My concern is that you are going to try to draw a parallel between Sony and Atari where there isn't one. You don't know why the console market collapsed in the eighties. You don't even seem to understand that Sony's problems aren't a weak game market. You don't even understand that the current market is all kinds of healthy. It is just down when compared against the fad that was the Wii.
I think I understand where you are coming from, but the truth is that the market just won't give a shit if Sony has left the market. Consoles have come and gone, and when they go away the players just buy into something else. There just isn't much of a future for Sony in gaming as far as their financial status is concerned. There isn't any way that Sony can just wait it out. They need to keep moving to stay ahead of their debt, and to give them a chance to come up with some kind of hit product. If they stop then the debt will just overtake them, and force them right into bankruptcy.
Which is likely to happen regardless, but if Sony isn't going to jump into a new console generation. Then Sony has some choices to make. Such as whether to sell off the assets to create spending capitol, or to create some new kind of priority for the division such as third party software. The one thing they cannot do is sit unused. By the way if they don't announce you better believe that their PS3 software market will begin to happen pretty quickly. The sad truth being that nobody likes to develop for a dead brand. In a world with backward compatibility it is even more damning.
Anyway no connection between the two. Other then Sony is actually far less important now then Atari was way back then. Microsoft or Nintendo would instantly pick up any slack in the market, because they would be the real benefactors of Sony's demise.
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