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bunchanumbers said:
Its good news. Sony needs to ditch all dead weight and focus on their banking and insurance companies. That is where their money has been for years.

Epecially all media after the PS4 has run its course



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Wouldn't surprise me if they did. That studio's been turning out too many high-profile flops. You can't make movies like Ghostbusters 2016 and Passengers forever and expect to keep the lights on. Just sell to Disney and cut the red tape from the Spider-Man franchise altogether.



Outside of James Bond and Spider-Man I cannot think of the major success stories Sony has enjoyed in past fifteen years.

I just looked at their 2016 line up and of their top ten films only "Passengers" interests me.



Snoopy said:
potato_hamster said:

Well the video game industry is shrinking too if you exclude Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. What a completely nonsensical argument.

Yet, none of them are going away in gaming.

No one would be shocked at all if we read an article next week that Microsoft was planning on selling off its Xbox division.  Well, maybe you would, but again, facts aren't really your thing.



Qwark said:
bunchanumbers said:
Its good news. Sony needs to ditch all dead weight and focus on their banking and insurance companies. That is where their money has been for years.

Epecially all media after the PS4 has run its course

pretty much. Entertainment, and electronics are all high competition markets. They  need to focus on services that are working for them. Vue has real potential if they put it everywhere including Xbox and all streaming devices.



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God knows what Sony would have done if the game division had another PS3 launch, 3rd party Sony maybe, they just can't afford to fail any gen now



Rab said:
God knows what Sony would have done if the game division had another PS3 launch, 3rd party Sony maybe, they just can't afford to fail any gen now

After the PS4 they should probably go third party and give up on traditional hardware. Sony as a whole wouldn't survive another PS3 disaster.



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Augen said:
Outside of James Bond and Spider-Man I cannot think of the major success stories Sony has enjoyed in past fifteen years.

I just looked at their 2016 line up and of their top ten films only "Passengers" interests me.

2012, Social Network, Men in Black, Hotel Transylvania, Karate Kid, 22 Jump Street, Smurfs etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Motion_Picture_Group#Highest-grossing_films

I agree, their movie offerings have been disappointing in recent years. Ghostbusters could've been an excellent reboot, they ruined it. The Emoji movie looks like a failure too, who the hell asked for these things. They need a new direction at the company.



Amazing. Fifth largest movie studio and they still struggle to succeed. I swear everything's heading toward a monopoly.



Turkish said:
Augen said:
Outside of James Bond and Spider-Man I cannot think of the major success stories Sony has enjoyed in past fifteen years.

I just looked at their 2016 line up and of their top ten films only "Passengers" interests me.

2012, Social Network, Men in Black, Hotel Transylvania, Karate Kid, 22 Jump Street, Smurfs etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Motion_Picture_Group#Highest-grossing_films

I agree, their movie offerings have been disappointing in recent years. Ghostbusters could've been an excellent reboot, they ruined it. The Emoji movie looks like a failure too, who the hell asked for these things. They need a new direction at the company.

They really have made some crap movies. The talent is there, the direction isn't. Kaz should hire a parallel to him to turn their movie business around cuz they're sitting on tons of potential