Should we be worried about SOE being sold?

[VanceIX]

joeorc said:

VanceIX said:
Potentially. All I would say is to be weary over the next year or two. PS4 sales alone won't keep them afloat, and the rest of their markets are doing mediocre to bad.

Why? You think Sony is going to go completely belly up?

Here is a point again I have been pointing out, the way Sony is cutting and down sizing there would not be massive employed payouts to workers in the 100 of thousands of people employees that work at Sony currently, Sony's playstation section is only less than 9000 people total!

Its not going to be the main area that would be let go, it would be other sections, thus cutting and trimming only helps Sony because it will shrink the overhead! When people seem to say, Sony cannot thrive being only a game company..why not?

 

Why cannot Sony become just a game and entertainment company that defines itself as "sony" being only/just that? People say it would be a shadow of its former self, and yet with a debt in 100's of millions, with a junk bond rating was yet again able to create a very fast selling game console. Hell cutting out now of the dedicated Game handheld sysytem space after the PSVita and move that to software/services on smartphones as mainly App store distributions, and PSNow, PSvue and Playstation Mobile releases along with indie focused games for smartphone will generated more profit than Sony could have ever made with a dedicated Game handheld. And still have a large % of the mobile game handheld market because like apple and google and samsung Sony could make games for those smartphone and indirectly compete with Nintendo.

 

As a matter of fact that will also mean more focus for living room console development because with the way the ps4 is selling sofar it seems that is where their real selling power for playstation as a platform is, the living room.

Sony isn't going to belly up, but their gaming and entertainment divisions are nowhere near their most important. They need their camera and phone ivisions to do better, since that's where hte big profit margin is.

Sony needs to get their stuff together and figure out what to do. Nintendo can get away with entertainment-only bussiness because they have such a huge profit margin on all their consoles and games. Sony and Microsoft don't have that, so their gaming core isn't going to keep them running.

Also, not sure if you noticed, but Sony's entertainment business is doing pretty terriblr too, after the hacks and all. Depending on that would be pure stupidity on their part.