WereKitten said:
Let's get to the roots: the Playstation business was meant to make money by itself, but also to free the digital media consumption from the shackles of the PC industry. Sony has music and movies and hardware to sell, the less they have to rely on external proprietary techs and licenses the better. In the end the PS did not conquer the living room, but standard smart appliances (e.g. web and Android based) might achieve the very same goal. I'm pretty sure that as numbers grow there will be much more money to be made by selling content to a wider audience than resorting to lock-in for the margins on hardware. |
The fact that Sony has movies/music doesn't effect their manufacturing arm. Their content is available generally for all viable platforms for the most part with the exception of games. Selling their own music on their own TV isn't any more of a win for their TV arm than it is to sell Warner music on their own TVs. They are completely seperate and agnostic to each other.
If they are indeed moving towards android in that fashion then they would essentially be conceding that the Playstation cannot and will not on its own conquer the living room. So they are conceding one potentially higher profit position for one which is far less profitable given free competion and open standards. Its good for the consumer but potentially bad for them if they concede their cuirated computing objectives and leave that market to Apple alone.
They already sell their content to a wider audience. I don't see how this move would broaden that audience significantly. Its only real import is a change in how that content is delivered. However by strengthening digital distribution they would in part be taking market share for their own Blu Ray fabrication.
Tease.
