Sony Increase More Investment Into Streaming Entertainment of Playstation Gaming!

As you May have heard or Have seen the News on Sony's Problems with Profit Generation with the recent projected sales Shortage in the mobile section.

Example:

Sony Tumbles as $2.1 Billion Loss Limits Hirai’s Options

When Hirai took over as CEO in 2012, he said Sony’s revival would be driven by games, imaging products and mobile devices. Since then, the company has announced job cuts and a restructuring to make TV manufacturing a separate unit. Hirai has trimmed the TV product lineup to focus on larger-screen models.

“It’s good to see Sony kitchen-sinking it ahead of what should be a dramatic rebound in its profits next FY,” Amir Anvarzadeh, a manager of Japanese equity sales at BGC Partners Inc. in Singapore, said in an e-mail. “We see the impairment charge as yet another negative now out of the way.”

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Now saying Sony has "Loss Limits Hirai’s Options" while by default your Options always has Limits, what Kaz already has stated what Sony and the Board Of Directors intends to do.

A:

Sony is taking a 180 billion-yen impairment charge because it expects less cash from the smartphone business, according to a company statement. It’s cutting about 1,000 workers from the 7,100-person unit and reducing the number of mid-range models as Chinese manufacturers gain global market share, Hirai said in a briefing.

B:

Hirai said his “No. 1 responsibility” is to reinstate the dividend.

Again By Cutting the number of smartphone's production Models of the Mid Tier and Reduction of Workers. Sony's Board Has decided by the Trend in the market to not Concentrate on increasing Market Share and in effect Mind Share and go more to Generating Profit and Return for Investors.

That will mean a reduction in over all Market share no doubt, and further erode the level of Mind share for Sony in Mobile Phone's. But on the same token, it will be what they do sale will be with Profit and return in Mind.

So what Option Does Sony Really Have?

How about Playstation even Further
You could even call it Sony Going 3RD Party (for legacy game's only)!

To off set this Sony's Kaz and Board has also decided to also:

Sony Plans to Turn Game Division into Hub
Sony to Develop Service to Stream Games onto Phones, Tablets, Other Devices

"Mr. House said Sony also intended to develop a service to stream videogames onto smartphones, tablets and other devices from a range of manufacturers other than Sony."

Again:

"A streaming-based approach needs to have a very wide funnel of devices, and that inherently means a broad- and manufacturer-agnostic approach," said Mr. House, who was attending the Tokyo Game Show in this Tokyo suburb."

an analyst at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Said this:

"Sony has the potential to make the game console market its exclusive territory," said Eiichi Katayama"

Sony hopes to leverage its game software to prop up its struggling smartphones. At a recent trade show in Berlin, Sony said its latest smartphone, the Xperia Z3, would come with a feature allowing users to play PlayStation 4 games remotely on the smartphone, if connected to Wi-Fi.

Mr. Katayama, the Bank of America/Merrill Lynch analyst, was cautious about how far the PlayStation 4 could reverse Sony's fortunes. "Games will no doubt be another source of stable earnings, but for a company with such diversified income streams as Sony, it would be wrong to portray games as a business that could support the company alone," he said.

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"but for a company with such diversified income streams as Sony, it would be wrong to portray games as a business that could support the company alone," he said."

See this statement right here:
The blunt truth is Sony is reinvesting "More Into Playstation" Less into other part's of its Electronics business's

The point is, if Sony is increasing its Investment into More of Gaming, does that not in of itself make Sony more of a Game and entertainment Company and less of An Electronics company?

The analyst over @ Bloomberg even stated Sony should take a page out of Panasonics Book..right?

The Fact That Kaz is Looking to Stream Playstation Games past even having to own a Playstation @ all means that may not be new ip or just released Games, but legacy and Back Archived Games of the PS1, PS2 and even the PS3 content could very well net Sony Quite a lump of Change.

Some May now Question does that make the idea of Buying a "Playstation" Less Viable?

Well For Some Gamer's and Consumer's that may in effect be true, but that does not mean that :

A) Sony will not be making dedicted Playstation Gaming console systems, because you will still need some sort of device to play the games on, why not still be a playstation?

B) This also for streaming , does not mean that it will be New iP or in effect New Console games that are released for the current playstation Game Console , what ever that system is or may be.