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naruball on 13 May 2013
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Imaginedvl said:
naruball said:
alastor@where said:
Let's be honest. Sony selling two huge headquarters had alot to do with its gains this year. Not its gaming division. Or a ps4 announcement. Look at Vita. It's failing. Gaming in general is changing. And not for the better.


I love how people keep bringing up those buildings and completely ignore everything they bought last fiscal year.

What do you mean by vita is failing? Does its failure affect Sony when they probably don't lose any money on each system sold? The ps3 was a financial disaster initially for Sony, the vita hasn't even gotten a proper price cut yet. They obviously don't care enough and thus are not losing any money off of it. It's just one of their many producs. Just like their smartphones sell terribly compared to apple and samsung, so the vita is selling horribly compared to 3ds, but all they need is to make money, not be first. If you wanna look at something, look at their tv failure.

Well, you are the one ignoring these facts

Facts are that Sony sold two building and it helped them with their gains.
Also their gaming division is not as bad as their TV division, but they still lost a lot because of it... I do not think they will do the same mistake with PS4 but it is way too early to know.
And while the Vita is nice piece of hardware on the technical standpoint; it is effectively failing and this is certainly NOT helping Sony.

Not sure why you think we should ignore these facts just because their TV division is worse...

Back to the OP: It is still good to see some good news for Sony. I'm actually thinking of buying some Sony's stock; I think the timing is very good.

How did I ignore the facts? I mentioned the buidlings, did YOU mention everything they bought? NO. Who's ignoring facts?

I did not say that vita is helping sony. I said it does not seem to be hurting them financially. If you're an investor and see that the vita is not doing well, but it's not bleeding money, then you can ignore it. Conversely,  the loss that ps3 resulted in could not have been ignored by the investors and if it's a similar case with ps4, I'm sure many will sell their shares, because of that, not the insginificant vita.

I only mentioned the TV division, because if I were a major shareholder, I would demand to know their plans on the TV division which has been on the red for almost a decade. The vita does not have such an impact. Yes, the vita is a failure both on our and sony's expectations, but how much money have they spent on it and how much are they gaining? If it's a failure, it's an insiginificant one. The TV divsion is not!