Why Sony Should Ditch Everything But the PlayStation

An anonymous reader writes: A couple weeks ago, we were surprised by news that Sony was spinning off its game development studio. More recently, the company has been thinking about exiting both the mobile phone market and the TV market. An opinion piece suggests Sony shouldn't stop there, focusing more on the its PlayStation division and a few other areas — and giving up on the rest. "Continuing to concentrate on phones and other products actually makes the PlayStation experience worse for most people. Take the PS4's ability to stream games to mobile devices — a killer feature needlessly limited to the PS Vita and Sony's Xperia Android line. Why can't I play Destiny on my iPad when the TV's occupied? The iOS PlayStation app, meanwhile, is a confusing mess that hasn't even been updated for the iPhone 6. These sound like minor points, but imagine what Sony could do if everyone at the company were focused on making its most important product as good as possible. As Microsoft is learning with its recent iOS and Android experiments, you have to serve the customers where they already are."

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Re:Exiting...Giving up...Spinning off

[hairyfeet]

The previous CEO burnt all the bridges and it will take the better part of a decade to rebuild them, if they ever can.

Say what you will about Sony but in the 80s and 90s you want a damned good cutting edge piece of gear that will easily last the better part of a decade if not longer? Then YOU BOUGHT SONY because everything from the solder to the picture tubes was the best quality you could get, just well built through and through. Then they got arrogant, spread the company too thin, and every time profits didn't hit what wall street wanted? Well just drop the quality without dropping the price and there ya go! It didn't take too many failed units before folks got wise to that shit and now everybody knows you buy Sony? What you get is a Vizio with a higher price tag.

So no shit they are thinking of bailing, like so many companies from IBM to Seagate they sold out the quality of the brand for short term gains, now its time to pay the check.