The "old boys" are bitter about Apple and Samsung passing up Sony, who became too comfortable after playstation's success(es). Notice how the article mentions walkman...old school Sony guys thought they should have come out with ipod, smartphones first etc.

those old timers would've sunk sony in an instant. Hirai is doing a great job at keeping sony alive in today's economy. His efforts are paying off.

Ken kutaragi is the last person who can talk about running anything the way he almost blew things with the ps3.

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^ winner winner chicken dinner.

I pray he doesnt listen to them

Exactly. You innovate during times of growth, not massive financial loss. He's carefully bringing in more income in working divisions, restructuring or selling off divisions which are bleeding cash like the television department all while trying to stop a company that employs over 140,000 people from going into liquidation, largely from the incompetence of these guys. It's also kind of rich coming from Kutaragi, a man who made the PS3 hell to develop for and launched it at a horrible price point with almost no good software and a gimmick controller, it took Harai and Yoshida and their teams years to put the thing into profit after his negligence.

No, they are those who make Sony the biggest eletronic manufecture and technology inovators in the world.

Sony is making money folowing others lead, of flat out holding inovation. PS4 is a success mostly because it didn´t change what a console is. And who knows how long it can keep that momentum?

Innovation is important but when you are captaining a ship in danger of capsizing, your first and only priority is righting the ship, not inventing new navigation methods. After they are in a more stable position, then we can see how innovative or non-innovative they are.

But they have innovated with the xperia z line..... A premium waterproof handset...... They just don't advertise hard enough beyond the ps4.....

Lol, you sound like you know who all those old dogs are, care to let us in on your secret?

Ken Kutaragi not only created PS he also almost killed it as well with his need to innovate, as for the only other name mentioned in this article, Tamotsu Iba, that dude was the Director of the Life Insurance business according to Bloomberg, surely a place full of technology innovators...

Oh and I'm sorry that the PS4 is successful because Sony was intelligent enough to not force a utterly worthless "innovation" on people.