PC always seemed like a strange place to be. Only Apple can get away with selling overpriced computers without having a budget line of computers where the proftability really exists on the basis of volume rather than margin. Sony tried to be a premium PC brand, but it doesn't work in PC-land.

I think Sony could reinvent itself a bit in TV, but starting a brand that does cater to the cheaper end of town, and can compete on volume with the other brands, and retain the Sony/Bravia brand for the high end. It would be weird for Sony to exit TV because they've been there forever. Funny thing is every time I've been in the market for a TV Bravia has always been exactly in my price/size/features sweet spot, so without intending to buy Sony the last 3 TV's I've bought have all been Sony, and that includes the last CRT TV I ever bought before getting into LCD. So I feel like Sony could stick it out with TV if they can change it up a bit. Kind of like the reverse of What Toyota did in cars, Toyota was always middle class to cheap cars, then they created the Lexux brand to get into the more luxury end of the market.

Seems like offloading PC is their attempt to get rid of one millstone, perhaps in the hopes of being able to carry the other millstone until it can start pulling its own weight. If Sony becomes basically only a finance company that makes game consoles it's just not a good balance. But maybe it should just be a Finance company, and have no tech divisions.

What a shame, Sony was making the best Windows laptops, stylish and very premium look in a market with full of the usual fat plastic baggage laptops. If they're out of business I might move to a Macbook Pro Retina and install Windows on there, last year the MBPr was seen as the best Windows laptop.

LOL Xbox more worth than Nintendo? Bloomberg must've made an error somewhere, surely they dont mean 2.3 bn? Nintendo sells more hardware and software than Xbox and the only market Xbox is relevant in is the US and UK and even there they get outsold by Nintendo.

I know, back in the 1980's and 1990's Sony was the first name in electronics quality. I loved their Discmen and everyone wanted to have one. 

Won't argue about bad reliablity with HP (fact), I'm just saying that they're selling quite, quite well. Mainly because the hardware you get (if it works) is much more powerful than what most other manufacturers give you (for the money). Even manufacturers like Acer or Asus... like I said, at least here, in Israel. I have an Acer lappy myself, 3+ years of ownership, still going strong.

oh boy. This statement is so wrong in so many ways.

If you look at it like that, then playstation must be worth double the market cap of sony?

apparantly they're doing this for a greater push in smartphones.
http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/02/04/sonys-vaio-brand-reportedly-being-sold-off-for-greater-smartphone-push/

..luckily he beat you to that ban aswell

Oh shizzz, yea luckily. I would have worded it different to lighten the blow but maybe it wouldn't have mattered.