Sony’s profit down 86% but its costly mobile business has been shored up

>Sony’s profit down 86% but its costly mobile business has been shored up

>Sony’s PlayStation business, its most notable performer, saw sales decline by 11 percent

>techcrunch.com/2016/11/01/sony-q2-2016/

Is the cancer starting to die Sup Forums? is it time to celebrate?

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>Born too late to explore the new world
>Born too early to explore the cosmos
>Born to see the rise of Xbox

>Sony’s PlayStation business, its most notable performer, saw sales decline by 11 percent year-on-year primarily due to currency changes.

>Sony’s profit dropped 86 percent year-on-year as the strong performance of the Japanese Yen, fallout from the Kumamoto earthquake and company restructuring weighed on its Q2 2016 earnings.

>Bu, bu, teh Yen.

Hey, Denial is the first stage of grief. Remember nothing will last forever. When Sony gets its shit pushed in and die, I shall throw a party.

Don't like, one in ten people in the US/Japan own a PS4 now? Pretty much everyone who would ever buy one has one.

You'd expect sales to start to go down, you've saturated the market.

Shhhhh. V has no concept of supply and demand or economics.

Its from your own fucking source you retard

Yes yes we get it, Sony is dying and there won't be a PS4

PS2 sold over 144 million. The PS4 wont even go near that. When Microsoft/Nintendo get their shit together and they are, Sony will be up shit's creek, and it will be good riddance.

>Sony’s profit down 86%

At first I thought you were shit posting but it appears you are right.

That's bad news right here.

They are still dying, its the gaming division that's keeping that cesspool afloat, and when that dies.....

If you legit think gaming would be better off without Playstation you're one delusional fuck.

>Sony is done!
for the..4th?5th time?I'm sure this time it's different!

>still the most widely sold console in generations with the largest install base
>profits going down does not mean the company has failed to turn a profit
(Compare this to Nintendo who are floating on earlier profits due to the WiiU failure)
>Sony continuing to downsize the costly and innefficient secondary businesses as they've been doing for years
I wonder if Sup Forums is actually business illiterate or just pretends to be for the sake of le dank meemees

Gaming would be 100% better without the Sony cancer. No more LGBT/queer games, no more weeaboo shit, no more hentai games masquerading as fighters and no more cinematic B rated movies.

That will teach the biggest SJW game and movie company to not be so shit. How about that Ghostbusters?

Are they even making money out of the console sales? I know several people who own PS3s and use them as ornaments or blu-ray players, shitty attachment rate.

>Movie games
>Good

Pick one.

And Bloodborne would finally come to PC :^)

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>It is not fair that we are left out. You have betrayed us after releasing your last two games on PC.

Does Sony still make PCs, batteries, etc.? Its just a matter of time...

I need to update this

>when that dies
Yeah, keyword "when"
Trimming the fat off the useless side offices actually makes it EASIER for the videogames branch to do its job. You seem to think Sony is just falling apart and not deliberately downsizing, which suggests that you're either ignorant or baiting.

The business everyone really needs to worry about is Konami now that casinos are being legalized

Nintendo is the new SEGA and the Switch is their dreamcast.

>11 percent

Oh, no, they're making slightly fewer millions than they were before. It is clearly the end for them...

1 delusional fuck.
2 delusional fucks.

Let's take this gen for example. You would be sitting here with eithe Kinectbox or WiiU (with most likely no Switch on the horizon).
You would also not be able to share your games with your friends on Xbone and all that other jazz.

I could go on and on, but the simple fact that you don't realize that the very presence of Playstation makes Microsoft and Nintendo push themselves more which in turn benefits the players marks you either as underage or a retard. Either way, you're delusional fanboy.

>3rd party developers subscribe to feminist nonsense
What relation does this have with Sony, again? Sony did not develop the Uncharted series.

iirc Sony's tech businesses outside of vidya and a few other niches (music for one) never took off, and I believe their largest abd most profitable division is actually insurance or something. Mind clarifying your point?

But that's not the same filename? I just downloaded off here you paranoid autist.

In all seriousness, if Sony did go belly up wouldn't the Playstation division break off and become an independent company?

if I'm being stupid, sorry I'm stupid

>Souls games
Please. only DeS and DaS1 were passable.

