S.T.A.G.E. said:
DirtyP2002 said:
| S.T.A.G.E. said:
Yes, Playstation is so irrelevant to the business that where is Kaz Hirai now in Sony corp in stature after saving the PS3? Look up the history of the Playstation, because shareholders laughed at the concept of videogame console. The first gen changed their minds about gaming when Playstation dominated the industry and helped push spread formats allowing the market prices of said formats to be affordable to the masses, thus selling more outside the Playstation brand. The Playstation brand has been a shining light in a gloomy time for Sony as a company and its high time whether you like them or not that you realize this. Shareholders of Sony has long since accepted the Playstations place in the company and Sony is a far stretching media and technology company. Playstation fits in just fine. Its MS that are having problems with their stockholders. MS doesn't listen to them and probably never will.
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Your argument is so flawed.
1st: I said shareholders (The people that OWN Sony) don't care about the Playstation. They only care about PROFIT. And that is something the Playstation products were way behind the competition for the past gen. This goes for every company in the world: Shareholders want profit. Period.
2nd: Why do you bring up something that has happened almost 2 decades ago? Sure the PS1 and PS2 were successful and made lots of money for Sony, but damn, this was 1994 - 2005!
3rd: Please accept that Sony is all about the money, like every business in the world. Somehow a lot of people spin this in crazy new directions. I remember that the exclusive content the PS3 version got for BF3 was because of the 'good relationship Sony has with EA'. No, it was because of the MONEY Sony spent for it. 2 years later EA supports MS with exclusive content. You know why? Money!
4th: I agree that Sony always supported the Playstation, but so does MS with the Xbox.
5th: What kind of problems MS has with their shareholders? The stock is close to a 5 year high and they pay a healthy dividend.
bottom line: The likelihood of MS selling the Xbox business is just as high as Sony selling the Playstation business. Actually it is probably lower, because the Xbox business is posting way better financial numbers for MS than the Playstation business does for Sony in the past 4-5 years.
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You're speaking in such a general sense. I understand what shareholders do, but I've also read the stories of how Playstation began and the board and shareholder response to the pitch for the Playstation by the head of Sony at the time and Ken Kutaragi. Their response to the playstation after the first generation was positive, unlike MS who even though in their second gen with the 360 are making profit they still dont care.
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I am speaking in such a general sense, because I am right.
When MS was about to launch the first Xbox, shareholders were quite shocked that it did not run Windows. Just like what happened at Sony, there is always a discussion about the product and its potential before the device is actually released.
This day and age, quite a few investors used the Xbox business as a positive example for product launches.
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