SONY woes...

[London Geezer]

What's with the loom and doom?!

Sony ain't going nowhere, the Bravia LCDs are the best selling LCDs these days, which, considering they cost a lot more than the competition, is quite amazing. And they are fabulous sets.

Their Playstation business is doing great liek it always has. Obviously it's slowing down, but it's only normal when PS2 is 6 years old and everyone's getting ready for the next technological jump (PS3). PSP is doing fantastically well in Europe, and saying it is "failing" in Japan would be really pushing it. Still, this is considering it costs quite a bit more than DS, and that DS is a Nintendo handheld which is bound to sell like hotcakes. Amazingly, PSP in Europe/UK is selling just as much (or more?) than the "established" Nintendo product.

Really, all this loom and doom crap needs to end.

 

[Druga Runda]

Sony is far from doom but they are in "gloom" territory as they lost focus recently, and they need to reorganize. IMO the biggest long term mistake was going into Movie/Music publishing. While it makes money it is indeed in contrast to their core technology business and they already paid dearly the fee to Apple, and only they know how is it affecting the company to have competition and different philosophies within. To me they are looking more like a bloated US tech company (IBM or HP) than the technological brilliance focused Japaneze company which they used to be.

They will now be making strategic alliances and keep on finding the ways of how to get to profitability, or increase it etc, what to cut and what not, but the torch is now held by Samsung and Sony are merely following up in quite a few sectors at the moment. They are huge, so size and brand helps a lot, but gloom is here. Doom - that will happen very very hard (creative accounting is needed for that one, or decades of sub-par performance, which is not the case now, and is hard to imagine to ever be the case).

Overall Sony "golden age" is over but now they will get into the dull "stable" state and continue from there "a little up a little down" as most of the estabilished giants. Or perhaps they are there already.

 

[pixelbox]

Sony is far from doom but they are in "gloom" territory as they lost focus recently, and they need to reorganize. IMO the biggest long term mistake was going into Movie/Music publishing. While it makes money it is indeed in contrast to their core technology business and they already paid dearly the fee to Apple, and only they know how is it affecting the company to have competition and different philosophies within. To me they are looking more like a bloated US tech company (IBM or HP) than the technological brilliance focused Japaneze company which they used to be.

They will now be making strategic alliances and keep on finding the ways of how to get to profitability, or increase it etc, what to cut and what not, but the torch is now held by Samsung and Sony are merely following up in quite a few sectors at the moment. They are huge, so size and brand helps a lot, but gloom is here. Doom - that will happen very very hard (creative accounting is needed for that one, or decades of sub-par performance, which is not the case now, and is hard to imagine to ever be the case).

Overall Sony "golden age" is over but now they will get into the dull "stable" state and continue from there "a little up a little down" as most of the estabilished giants. Or perhaps they are there already.

The torch being held by Samsung? Ha! Samsung will never have the style or status as Sony. Sony still is the technological brilliance it was. I mean look at psp and blu-ray. Sony still has it's status, they just need to focus more on innovative things like psp and blu-ray. There is no technological brilliance in ipods or the DS's/ gameboys but they sell. Why? They are new trends and or well known names. Sooner or later well known names crash(walkman,nintendo,ect) because they are redundant. People see new and flock to them leaving the old for the new until the new is old. Great sells = fresh ideas. All sony needs to do is keep it fresh, easy, and advertise.