Yeah.....no. Not a good idea. People should be more worried about why Sony is only outsourcing its television business rather than selling it off. Their mobile phones, while only taking a small portion of the smartphone market, are nevertheless doing well. Playstation managed to make a very small loss despite recently launching a new console. Their cameras are really good and Sony owns a huge marketshare in music. Why split off the good parts of Sony? -_-

You will get used to it, all the Sony goes bankrupt doom sayers. In the meantime I'll continue to buy games on the Playstation 3 and looking forward to buy a Playstation 4. #Satisfied customer 

I never spin, I get dizzy to easily.

Sony's poor finacials are facts.

The endless stream of the opinions of those who think they know how the company should be run is propoganda.

Expecting PlayStation to be Sold off or do fine with out Sony is expecting s person to just be fine when their home has been torn down.

Until I hear it from the horse's mouth, this just looks like grasping.

I've read the thread.

The first three lines were a response to you're response specifically: spinning, facts, and propoganda.

The bolded was in response to many of the posts in this thread, in fact on the first page many have implied such.

As for the hypotheticals, my response to those is covered in the last line, since most of these predictions and probabilities have been rendered moot considering the company is still here.

So um.......PS brand a separate company soon?

wathc later in 10 years the PS phone outselling the sony xperia lol.

but seriously....sony needs to stop loosing billions YEARLY.

Sigh.... and thats what you still refuse to get. There is nowhere in any sony financial statement that there is a reference to or for an "8th gen". That is just media and gamer talk. As far as sony as a company is concerned.... there is a Playstation division. That is the only fact there is. 8th gen? does not exist in sony's books. Playstation spends and makes a certain amount of money every year. Thats it. 

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I WASN'T TALKING ABOUT SONY'S FINANCIAL STATEMENT. I was replying to a very specific post on this thread that said that sony's 8th gen gaming division in particular was in a "great position."

If Sony isn't making money in gaming why stay? If PS isn't making money who in their right mind would buy it? Sony should downsize to insurance only. Where else do they create profit?

Well, i was wrong on that but you implied it!

"But may happen by Default"

what? I mean its one thing to try to sit there and say they will spin off parts of the company, but saying Sony will not be making electronics is just very wishful thinking! with the fact there is over 140+ billion in physical assets there is very unlikely any chance for Sony to sell off those kind of Assets in any short time frame, hell it cost's them in Billions to restructure, selling off those Assets means looking for companies willing to take off the part of the company @ a price Sony's Board is willing to divest themselves of, and that takes Time!

And for the fact some of those ASSETS ARE WORTH THE ASKING PRICE Sony is asking for, because if they were not, Sony would have been able to offload them already, not very many companies has the cash on hand to purchase the physical Asset that Sony has at the price they would ask for it, thus they are trying to wait it out, its classic "The Vultures" want to buy cheap because 3rd party "RATING COMPANIES" LOWER THE PERCIEVED VALUE OF SAID COMPANY SO AS TO BUY SUCH ASSETS CHEAP (BUY LOW SELL HIGH)

The very fact Dan Loeb asked for a starting bid of Sony's Entertainment assets for starting @ 20% shows exactly why they want to take that large of chunk out of control away from the board , the board told them to in a very polite manner No!

at this point , the fact that Sony's board is cutting out parts and down turn production shows they are in fact cutting where they in fact need too.

Sony employs over 138,000+ people mainly Japanese, they are and mostly looking out for those employed, Again the west has been trying this for over 40 d@mn years, again there is many times proof + that what works in the west does not work that way in japan, if it did this would not really be an issue, even under Abe's direction, the change to more west centric ways of the market is not anywhere where it would need to be in japan to make that type of change that you and many other's seem to be looking for to happen, past history shows that you are going to be waiting for a very long d@mn time, if ever!

its even more indepth than that, the very problem is that many japanese look at such companies such as Sony that helped rebuild "japan" the fact Sony was one of the companies there tohelp rebuild japan after WW2. To the many japanese that means Quite a bit, many employed japanese have friends and family that work there, the people in charge are mainly japanese, and since the west centric Holding Hedge fund's are not japanese, many view those as pretty much non viable to dictate direction of said Japanese company, even if the west centric Holdings may be able to run the company better.

Thats just the way they view it, its not really an issue of the Money its the issue of culture. and until that changes it will not change!