It’s funny how times change. Twenty years ago, the PlayStation was a skunkworks product that a renegade faction within Sony had just fought to get released. Now here we are in 2015, and Sony CEO Kaz Hirai — a former boss of the PlayStation division — has announced that the company is essentially going to stop trying to grow its consumer electronics businesses beside the PlayStation 4. The PlayStation isn’t only Sony’s last great product; it might as well be Sony’s only product.
Considering that Sony has a couple other division that make more profit, i.e. Movies, Insurance, solid sate devices, this article doesn't make any sense.
Sony may soon run out of choices. They have already had to cancel their dividends, and they need to decide what they are staying in or getting out of, if they wish to remain viable.
They could sell Playstation's IP (perhaps) to Nintendo or MS, but that is a less likely scenario. If they are staying with Playstation they need to seriously look at selling other divisions including movies, insurance and/or solid state devices to fund growth in areas they decide they want to concentrate on.
I think it is a foregone conclusion they should be out of mobile.
>The Verge
Pretty sure people should do almost the opposite of what they say at almost any given time.
EDIT: "Sony CEO Kaz Hirai — a former boss of the PlayStation division — has announced that the company is essentially going to stop trying to grow its consumer electronics businesses beside the PlayStation 4."
...are they reading the same reports as everyone else?
If Sony only had the Playstation brand, they'd be bankrupt in under 2 years.
The author was huffing paint while writing this article.