collection :P ?



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torok on 14 January 2015
Jereel Hunter said:

Sounds good. The world wants online-only consoles. That's what people made clear at the beginning of this generation, right?

 

I think they will do PS Now as an extra option. You will have your PS4/PS5, regular console. But you can pay and stream the same games on a PS Vita/maybe next portable, TVs, phones.

If they sell the mobile division, I would expect PS Now to be made available on all phones and tablets.



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torok on 14 January 2015
tiffac said:


I was actually going to say that this increases the chances of another Sony handheld. lol! xD

Or even a PSP phone anyway, without the mobile division. A PSP phone would be made by the PS division. Even if it sold like the Vita, that would still be a more successful phone than anything the mobile division ever did. So why bother with that division.

The current trimming of divisions increase the chance of another handheld. Every division that they spin off or sell just makes the PS division more important and it makes more critical to drop one of the two lines of hardware product that the division sells.



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Kerotan on 14 January 2015
torok said:
Kerotan said:

i think sony would be stupid to sell it now as i think they are turning a corner somewhat. If they im[rove the mobile division some more MS would probably pay a shit load of money for it and if I was them I'd sell. Get something in the contract that PS Now and other PS apps must always be included. 

But if they turn it around more I'd say Sony would try and hang onto it. 


Why would MS buy another mobile division? Nokia, Sony, are they doing a collection :P ?

High end and low end phones.  along with the surface tablet their collection would be complete 



Roma on 14 January 2015

too bad for people who like their phones



    R.I.P Mr Iwata :'(

torok on 14 January 2015
Kerotan said:

High end and low end phones.  along with the surface tablet their collection would be complete 


Nokia already have low and high end phones. And Sony is an Android manufacturer. Buying Nokia already brought them a lot of problems because they ended up with a lot of duplicated positions, had a massive increase in workforce numbers and had to do layoffs to cut unnecessary positions. Buying another phone manufacturer would basically only create duplicated positions.

And besides that, they already have one very troubled phone company. They don't need other one.



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method114 on 14 January 2015
DerNebel said:
method114 said:
DerNebel said:
No link?

Definitely happy that I held of on buying a Sony phone last month, if true.


I don't really see why that would matter your phone would still work. I still want to get one beause of the remote play.

I don't want to have phone that doesn't receive any updates or some shit anymore because the company decided to ditch the brand.

eh that would have mattered years ago to me but now I don't even care. I didn't even notice any changes from any of the updates they've done lately. I would much rather have remote play then updates.



DerNebel on 14 January 2015
method114 said:
DerNebel said:

I don't want to have phone that doesn't receive any updates or some shit anymore because the company decided to ditch the brand.

eh that would have mattered years ago to me but now I don't even care. I didn't even notice any changes from any of the updates they've done lately. I would much rather have remote play then updates.

Yeah and I on the other hand don't care for remote play, which btw. is likely to come to phones of other brands anyway.