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Areal-Llort said:
Azerth said:

Guess they ran out of buildings to sell

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Why is it that when someone talks bad about Sony, they are reported/banned? Yet, when the same is done to Microsoft no one gets warned or anything? I've been seeing this alot lately.

I think it's the Sonyites

 

The Sonyite forces are becoming too strong

 

The Sonyites have just recently defeated the dark lord and bringer of Xbox news Nsanity after a very long battle

 

They must be stopped!



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DamnTastic said:
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/

The reason the sales are bad is because their pc's are a ripoff. Nobody will buy laptops that are 50% more expensive than the competition. 



    

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Pemalite said:
dandd said:
I can see why they want to sell off their PC business, but I wouldn't call this a good sign for Sony. No business really wants to shrink. The best course would be to make the divisionn profitable again, but the PC market is declining and I'm sure Sony just wants out.

Quite sad really, Sony used to be a "go to" brand, now its just the PS4 company.


Indeed.
The PC market is in decline across the board, with one sole exception. - The PC gaming market and other facets that rely on that market, which is still seeing large growth.

However with that in mind, even though the PC market is in decline it is still shifting 300 million or more units per year, if Sony cannot or is not willing to compete for some of that pie, well. That's their own failure, lenovo for instance has been capturing marketshare and posting continued growth at the expensive of it's competitors who failed to innovate and be competitive on multiple fronts.

Sony *could* have been in a similar position, it's really their own fault.

Lenovo is chinese, they can get away with paying their workers waaay less money. And they don't innovate, they simply erode the prices so that it's unprofitable for others to compete in that market.



DamnTastic said:
NiKKoM said:
MoHasanie said:
selnor1983 said:
NiKKoM said:
ow wow.. its like worth nothing... ~400 million dollar?I thought Viao was worth more than that.. for example with the MS stuff going on Bloomberg estimates that the Xbox division is worth 23 billion dollar.. surely Viao should be worth more then ~400 million


The entirity of Sony is worth 19 billion. Xbox is worth more than All of Sony.  Not just more than Playstation. Just shows the business side of things MS does well.

I doubt the Xbox division is worth $23bn! Seems too high. Maybe the whole devices division is worth that much? 

Bloomberg had an article about investors wanting breaking up MS from that article:

Xbox, which started selling the new Xbox One console in November, may be worth about $23 billion on its own, based on Nintendo Co. (7974)’s price-sales ratio, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-04/less-microsoft-is-more-as-investors-eye-breakup-real-m-a.html

do believe that Bloomberg know what they are talking about as they compare the value against nintendo..

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

Maybe the $23bn figure is the value of all of the Xbox related stuff including all the game studios MS owns, plus all the assests of the Xbox business. Although I still think that value is way too high. 



    

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enditall727 said:
Areal-Llort said:
Azerth said:

Guess they ran out of buildings to sell

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This user was moderated by TruckOSaurus for this post.


Why is it that when someone talks bad about Sony, they are reported/banned? Yet, when the same is done to Microsoft no one gets warned or anything? I've been seeing this alot lately.

I think it's the Sonyites

 

The Sonyite forces are becoming too strong

 

The Sonyites have just recently defeated the dark lord and bringer of Xbox news Nsanity after a very long battle

 

They must be stopped!

Sure, it must have been sony fans that made him depressed not real life problems.

Personally I don't think NSanity is weak to leave because of sony. But if they annoy you so much you could as for a permaban yourself.





duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

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MoHasanie said:
DamnTastic said:
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/

The reason the sales are bad is because their pc's are a ripoff. Nobody will buy laptops that are 50% more expensive than the competition. 


That's pretty much the problem with most of their electronic brands. In the 90s Sony could get away with charging a higher premium on their electronics because of brand prestige, but Apple and Samsung pretty much stole all their thunder. 



Sony is going to be alright I think. Just going through a business change right now. However, if the smallest chance in the world that they go out of business, then Ill still have my PC master race to fall back to;)



 

DonFerrari said:
enditall727 said:
Areal-Llort said:
Azerth said:

Guess they ran out of buildings to sell

~ Mod edit ~

This user was moderated by TruckOSaurus for this post.


Why is it that when someone talks bad about Sony, they are reported/banned? Yet, when the same is done to Microsoft no one gets warned or anything? I've been seeing this alot lately.

I think it's the Sonyites

 

The Sonyite forces are becoming too strong

 

The Sonyites have just recently defeated the dark lord and bringer of Xbox news Nsanity after a very long battle

 

They must be stopped!

Sure, it must have been sony fans that made him depressed not real life problems.

Personally I don't think NSanity is weak to leave because of sony. But if they annoy you so much you could as for a permaban yourself.



It is weak of him though because he did ask for a perma ban and then immediately created an alt just to troll until that got perma banned as well,quite pathetic..



Blood_Tears said:

It is weak of him though because he did ask for a perma ban and then immediately created an alt just to troll until that got perma banned as well,quite pathetic..

What was his alt's name, if I may ask?



osed125 said:

As I said a while ago, if Sony business keeps going like this, it will become a much smaller company than it was a decade ago, they won't go into bankruptcy nor anything like that, but it will definitely be a smaller company, and that's never a good thing. 

Sony is already 1/10th of the company they were in 2000 by valuation. 

They are 1/3 what they were in 2007.  They have already gotten much smaller.  Not sure how much smaller they can get an not go into bankruptcy.

And having two major flops last year didn't help Sony Pictures either.



 

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned. 

Top 50 'most fun' game list coming soon!

 

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