Sony on the brink of corporate upheaval, drastic changes

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theprof00 said:

goddog said:

theprof00 said:
Saying sony will terminate PS brand is ridiculous.
Reasons:
1)iSupply also expects them to break even on production sometime this year. 2) IPs are the most profitable market for sony atm, which they also said they are going to be focusing on.
3) Gaming is expected to lead the tech sector in 09.

All signs point to Sony pouring more money in game development and axing a bunch of needless, soon to be outdated or unpopular tech:

UMD movies
CD and DVD plants
Ericcson deal
Sony walkman + discman

Note that all of these will be heavily region restrictive and will continue to be manufactured in many areas.

 

I think most in the thread have agreed that SCE wont close or be sold off, however, most do see a retration of studios or a reduction of head count. most have also listed that the divisions you see as going first will. the speculation on SCE mainly rides on how bad things are at sony, if things got bad enough, SCE could be a division sold at a good profit to clear debt, heck the debt might even be packaged into the division.... basicaly SCE can be used to right what ails sony if things get really bad, it will buy sony a decade to rebuild and fix things

In fact, according to traditional japanese business (the way a majority of things are still run) "parent" companies like Sony, will often push their debt onto smaller companies that are oftentimes in the midst of tanking, which will declare bankrupcy and protect the parent company. 

If they do that though, won't potential creditors/investors not trust sony any more, I wouldn't finance a company that handled their debt to me that way.