So we've all heard about the rumor that Sony is closing major division's next month.. And in the Kotaku article it said there is a "few" major divisions.. Oh really? Not saying these are all HUGE divisions, but it's funny how they all jump to the Playstation conclusion.

Sony Assurance Inc.
Sony Bank Inc.
Sony Broadband Solutions Corporation
Sony Broadcast Media Co., Ltd
Sony Chemical & Information Device Corporation
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.,
Sony Digital Network Applications Inc.
Sony Disc & Digital Solutions Inc.
Sony EMCS Corporation.
Sony Energy Device Corporation.
Sony Engineering Corporation
Sony Enterprise Co., Ltd.
Sony Facility Management Corporation
Sony Finance International, Inc.
Sony Financial Holdings, Inc.
Sony Global Solutions Inc.
Sony Human Capital Corporation.
Sony Institute of Higher Education Shohoku College
Sony Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
Sony LSI Design Inc.
Sony Manufacturing Systems Corporation
Sony Marketing (Japan) Inc.
Sony Music Communications Inc.
Sony Music Distribution (Japan) Inc.
Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.
Sony Music Manufacturing Inc.
Sony Optiarc Inc.
Sony PCL Inc.
Sony Semiconductor Kyushu Corporation
Sony Shiroishi Semicondustor Inc.
Sony Style (Japan) Inc.
Sony Supply Chain Solutions, Inc.
Sony/Taiyo Corporation
bitWallet, Inc.
FeliCa Networks, Inc
Frontage Inc.
Kyoshin Technosonic Co., Ltd.
REASON Corporation
So-net Entertainment Corporation
So-net M3, Inc.
ST Liquid Crystal Display Corp.
ST Mobile Display Corporation
Star Channel, Inc.

In the end of it all, I doubt playstation will be closed, it's too big of a brand with major dev supporters still.

Lol, this thread got buried.

/owned

There are different interpretations to the article's claim... Major divisions could well refer to one of these instead of one of Sony's divisions which are discriminated in the financial reports.

In any case we'll have to wait and see, all we can do is speculate and discuss different possibilities. What we do know is that Sony will have to do something, article or not.

Thanks for bumping it, Smashed. It really does paint a different picture.

No problem.

MAJOR divisions...so...sorry..only a few major divisions

the reason playstation is assumed or thought of is because of the billion or millions it lost and still may be loosing for sony.

you don't shut down a profitable (though may be small) division of your company to help support a division that is loosing you a ton of money.

Edit:  I don't care how much you think a company wants to please you (fans) that doens't matter.  The CEO's will be thinking of profit and how to get themselves as rich as possible

Obviously they will think of how to get themselves rich, but they won't shut down SCE, it's too big. They have put too much money into it, even know they have lost alot from PS3.

well not sure what all SCE includes. If it is just hardware I could see them doing that. But they will still make games becuase they make a profit off of games.

So why would anyone care if they no longer make hardware, you still get their games.


and so no bashing of me, i could care less if PS3 lives or dies. i'm just trying to be a realist and not blindly assume everything will be peachy and no changes

none of those are considered "major" except for a few

As a matter of fact, you just proved the opposite... that the gaming division is more then likely to get axed!!

Unless, of course, you think its the Music or Movie division loosing billions??