prominence with playstation or as a company that they are right now?
they have to get rid off some divisions that just aren't profitable. not to forget that they also build *crap*.
1. smartphones
really, the sony-smartphones look ugly, sell like fridges in alaska and support is lousy (android-4.0-updates rolling out while sony *knows* issues regarding wlan)
2. tv
why the hell are sony-tvs that expensive? they don't really offer more than competitors, still the prices are higher. sure they sell less than others.
3. sound
yes, they actually also build av-receivers, e.g. top-model to be released is STR-DA5700ES. this baby will cost you 2,4k euros. sure, it's a hell of a receiver but why no 4k-upscaling? especially again, sony just too expensive.
4. bluray
see tv and sound. sony builds good hardware, again lacking a lot of features others offer. playback mkv, ntfs-support and so on (don't know about current gen, though).
5. gaming
vita - again, sony tries to push proprietary crap where it is inappropriate. vita has tough hardware but people feel it's competing with smartphones while 3ds is felt like "gameboy". sorry for vita, nice concept, good hardware, perhaps good games, but won't be as successful as 3ds, perhaps not even like psp...
ps3 - well, despite the opinion of many users here, sony *is* 3rd. which is not that bad (although only 2 competitors :)) but i don't see why people want back sony-domination like psx and ps2. the games weren't better back then (even worse in my opinion) and competition is something where *we* can benefit from. sony has to put much effort in staying competitive just like bigN and ms, too. i like the current situation.
perhaps i left out a few things but sony should also listen to their customers (not the guys in the forums here who think they could do better jobs than the guys at sony).
