Squilliam said:
They probably don't need to worry. Sony on the other hand just clocked up $100,000,000,000 in debt... |
Quite big indeed. Can it secure it with its assets, cash and other positive balance items? It looks like it can, up until now, and obviously only a small part of those $100billion can be ascribed to PS3. And more obviously, now that Sony invested some billions $ on PS3, giving up just when HW is going to become profitable and SW, royalties, periferals, etc have already been for months would be throwing away all the investments, so the only sensible thing to expect is that Sony will try to do its best. We know that what screwed Sony so much are other electronic products, using PS3 to launch BD simply delayed HW profitability one year or so from usual (excluding Nintendo that's a lot more prudent about it), but Sony, for example, lost its dominance on TV sets and monitors, this screwed it more than anything else. So Sony needs to worry, but quite likely BD and PS3 are amongst the things starting to give it some relief, they cost a lot, but they start paying, while losing the position Sony had with Trinitron is a total loss, not an investment, Sony may, or better, must try to recover something with Bravia, but what it lost with Trinitron is by no means an investment, it's a loss, period.
