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joeorc said:
LudicrousSpeed said:
If you're worried after this sale, then be worried about Sony's financials in general. This sale doesn't mean all that much to them right now. They'll miss some revenue in the future, but there's no telling whether their financial issues were hampering SOE or not anyway. The returns their future games bring now, might not be the same as they would have been with Sony (ignoring the obvious potential added Xbone revenue).


Or/instead increased the cmos production capacity by 20,000 units more a month /plant

Which many smartphone and tablet and HDR cameras that use these Sony made sensors inside the hardware they sell. @ almost $18.00 /sensor sample even with reduction for mass order, every 3 month Apple and Samsung will be ordering a ton of those sensors to put in their devices. And Sony may be looking at this as better returns over the returns that may or may not happen for such software esp. When under Sony it was all free 2 play. And the fact it going to another company means that Sony does not have the overhead to deal with for a Mainly only "Pc development" studio and instead now still get's to have those very same games on playstation console's without having to fit the majority of the bill.

I know they just invested money into that operation with the sensors. Doesn't really pertain to my post though. The SOE deal by itself is something where Sony gets an injection of cash flow now but potentially misses out on a lot more later (from SOE). But if they needed that cash flow for this investment and had to sell off a studio to get it, maybe that is something people should worry about, if they want to be worried about something.