so if that is the case than the

"Hirai, promoted a month ago to replace Howard Stringer as the company's top officer effective Sunday, has restructured the electronics business around three "pillars": mobile, games and digital imaging."

Tv's is not one of the  Pillar's

PC's i doubt also are part of one of these Pillar's also

So yeah Sony is following the shrinking plan that stringer put down.

Agreement

You guys do realize that there is a reason people lose billions on the stock market, prices can drop as quickly as they rise. Crowing to Kow about rises now might make you all look very silly in the future.

Sony already said they wouldn't do this. Why isn't the stock falling?

i do not think the people crowing about a rise in the stocks is , going on and on about that the  outright long term thing as is a certainty, if anything many of the poster's are not as pessimistic on the outlook what Sony would need to do about the part's of the company. when what Sony has shown sofar is the parts that Sony is bleeding money and not avoiding the issue's at hand and that the results Kaz and company are taking are showing + results to fix the issue's. I do not think its about crowing only + outcome's but on the same token many are not going to be looking at it as only a  pessimistic+ outlook also. I think its more of the same thing both sides of their outlook , look at each other's view of this situation be that pessimistic or optimistic.

I agree, but Kowen isn't perfect either. He does the same.

MS investors probably see the Xbox division as useless since its made such huge loses in the past, and its profits in relation to other MS products are small. But, MS needs to diversify and they can't just rely on Windows and Office software forever. 

Sony investors probably see the PS4 having potential, and if Sony can replicate the PS2's success with the PS4, then it could be quite profitable. But we'll just have to wait and see if investors react positively to more news of the PS4. I would imagine that a new high end Sony smartphone would probably make investors more happy than Sony just showing the box of the PS4. 

Cant say i expected such a mega huge gain today O.o

because many see

Dan Loeb for what he is:

He is a corporate raider
The appearance of Loeb in Japan, which has been trapped in decades of economic malaise, would have been unthinkable not long ago. Activist investors, then called corporate raiders, have been part of the American business environment since the 1980s, when the fictional Gordon Gekko attacked corporate boards and executive vice-presidents in the name of public shareholders. But activist investors have not played a role in Japan. Ironically, at the time corporate raiders burst on the scene, the U.S. economy seemed to be stuck in a rut while Japan was ascendant. Japan’s Nikkei stock index hit its all-time high in 1989, two years after Michael Douglas immortalized the Gekko character in the movie Wall Street, saying “greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA.”

Activists investors like Loeb are still criticized in the U.S. A few weeks ago, for example, Loeb was knocked for allegedly supporting an effort to deny teachers and other public-sector workers guaranteed benefits while raising money from such defined benefit plans for his hedge funds. Still, some people have long wondered if corporate Japan wouldn’t benefit from having a guy like Loeb around. It seems like Loeb is up for the challenge.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2013/05/14/gordon-gekko-comes-to-japan/

He is asking for Sony to

"

To Mr. Loeb, more must be done, starting with the spinoff of Sony Entertainment. Though the division accounts for more than 40 percent of the company’s enterprise value, he said in his letter that it needed discipline to raise its profit margins. Mr. Loeb estimated that a partial spinoff of the entertainment business could bolster Sony’s share price by as much as 60 percent.

In his letter, Mr. Loeb proposed handing 15 to 20 percent of Sony Entertainment to existing shareholders. His firm would be willing to backstop the initial public offering up to $2 billion to ensure its success.

Other underappreciated assets include the company’s 60 percent stake in Sony Financial, which largely sells life insurance policies, as well as real estate holdings and stakes in other companies. And Mr. Loeb is expected to argue that Sony’s electronics division must sharply reduce costs, including by taking a cue from its protégé, Apple, in focusing on a few core products."

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/hedge-fund-manager-daniel-loeb-targets-sony-for-a-breakup/?smid=tw-nytimesdealbook&seid=auto

iE: A HOSTILE TAKE over!

Of course Sony is saying No!

The Xbox 360 has done very well and the investors still dont care. They just want MS to drop gaming and focus on Apple because they are going on a tear right now. Microsoft has been ignoring them for years truth be told. Its probably because its not doing anything for the bottomline where apple is concerned to tell you the truth.

I agree with this point. People hype positively or negatively short term swings while ignoring long term perspective.  If you invest in the market for a while you see these events, but betting on them has very high risk/reward.  I'd rather stick to a plan that ensures 7-10% ROI per annum than jumping on what ever hot stock is out there.