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selnor1983 on 31 December 2013
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joeorc said:
selnor1983 said:
Id take this article with a shed load of salt.

Sony is in financial trouble.. That's a known factor. And I would bet more for a buyout than a bankruptcy. Either way I don't expect the playstation brand to be the same if at all by 2020. Especially if Apple or Mircosoft buys them.

no Hostile Take Over of any large japanese Company or , by any foreign hedge fund investor groups has had any success to do so in the past 40 years, let alone a company the size of Sony's, that employ's such a very large number of japanese people,

 

Break up Sony? It's harder than it looks

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/16/break-up-sony-its-harder-than-it-looks/

 

""The entertainment businesses are important contributors to Sony's growth and are not for sale," wrote Hirai in Sony's statement."

again:

Struggles with foreign shareholders have nearly always turned to favor Japanese companies, after all. Just six years ago when Steel Partners launched a tender offer for the 90% of a famous Japanese sauce maker, Bull-Dog, the food firm sought a white knight intervention and then a poison pill to save itself from an aggressive takeover bid from the Americans. Finally, Japanese courts voted in favor of the pill.

very doubtful of a buyout, Sony i would bet would cut off every part it could but smartphones and software and keep playstation as Kaz stated "the three pillar's of Sony" than sell off playstation, if anything the work force and over head of Sony as a whole would Suffer the drastic cuts needed in order to keep a 50 billion in revenue Alive and kicking. Trim off sections such as TV's are ripe for the Cut. 8 years of straight loss in the billions tend to do that, Hell even Kaz no more see's the TV part of Sony as a pillar of Sony anymore.

Sony in its entirity is worth $18 billiion. Microsoft made more than that in profit in the last quater financials. Microsoft is worth over $400 billion not including networth. It could be done with the change on the CEO's desk.

Im no in anyway implying I know what will happen to Sony. But I fully do not expect Plastaion to either be a) around in 2020 or b) be in the same vien it is now. I wouldnt be surprised if PS4 is onys lat console regardless of its sucess. I believe Sony went into consle gaming purel to push its media systems right from PS1 and its investment in CD tech at the time.

Same way Microsoft is for its software th centre of the living room. Nintendo is the only company who is solely their for gaming reasons.