Someone is on the defensive here...
1 - Yes Sony is in the red, has been for a long time, like Apple has been for a while in the late 90s
2 - Let's say for a minute Sony was to close tomorrow, Playstation would probably be spun off as its own brand or sold to recoup some of the losses the other branches occured...
3 - It's strange that the news gets burried in some way, do we have articles about how MS makes tons of profits nearly every quarters or years? Does it really matter how each company does in the short therm? does it tell us what's going to happen with their gaming division? (I think only Nintendo is a pure gaming company right now).
My take: Sony as we know it may go away, the Trinitro TVs are far behind us now, same with the original Walkman, CDs, Betamax, etc. the company still has over 140 000 employees, 80 Billion$ income, and they are still restructuring. However, they are clearly not in a position where they can take risks like MS, yet, they somehow managed to offer gamers a much better deal on their new console than MS did, offer an online subscription service that does not make the gamers feel ripped off (pay extra for access to apps and no free games on their new machine) yet Sony's gaming division makes a lot of money for them... this is what I see as a client, hopefully that will continue, because I am not looking forward to a future where the business model MS has choosen to try to impose on the industry, it's not just the DRM, it's the shameless push for paymium content, the idea that they "need" more profits while what they had was already very lucrative, if that becomes the norm, I would probably just keep my old consoles and replay old games (from all manufacturers).
