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Forums - Gaming - My simple theory as to why the "analysts" are always rooting for Sony.

Beja-Beja on 25 May 2008

thread poster is probably as blazed as i am. ur problem is that analysts pick ps3 and u don't? solution ..... point and laugh at them when they are wrong



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Zucas on 25 May 2008

Thread is a fail. Dont' have time for conspiracy theories with no backign whatsoever.



Deeds on 25 May 2008
bbsin said:
@ Deeds - I don't think you have an idea of how Sony makes money in the first place. I don't know how long you've been investing but I've been trading stocks for quite a while and believe me when I say this: Sony is not the only company in "debt" and still continue to run their business at a high level, ESPECIALLY in their industry. There is a reason why Sony has an enormous finance department (probably bigger than all of the electronics manufactures in the world), if Sony really wanted to get rid of all their debt (like America) they would. The only problem is that it's not on the top of their CFO's "to do" list, there are better ways to put money in their pocket's (unfortunately the majority of their pocket's are those pesky execs) given the large revenue Sony can create. Razor thin profits, debt, crap equity returns, are all too common in the industries that Sony participates, the majority of investors know this. If Sony were a micro corporation without a history and did not have many many different ways to generate returns then yes, Debt would handcuff them. But saying that Sony is actually in bad shape or handcuffed because of the 3 billion in debt (last time i checked) is pretty ignorant. Now this doesn't mean I'm saying that Sony is in a carefree great situation and every is dandy for them, but they sure as hell aren't handcuffed, espeicially given the point that they could get a financial backing from many sources.

With that said, you are right about one thing. Analyst are bias and do get paid for their reports, but assuming that Sony are the only ones that do this stuff is stupid.

  I'll just say this... Sony does not have a total debt of 3 billion dollars. It's significantly higher than that.

Deeds on 25 May 2008
Zucas said:
Thread is a fail. Dont' have time for conspiracy theories with no backign whatsoever.

You simply are ignorant of how the "investment community operates". Analysts were telling investors to buy Worldcom stock, Enron stock and not to sell or get out of Bear Sterns. Analysts will never ever say that the Wii will win, I guarantee you.

Rock_on_2008 on 25 May 2008

@Op where is the link to prove this conspiracy theory?



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eliasg on 25 May 2008

as they paid warner to choose blu ray over HD DVD (*sarcasm)



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mariozeldametroid on 25 May 2008

@deeds: lol, in 10 years, when the Wii will have sold +120, maybe even +150 million units, the PS3 maybe -80 million units, and the 460 40-50 million units, the analysts will come by and say: ''It's OK, Wii's sales will be negative any minute now! We can still be right!,,
Plausible, because some analysts already predict Wii will be selling negatively in 2010 or so.



Deeds on 25 May 2008
Rock_on_2008 said:
@Op where is the link to prove this conspiracy theory?

There is no conspiracy. It's just business. An analysts job is to reassure investors and consumers. If there was a conspiracy, Sony and its credit banks would pay or encourage retailers not to stock Wiis. That is illegal and it isn't happening.

Bored4life on 25 May 2008

Sony fanboy Pachter won an award.

He sucks the least apparently.

http://kotaku.com/5010478/pachter-earns-financial-times-number-one-award

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Nate on 25 May 2008

I think Deeds has a high chance of being correct if Malestrom is right in saying that private analysts are that much different than public analysts. However the banks that issue these reports are probably far more concerned about Sony buying new debt from them than worrying about Sony paying it back. Remember, banks are in the business of debt creation.

And to all the dumb-asses on this thread, a CONFLICT OF INTEREST is not a CONSPIRACY.