If you read Sony's financial reports and look at their assetts, debt, projected losses and all that stuff, if the losses continue they can essentially run out of money in 2-3 years. They need to act fast.
PS1-PS2 carried them for a long time, really from about 1997 to 2005, accounting for 50%+ of Sony's profits. But PS3 is no where near as successful or profitable as those systems, and the company doesn't have the structural discipline to survive without having cushy profit margins somewhere. PS2 was their last device to have 70% (or anything close to it) market share in their big industries, and unless they figure things out quickly the company is going to keep shrinking - losing both hard earned cash from the previous eras and thousands of competent employees who are mislead by incompetent management.
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
When there are more laws, there are more criminals.
- Lao Tzu
