Nintendo doomed confirmed.

Seriously though, although layoffs are a bad thing for those involved, there is no need for Sony stores, other than something similar to the Nintendo world store. Meaning not a chain, but only one in each of the largest cities.

It's the cool thing to do now a days. Unfortunately, they're kind of pointless because you could always find their inventory at almost any basic electronics store. Companies are probably trying to avoid using other retailers as a middle man but it doesn't always work out, just like in this case, and it's a shame people lost their jobs in the process.

Not true! They had Vita's on sale when I visited. :P

Advertising.. a lot of companies use these stores as advertising.. in the last 10 years "shopping" has dramaticly shifted.. they know they can't compete with online, thats why you see more and more brand stores... these stores are for people to "experience" the brand.. and hopefully buy them online later..  I oversaw the development of these kinda stores creating an "experience".

While I'm all for closing these stores, cause seriously stores like these never have good deals and always found pointless, it does come with me hating it.

1. 1000 people got laid off. regardless how stupid I think these stores are and din' tthink they should have been made in first place its still 1000 people who lost their job.

2. gonna pad the sony financials. Be nice to have a year where sony hasn't sold buildings, headquarters shut down divisions, ect. and actually get a good raeding on how sony is actually doing. These random misc things make it tough to look at the company.

Too bad for the people loosing their jobs.

I never knew there were Sony stores though.

Looks like those stores don't work. But seriously, if you don't want a product, then you would want to experience it.

These stores were a joke anyways, just like Apple stores.

Sucks, but you don't turn a company around without big changes.

I was not aware they had stores to begin with...