Untamoi on 26 July 2009
You really don't know about business. Profits are much more important than assets and very few actually care about amount of assets. Amount of assets is only important when you are losing money and have to sell some of your assets. Sony doesn't have much money in the bank so Sony's assets are factories, workers etc. If console department would only lose money or not benefit some other department within company, it would be closed down or sold, no matter how much assets company has.
Sometimes huge amount of assets are actually burden. For example car companies have huge assets but almost nobody wants to buy any of them so they just close down factories or sell them for very minimal amount.
