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Sony has strategically set a meeting for Feb 20th for a reason, and it's not just the PS4. However, the final outcome of the PS4 details may be determined by it. It's main focus is to get investor interest, and advertise something that could give a reasonable return on investment. The strategy is, depending on how much investor support they can collect, they'll have a better idea in time for E3 where they can announce things such as the price.

There is a reason why Sony is hyping this meeting up like anything. Investors are incredibly wary towards the gaming market at the moment. Too many gaming industries closing, quite a few high-cost develoment titles failing to get their money back. It is a pretty cautious time to be investing in the gaming industry, and Sony know it.

Sony does not have enough capital to throw around on making a loss per console, and with it's recent financial difficulties (low stock price, issuing high risk bonds), investors may be a little too wary to invest in a business proposal from Sony that's designed to start off making a loss.

So what would happen if investors fail to buy into the hype tomorrow? I can think of a few things:

- The retail price for the console would be forced closer to its "actual cost" region. Could we see another $599 console? Only investment interest can determine that.

- Sony may be forced to take a more casual direction after the success of the Wii last time. Investors would still see it as an emerging market, much like smartphones and epads of their time. It all depends on investor feedback. It's not Sony doing what the market wants, it's investors speculating where the market is GOING. If they think the DS4 is going to be a failure, you'll see Sony changing it quicksmart.

 

Are there any other factors at play here? Could this affect anything else between now and E3?



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I think Sony can make it



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EricFabian said:
I think Sony can make it


Care to elaborate?

Sony need to pitch to the investors that their idea is going to not only be different tot he competition, but one that will get interest as well as a decent ROI. Given their handling of the PS Vita, the look of next gen consoles at the moment, Sony would have to pull off quite a feat to show investors that the PS4 is worth investing in. These people are incredibly knowledgeable about the industry, they don't make massive investments just based on a hunch...



fordy said:

Sony has strategically set a meeting for Feb 20th for a reason, and it's not just the PS4. However, the final outcome of the PS4 details may be determined by it. It's main focus is to get investor interest, and advertise something that could give a reasonable return on investment. The strategy is, depending on how much investor support they can collect, they'll have a better idea in time for E3 where they can announce things such as the price.

There is a reason why Sony is hyping this meeting up like anything. Investors are incredibly wary towards the gaming market at the moment. Too many gaming industries closing, quite a few high-cost develoment titles failing to get their money back. It is a pretty cautious time to be investing in the gaming industry, and Sony know it.

Sony does not have enough capital to throw around on making a loss per console, and with it's recent financial difficulties (low stock price, issuing high risk bonds), investors may be a little too wary to invest in a business proposal from Sony that's designed to start off making a loss.

So what would happen if investors fail to buy into the hype tomorrow? I can think of a few things:

- The retail price for the console would be forced closer to its "actual cost" region. Could we see another $599 console? Only investment interest can determine that.

- Sony may be forced to take a more casual direction after the success of the Wii last time. Investors would still see it as an emerging market, much like smartphones and epads of their time. It all depends on investor feedback. It's not Sony doing what the market wants, it's investors speculating where the market is GOING. If they think the DS4 is going to be a failure, you'll see Sony changing it quicksmart.

 

Are there any other factors at play here? Could this affect anything else between now and E3?

They will not fail.



*Sony announces new console*

Investors: "Sony isn't investing all of their IPs into MOBILE?! Abandon ship!"



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Based to rumour about ps4 i doubt they will not convince investors, ps4 will not be that expensive, it`s able to connect to mobile device and it will have cloud integration.
Sony will also probably show some impressive tech demos.



PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m

small44 said:
Based to rumour about ps4 i doubt they will not convince investors, ps4 will not be that expensive, it`s able to connect to mobile device and it will have cloud integration.
Sony will also probably show some impressive tech demos.

Would have to be:

- Better than the tech demos shown in 2006, and

- Have to set itself apart from current gen in terms of performance. The higher the resultions we work with, the harder it is to express these to the naked eye.



Somini said:

They will not fail.


Way to contribute. I'm looking for insight here...



they're making some good moves.
connect with mobile. watch friends play in real time. connect with psn users over mobile. stream to vita. local lan with vita crossplay. streaming services through cloud.
half of these things are buzzword goldmines. investors will only hear "expand mobile" "cloud computing" "social network play" "streaming". That's all it will take and investors will be "streaming" in their pants.



lol,

who cares what investors think. All that matters is that the gamer is excited and picks up the console. That is how sony will make money and that is how their share prices will rise and investor confidence will be restored.