Esmoreit said:
Then why did the $200 xbox360 sell less then the $250 wii last month - or for the entire year perhaps? I'd also like to point out that all the industries you mentioned have had problems over the past years with the way they where lead. The American car-industry was bloated to it's fullest and failed to recognize the Japanese manufacturing market as threatening causing a sudden downfall. Every teacher I had 2 years ago used it as an example of an industry ready to crash. Expect the steelindustry to go next. The banks have been living on non-gained revenue for years aswell. Sony is of course totally different. Concerning the PS3, that has just been a relatively early bad marketing and design call which they can easily overcome next generation (provided they don't cock things up more then they did.) It's the other Sony divisions (someone called them a few pages back, something with back-lighting and something else) that need drastic actions. |
Ailing divisions: Electronics (TV, portable music, Ericson), Sony BMG, and Sony Insurance Holdings(life, auto and bank).
TV dision is somewhat remedied as they have cut their focus on TV expansion in EU, portable music im unsure about but failure was caused by late entry and weakness against Ipod brand, Sony/Ericson is a long standing issue, however, they seem to be moving forward with Samsung on new phone releases as well as cutting jobs in the Ericson dision to save costs. Sony BMG is a major drain on the company; failure to adapt to shift in how people get their media and piracy plague nearly every music holding company. Sony Financial has also been a drain this year but a portion of this can be largely attributed to the global economy.
