Should we be worried about SOE being sold?

[VanceIX]

joeorc said:

VanceIX said:

Seeing as that Sony has been losing more and more money every year, and still retains some of their worst qualities that resulted in this crisis, and has been forced to spin/sell off many divisions including important ones like VAIO and Bravia, yes, I think that the Sony heads have no fricken clue what they are doing. The arrogance of their execs and inability to adjust to the market has always hurt them, and continues to. There has been some change, but at this point it's too little too late for the most part. I'm not saying this as a Sony hater, I love Sony with all my heart but the higher ups in most of their divisions have been plain incompetent at many times throughout the years.

If you wish to turn a blind eye to that, and pretend that what I'm saying has no meaning, good on you. Sony'll just continue to hemmorage money while you rave about the competence of their higher ups.

Take a look at this:

http://anime.astronerdboy.com/2011/06/mr-baseball-movie-of-japanese-culture.html#.VNCHIJ_0Dcd

Its very easy to point from a west centric point of view this is the way it needs to be.

Its very easy to keep pointing that out.

The problem is in japan, this may only be the way it can be right now.

Social limitation on how a company is ran may put problems in the way like taking care of the employed unless you can offer a solution to a problem with these restrictions in place and trying to change those restrictions you have. To work with in may be not only problematic, but also slow going to enact change of those very same restrictions.

I understand what you are saying, but the entire point is that Sony is no longer exclusively a Japanese company. They are a world-wide company, and so they need to get their act together world wide. Japan is not anywhere near as important to them in terms of entertainment as Europe and North America are. If they can't adjust to the forign market, this stuff happens.

Sony is no longer the giant in the room. If they want to make a profit, they either need to do a 180 in terms of marketing and stop trying to be the "luxury" brand of the tech world, or if they want to rely heavily on entertainment profits (as you suggested), they need to be much more careful in terms of what movies they make, and they would have to leave the power war with Microsoft with the consoles and go back to developing cheaper hardware that has a higher profit ceiling, thus allowing you to make less intensive games as well and make more profit on those too. Thats the only way you make a sustaining profit on console gaming right now, and Nintendo is getting a lot of flak for doing just that.