I got ya. I skimmed through the article, didn't really get that vibe. The fact is though, gaming is a very small part of Sony's business. You know that obviously, as you've said, they are mostly an insurance company.

The other thing to factor in though, is Japans economic health..which is not good at all. I took the article to mean basically that, they were wondering which sector would/will save Sony? Sony's debt is massive, and gaming is a volitile business.

Also, remember why Sony entered gaming in the first place, to take over the living room. Times have changed, and that no longer seems to be a viable endeavor. Why stay? This is why I feel M$ is being pressured to exit gaming also.

I'd argue it had more to do with Ken Kutaragi's desire to make fancy gaming tech, and the brand spawned out of Nintendo.

Yeah right, like a lousy $180 million will save them. I don't give a rat's ass about Sony, they haven't made a profit for years and years because competitors are doing a better job. So let them go bankrupt, Nintendo and Microsoft are more than enough to fulfill my gaming needs.

What about their music and movies division? Ain't they doing well?
Playstation is probably a greater part of Sony than before though

dslr are down by estimated 10 to 18% in 2013.. Even canon cut their forecast by a few million.. And mirrorless isn't cathing on.. Its expected that the dslr market will be Canon/Nikon/Sony market within 5 years.. Its not unaffected..

Sony also has low end smartphones Xperia L, tipo, the new E2 and T2 ultra.. These last 2 are specially for emerging markets like china, africa and middle east.. Sony has been a high end product manufactor but that is all in the past.. They trying to compete in every level of the market..

I'm not trying to say doom and gloom but people should look more at the context of the markets Sony has products in.. Which are competitive and hard.. It takes more for them to recover then just cutting of their tv division and sell more phones..

It's true that japans economic condition sucks right now but since there's alot of old people that needs insurance there could be some growth had for Sony's insurance division.

@Bold I'm pretty sure that's microsoft's idea. Sony did try to focus on non gaming stuff with the PS3 and it's earlier iterations to some extent but I highly doubt that they are doing this for the PS4. It's a little different this time around seeing as how they are not relying on a new or useful media format and the fact that the PS3 still does the whole media box thing better.

I doubt microsoft will want to leave after how many losses they have taken and plus they have a shit ton of money to keep it running LOL.

Playstation...ALONE? Most of their money comes from insurance. After that they dominate the camera market. Then they also have a very profitable movie, music, and to a certain degree phone/tablet business.

I swear gaming journalists talking about economics is often as incoherent as celebrities talking politics...

Sony has an archaic corporate structure that's still stuck in the 90s. They need to seriously shrink the size of the company and focus on their core, profitable products. Dropping TV production would be a huge step in the right direction. My guess is that there are still a lot of senior employees in these divisions who aren't exactly easy to get rid of, so it's pretty tough for Kaz to really shrink down the company. The Japanese tech giants need to lean down if they hope to compete with Korean companies and a post dot-com boom economy.

OP brings up alot of good points. I agree with him, People must be blind to not see Sony's problems.

Sony still has to restructure two divisions, but things are going better than in a recent worrying past.

http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sony-makes-profit-after-5-years/