i'd say an easy to use and develop for 300-500$ hardware every let's say 4-6 years is a must. i don't mind if it just a pc in a box as long it's only one (unlike steambox) device for all. people need something physical to identify playstation with it, even if it's just a box that streams games through the internet.

So now we have Nintendo which has been having a pretty large amount of trouble with the Wii U. Xbox which hasn't made a dime in 13 years, and PlayStation which could have it's company fall right out from underneath it.

Things are going well in the gaming world I see.

HA! Rating agencies. The gambling cheats of the modern world (gambling beeing the stock markets).

Once you get their atention you are never coming back up basically. They would be losing on profits otherwise.

Actually it was in 2012.

And to think, everyone says it's Nintendo that's going out of business lol

In very , very simple terms:

1. Sony is losing money right now.
2. The only way to keep the lights on, pay employees, manufacture PS4s, etc. is to borrow money from banks, raise it via the stock market, etc.
3. The rating agencies are telling any potential banks, etc., that loaning money to Sony right now is foolish because will not be able to pay it back.
4. When you can't generate revenue equal to losses (neve mind profit), and can no longer borrow money, you go out of business*.

*Or enter various flavors of bankruptcy which allows you to restructure or shutdown the company completely.

They need to hire someone like Carlos Ghosn: the man that saved Nissan.

Your going to quote actual numbers sir?  But, but, that's not going tomake things look any better. Move alone, there is nothing to see here.  (Cough, cough, 'After Earth' cough 'White House Down' cough.)

But there does seem to be some truth to the Sony making a Windows Phone, rumor.  We shall see.

Steam isn't selling the PC's, those they are leaving to their partners (Just like Microsoft does with their PC's).  They are selling the software base with it's built in distrubution/DRM to make the SteamBox work.  They are directly challenging Mircrosoft's Windows and DirectX and OpenGL and others to get developers to use Linux/SteamWorks (or whatever they end up calling it.)  It's a big risky move, and seems to me like a whole bunch of distracted potential from working on games to creating an operating sytem for some personal reason for a high level guy involved. 

I don't really see the point, unless they can dramatically increase efficiency, security and make things easier to program. Which they might be able to do.  But, just like Windows, it will have to work with a variety of hardware and different specs.  Which will cause it to lose efficiency and optimization - thus being similar to Windows.

I think having a secure system where people can not play games that have been ripped and torrented will be a feature they use to lure in developers.  As, think about. If you sell a game for $30, but it can't really be pirated, it's a good selling feature.

For a thread with such bad news about one of the major players, this one is actually really mature. Baseless potshots are at a minimum, no shooting the messenger .... why can't it be like this with all of the major players???

What worries me about this is I'm really not seeing any clear way out of this. People say sell the TV business, but who would buy and at what price? Would it actually stop the bleeding or only expose the other problems?

As an old school Sega fan, this very much looks like

Sega II: Sony