‘Old boys’ say Sony chief is losing his way

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TheGreatGamerGod said:

Porcupine_I said:
Aren't the "Old Boys" the ones that brought the company to this point?

Exactly. You innovate during times of growth, not massive financial loss. He's carefully bringing in more income in working divisions, restructuring or selling off divisions which are bleeding cash like the television department all while trying to stop a company that employs over 140,000 people from going into liquidation, largely from the incompetence of these guys. It's also kind of rich coming from Kutaragi, a man who made the PS3 hell to develop for and launched it at a horrible price point with almost no good software and a gimmick controller, it took Harai and Yoshida and their teams years to put the thing into profit after his negligence.

Well to be fair Apple got out of its rut by innovating the Ipod.

You could play it safe and merely cost cut, but the core problem remains: your products aren't selling the way you expect. Cost cutting will just lead to more cost cutting if they don't make a breakthrough product.

If they run their divisions like they run Playstation, then they would have nothing to worry about.