with samsung and apple in the neighborhood? i doubt it. although it can become profitable again , i think it will never be as big as it used to.

nope, until sony actually sells their tvs, laptops, etc at prices that are on par with the quality of their products. hellz no!

for example, my mom and dad just bought a 32 lcd sony tv. it was good, but for that price, they could have gotten a larger and better samsung tv.

Sony is gonna need to split up their divisions into different companies or something. The TV division is beyond horrible, and due to japanese law they can't just fire all those people. They haven't been innovating like in the past and some things that are out of their control have further crushed them. They don't have the financial advantage that they had in the past, Microsoft has a huge advantage there and even Nintendo does at this point not that they need it. The PS2 or PS3 strategy is out of the question, they will have to recreate what happened with the PS1, which was half their doing and half their competition making stupid decisions.

Actually if the PS3 sold extremely well at first Sony would be even more in trouble because it was being sold at such a high loss. But really Sony's just been very unlucky lately (poor timing with the PS3 coming out high priced during the recession, tsunami, etc), give them time, the japanese are a proud group of people, they won't give up without givin it there all.

You guys wont like it but Sony has to cater to the mass market. That also means to stop trying to be the most powerful handheld and console and make middle-power products.

Not weak but not the most high spec thing out there, so it can retail for a affordable price. Basically take their business model back to the PS1 and PS2 days.

Nope.

The market has changed. When Sony got in the business their only competition was Sega and Nintendo. Neither of which were in their prime.

Sony was hip, new, cool, and getting all the great exclusives. But then about 12 years later they went crazy and put out a $600 console.

The End

It's going to be tough for Sony to return to PS1/PS2 type dominance sicne the market is more saturated and more competitive now. Though, I do think their next console will do better than the PS3, at least out of the gate.

And, not to take away from the successes of Sony in the late 90s-early 2000s, but part of their absolute monopoly on gaming at the time was assisted by Sega's terrible marketting causing their eventual collapse, along with Nintendo making boneheaded and stubborn moves with the N64 and Gamecube which alienated their fan base.

edit: and I know this is about Sony as a whole, but I just feel like talking about their gaming division. So sue me :P

Well what I said can easily be applied to Sony as a whole