| BeElite said: Some of you don't seem to understand some basics. Sony might be fucked, but Not PS. Whatever happens to Sony PS will live on, its future is quite bright. If its sold or span of, PS will rock on and continue the PS4 domination. |
You may well be right. The Playstation brand is too ingrained and popular for some other company not to buy it if Sony fails. However, it WON'T be the same, things will change in a big way if that were to happen.
And regardless, there is no ignoring the fact that Sony has not ever made a shit-ton of real profit off of the Playstation brand. Maybe the games, but certainly not their consoles. They lost money hand over fist for years with both PS2 and PS3, because they were using them to specifically push new tech in DVDs and Blu-Ray. PS3 was ridiculously overpriced at launch, and remained overpriced for years, as a gaming machine that is, yet because of the still-new Blu-Ray tech alone , not to mention the "doesn't need to be nearly this powerful" hardware, every system sold was STILL losing money probably up until even 2010 or beyond. It isn't merely a case of Sony's other divisions losing money but their games division is doing fine. The PS brand may be successful, but that doesn't always equal big profit. There are plenty of variables, and in Sony's case, they haven't seen THAT big a return from those investments. The Playstation brand will live on, I believe you're right. But that hardly means that Sony as a company isn't possibly very fucked. Whereas Nintendo is far, far from fucked.
And that, after all, was the point (question) of this thread.
