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Kerotan said:
Seece said:
Devil_Survivor said:
Seece said:
So I've just seen the huge dip Digital Cameras has taken over the last couple of years

FY12 - 17m
FY13 - 11.5m
FY14 - 8m (Forecast)

And it's only going to get smaller, to the point of irrelevance surely?

With TV's being a money sink and Phones prooving an ever more challenging market, Sony only really have Playstation and Semi Conductors as viable products.


What about movies and music? Sony still makes money there.

Not sure how their other divisions are doing, I was talking more about their electronics which is the heart of Sony.



what sony are about is making money. whatever parts of sony make the most money are the parts that they are about the most. 

Look I agree with most things about SOny's financials but if they sold off the divisions that lose money they get a huge windfall of cash and be left with profiting divisions. Obviously the company would be half the size but it would still be pretty big and a very profitable company at that. It's just it's so hard for them to let some of those divisions go but it's getting to the point where they will have to. TV's is the hardest because they've dined at the top table for so long. 


Uh yeeeeeah, that's why they've lost so many billions over the last half decade and continue to hang onto money sinks?

I would argue at certain points Sony are reckless and don't care about profit. Look at the PS2 era, they had a majority share, selling incredibly well, but cut $100 the PS2 when it didn't need it.

As a result they hardly made any profit that generation depsite selling 100m~ units of hardware and 2 billion software units (Nintendo actually made more money with GBA and Gamecube) Then there is the PS3 money sink.

If Sony are about making money they've got a funny way of showing it?