Even without the unprofitable divisions, Sony still has loads of debt. The whole company is skating on thin ice. They can't afford to have failure.

Its not happening any time soon, but the console industry will be finished in a decade or so. By then, Sony will probably only have their smartphone business left and maybe TV/movie studio partnership.

Idk if saying that a company can live on through selling assets is a healthy way of doing things... Sure they can continue to sell off things but there has to be a point where they have to just stop and make a lot of money... I mean, how long can investors stick with Sony if they keep on losing money? Hopefully in 2014 they will make money but Samsung is owning in the phones market as well as TVs and virtually all other consumer goods that they set their foot into so there is that and it is really hard to compete against a company like Samsung so the only real hope I see for Sony, apart from Playstation, is insurance and movies (and something else but I forgets) which is great but I do have to wonder if they will axe their TV and Mobile division done the road (mobile being a lot later)

They are experts at selling buildings. Nobody like them.

OT: They won't go bankrupt soon.

I really don't think they will go bankrupt anytime soon. The PS4 has momentum going for it and it is sure to pay out in dividends. Now, if they could get the PSVita going again, they would be in a really nice spot.

Maybe make their TVs less undesirable
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They won't go bankrupt, but a Sony in 5 years compared to Sony 5 years ago......night and day difference guaranteed.

Wow some of the responses in here are completely crazy.
"until sony can turn a profit without selling buildings"
"but how many assets can it keep selling before it runs out"
"After console gaming is over, Sony has only phones and movies"

Talk about embarassing, holy crap. Really hope you're all just trolling.

Regardless of who trusts them or not it makes predictions based off if a company strictly follows the path that they're heading in.

They're selling the viao brand and downsizing their TV a lot to avoid loss. Call it what ever you want.

Well there you go. They have a lot of employees and assests they don't particularly need.

I'm pretty the gaming division could generate billions. They're selling consoles as fast as they can make them and they're making profit off each one, games are selling way better than they should during any lauch period, and add that to the money they'll make off PS+ now that it's mandetory for multiplayer (XBL makes hundreds of millions annually). This doesn't even include PS Now which stretches beyond consoles to TVs and mobile devices. I didn't say it can solely carry such a huge company but it could compensate for slacking divisions.

I'm pretty sure I know what i'm talking about. :P

Knack will carry Sony on his back.

Dat attach rate tho xD