Sony CEO battling Sony 'Old Guard'

[Kasz216]

outlawauron said:

Kasz216 said:

NJ5 said:

A few comments on some cherry-picked parts:

The dispute centres on whether products such as televisions have become commodities, in which case, Sir Howard believes, Sony should cut its production costs and rely more on sales of software built into its gadgets. He emphasised the importance of this business in a speech at the US Consumer Electronics Show this month.

Other than gaming hardware, what other of Sony's "gadgets" can be a platform for these software sales? I can think of mobile phones and not much else. Am I forgetting something obvious?

I'd guess.

HD TVS = Blu-ray movies/Built in streaming service

etc.

They need to put out a lot more movies. They need another Spiderman 3.

Put out too many movies at once though and you screw yourself... because people only have so much money... then you canibalize your "full price sales".. because retailers aren't going to just quadruple the number of blu-rays they buy because you quandruple your releases.

OR You're forced to keep your movies at full price longer... which is going to frustrate the consumer who might just opt for the cheaper DVD options if they feel like Blu-ray movies never come down in price.

Tricky stuff that.