While I get what you are saying , my point was there is an opening anytime any company wants to jump in. The problem is 3D stacked TSV is not something you can just jump right into..so to speak, the problem is you need these type of chips because consumer's want the thin phones and tablets and its rare you see a brick of a phone being the major.

I think if what you stated was Apple would go somewhere else if Sony could not provide it, where would they in fact go?

Take a look at this:

http://www.analog-eetimes.com/en/european-3d-tsv-summit-to-add-business-focus.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=222906726

After decades of development its just now getting to this point!

Not just in one component all, and not every company can do it all that's why if you notice where each company went. Its not that Apple could go somewhere else, it is that they would not go anywhere else, because of the design of these sensor's are the kind they need, so unless another company has had the decades of building this type of method of production they cannot go anywhere else.

The point of it is, Apple needs this just as much as Sony needs to sell it to applel It really has nothing to do with keeping comp. Out because there is no other company that has designed their image cmos sensors that fits Apple's requirements.

But if Sony could not keep up production Apple would not be happy along with Samsung, so on that point you are correct Sony wants to keep up with as much demand as they can. But due to the complexity of the chip its not always going to net the highest yields all the time..lol

Now i get it... See i wasnt even sure if you were kidding and that wasnt Cage.

Yeah... Shu had jet lag i heard. Still funny though.

One or two saying sony could potentially make more in future if they held onto them. I'd say it would be a very long time before they made a profit equal to the sale of this. Plus they will still make money from the games released on ps4 in future. I highly doubt they would recoup the money from this sale anything soon especially when the studio is so costly to run. You need to look at the bigger picture.

If you look at history though, that is a profitable area to invest the money because they are used by many different manufacturers and brands, not just Sony.  This could actually be a smart move for Sony as a parent company as long as they don't overestimate the demand.  Only time will tell though.

Yes, it is a smart move. They provide sensors for the top selling smart devices in the world, so they have to keep up with the demand. SOE was just a strange and out-of-place component while their sensor business trives.

I really do not think it WS such out of place, when Sony is cutting operational expenses. Like for example, in that very same press release, Sony is going to be closing down the Toshiba chip production plant they bought off of Toshiba a few years back. And as the report about john stating SOE has had a few rough years and that the 3 largest IP licence iP's ,Sony paid like starwars and DCUO for example did not generate as much profit as they would have liked. Sony even laid off people in two studios of SOE so selling it off would be better than the people getting laid off, don't you think?

I think they were looking to trim the fat so to speak of, they held out as long as they may have decided was reasonable. I think it had to do alot with what was a good fit for the Playstation platform as to continue to split further resource with Pc development while not really giving any real exclusive benefit to playstation platforms. 

When the Games in Question are on Pc's that pretty much means in this case the keys open anyway. That by very blunt terms means its multi-platform by core terms its already on non playstation hardware anyway already

It was always weird to see Sony releasing games on PC first and then, maybe, on PS.

Community wise, yea, we should be worried. SOE had cross platform play, whether it be PS3 + PS4, PS3 + PC, or PS4 + PC. Xbox doesn't allow that. So, now they'll have to build their games based on 0 community interaction, because Xbox has to be taken into consideration.

Yea, yea, I know, Fable Legends. But that's a wait and see approach. Because the first time MS allowed cross play (Shadowrun) they didn't try to make things work, they quickly turned their backs to it. We don't know what they'll do with FL, so that's a bad precedent

I understand what you are saying, but the entire point is that Sony is no longer exclusively a Japanese company. They are a world-wide company, and so they need to get their act together world wide. Japan is not anywhere near as important to them in terms of entertainment as Europe and North America are. If they can't adjust to the forign market, this stuff happens.

Sony is no longer the giant in the room. If they want to make a profit, they either need to do a 180 in terms of marketing and stop trying to be the "luxury" brand of the tech world, or if they want to rely heavily on entertainment profits (as you suggested), they need to be much more careful in terms of what movies they make, and they would have to leave the power war with Microsoft with the consoles and go back to developing cheaper hardware that has a higher profit ceiling, thus allowing you to make less intensive games as well and make more profit on those too. Thats the only way you make a sustaining profit on console gaming right now, and Nintendo is getting a lot of flak for doing just that.