Sony's new plan means fewer TVs and smartphones, more PlayStations

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MoHasanie said:

darkknightkryta said:

MoHasanie said:

darkknightkryta said:

R & D with what?  More T.V.s?  Phones that aren't selling?  Sony's tech is top of the line, and for the most part fairly priced.  The only thing Sony could have invested more in would be advertising, and that may or may not have saved them.  If they sold off media, they'd be stuck with dead divisions while their profitable divisions are making money for someone else (Which is what that investor wanted).  That would have been guaranteed bankruptcy.  Sony still has a chance to turn things around with media, as their games division is showing.  That media potential's the only thing preventing investors from jumping ship in my opinion  Though the focus on media should have been made 10 years ago, but I digress.

Sony is no longer a market leader like it once was. Its scary that even 10 years ago, Sony was the leader globally in electronics. Now they are late to develop everything and are always trying to catch up with Samsung, Apple, and even some Chinese companies. 

Catch up with what?  The Z phone has always been the best smartphone in that class.  T.V.s have also always been top notch.  Only thing they were really behind was with their music players.  But even then there isn't a music player that has the audio quality that the walkman do.  There's also issues with tech in general.  There's a reason why Samsung has to scale back their smartphones.  

Catching up with everything. Were they first to make a smartphone? No, they were not. Sony started releasing great phones once the market became too competitive and Samsung and Apple had already become the dominant players in the phone industry. Had Sony released the Xperia Z phone in 2009 or 10, Xperia could have been as popular as the Galaxy S series phones from Samsung. I'm not saying Sony products aren't good quality, I'm saying that Sony is too late to develop products and this hurts them the most. 

Sony only wanted to develop quality products instead of quantity at first thats the problem. They realized and tried to provide more in the last two years but its too late and now they want to focus on only few quality products because Mobiles markets are saturated by many companies so samsung also have to cut down they mobiles for next year. I think sony is right on track now by getting the PS4 in many homes then providing on demand services through network in movies, TV, Music and Games through PS4(which will sell 100 million) so they can get huge users by asking users to subscript to their service. I think we might see huge push in Gaming from next year and its going to be PS2 level.