Canada falling behind?

Yeah, they have. It's rare, but they have one of these stores near my house (Rio/Brazil).

Sony still had stores? They closed the only one that was around here years ago...don't get me wrong, it was an awesome store. But...I didn't realize they were still a thing.

What's this all a-boot?

Sony's toboggans and poutine have terrible failure rates. Don't even get me started on their toques.

We'll no doubt here all kinds of doom and gloom about this, but this is exactly what needs to happen. When tough times hit you get lean, you trim the fat. They needed to do some spring cleaning and this is what they concluded was best. Ditching their phone business could be the next step since it is costing them. And that's not a bad thing, it's what is necessary for them to become a strong company once again.

Those were some of the lifeless stores I've ever seen. Pretty depressing, especially as Microsoft stores have been opening up and are actually very lively places.

I wouldn't want to stay in an Ouya focused gaming market either.

They should close all of them ww. They charge more then you can find there stuff in other stores

no real need for them since they sell sony stuff in any department store.

The one round here offered service/repairs too, maybe less people repairing stuff hurt their business model somewhat.