Is it harder to be a Sony, Nintendo, or Microsoft fan?

[Zappykins]

MoHasanie said:

Zappykins said:

MoHasanie said:

Zappykins said:

 

It comes down to the games too.  They just don't seem to have the high profile games down that are exclusives.  Te big ones they do are multi plats.  Just looks like it will be rough waters ahead.

And the Bankruptsy part, unfortunately many analist do predict it: http://www.ign.com/blogs/kingalex94/2014/01/03/sony-has-a-79-of-going-bankrupt-soon

It's been going that way for a long time.

Declaring bankrptcy is not the end for such huge corporations. GM declared bankruptcy in 2009 but the government could never let such a huge corporation fail with 200,000+ employees and so helped reorganise the business by closing and selling off factories and subsdiaries. And GM has a huge $172bn in debt so it was in a worse position than Sony is right now.

Similarly Sony with 140,000 employees would never simiply go out of business for just declaring bankruptcy. The government would rescue them first.

Well, yes and no. GM was only valued at $26 Billion at the time so it wasn't that big of a value for the US - but held a number of important jobs from the other companies they relied upon that business.  Sony is currently around $16-17 Billion depending on the day.  I seriusly doubt the US government would do anything for Sony - it doesn't feed other business the way auto manufacturing does.  In other words, it's not as imporant for the US economny as GM was in 2009.  Maybe Japan would.

Sony wouldn't just all dissapear - other companies would buy off pieces.  But just look at THQ and you never know how things are going to fall.  But depends how much they can get for PC manufacturing. Rhode Island worked hard to stop it, but it didn't work out for THQ in the long run.

But maybe you are right, perhapse it's harder to be a Mirosoft or Nintendo fan.

Wow I never knew GM was only worth $26bn at the time! :O . Now it worth twice that. 

No I meant the Japanese gvt would be prepared to rescue Sony. Breaking up Sony and selling different divisions would probably be the worst case scenario but I don't think it will happen, but who knows! 

Yes, and I forget the exact number. But it's saved many, many, many more jobs that even it thought it would.  Turns out saving GM was a very good thing for the USA.  (Still wish they were forced to bring back the EV1 - with today's tech it could be even better!)

I don't know enough about Japan's politics to speculate.  It sort of depends on who you know and who likes you at the time.