Look up the 5 stages of grief.

>3rd party


>the studio was acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2001
>Type
Subsidiary of Sony Interactive Entertainment

Try not to be so retarded next time when you're defending your cucked company.

>When Microsoft/Nintendo get their shit together and they are

Funny I've been waiting fucking forever for this to happen

Probably the Playstation division would be liquidated and sold off to clear debts and we'd end up with the same tech run by different people under a different name. I don't think the current business structure would allow for Playstation to remain afloat independently - assuming some ridiculous doomsday financial collapse like the retards itt seem convinced of.

Sonygger are finnish

>Playstation division break off and become an independent company?

No, because it will be the Playstation division dying off that kills off Sony for good.

Isn't that just steam though?

I don't particularly have any sort of stake in console wars as I'm an idort but one group dying will not eradicate such things.

they are Japanese

If you are NOT a nigger, SJW, weeaboo or a faggot and you are defending Sony..... Does not compute.

Nigga what the fuck are you smoking? Most great games were/are from Japan. Full stop, faggot. I'm not even a weeaboo and I admit this. Without them you'll just have Nintendo/Microsoft.

You'll still have Nintendo, sure. But you know their target audience are children.
Microsoft? Don't make me laugh.

And you don't want Japs making games for PC because they are retarded when it comes to that.

>selling your most profitable asset
Why would any company do this

Same interview
Same bait for (You)'s, well dottylines now

Funny, I've never owned an Uncharted game, it just seems like a huge leap in logic to transfer your criticism of a specific individual's political values onto the entire company they work under despite that parent company being comprised largely of people from a completely separate ethnic and political background.
Almost like that idea makes no sense and you're cherrypicking retarded bullshit

Yes and they are finnish

You're arguing with juvenile xbox/nintendo/pc fanboys, common sense doesn't apply to them.

if they go bankrupt and have to sell off everything they don't have a choice, user


it's called a hypothetical

To clear debts/bankruptcy you mongoloid

All I could find were your first couple of birthdays.

Yeah but then you start with the least profitable divisions...

of course op is a Sup Forumstard

>calls others juvenile
>doesn't understand the most basic concept of debt
L E L

The amount of people I've seen with Vaio laptops is too much. In other words, a lot. Sony makes shitty PCs but they definitely sell a lot of them.

do you know how bankruptcy works?

you need to be 18 to post here

I have never seen a Vaio out in the wild, only in Sony movies themselves

Literally, figuratively and unironically me waiting for Sony to die XD

No because i haven't run mine into one like you clearly have

>Gets btfo with facts

>Still deflects to protect his company

Pathetic.

Nah man, PC doesn't give a fuck about consoles - they just like to troll all sides. Nintendo fans are chill - it's just Xbots trying to give us Nintendo fans a bad rap. DEATH TO ALL XBOTS!

Vaio isn't a part of Sony.

What is with Sup Forums's complete and utter obsession with Sony, anyway?

If you declare bankruptcy you have to sell off everything with some loophole legal exceptions. This gets more complicated for a business entity but if overnight Sony had a major financial crash there would be a restructuring (read: massive layoffs/firings to save money in the interrim) and talks of either declaring bankruptcy to absolve debts or else accepting a buyout from another company (most likely Nintendo or an interested outside party like Apple).
Between your general ignorance of business and your dumbass ellipses I'm starting to think you may actually be a 12 year old

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Good! The Dreamcast was fucking great. I don't even care if Nintendo dies as long as I get another Skies of Arcadia and Phantasy Star Online.

Oh shit the bubble burst? What is Sony going to do now to combat bankruptcy that they were teetering on the edge of for the past decade?

>I don't know but you suck!

nigga you just went full retarded

NO NO PEOPLE

WE SHITPOST ABOUT NINTENDO! SHITPOSTING ABOUT SONY IS NOT, I REPEAT NOT OKAY!

WE SAY NINTENDO IS DOOMED, NOT SONY REEEE

edit: thanks for teh gold XD

Success breeds jealousy

What part of that post was deflection? I directly address the ridiculous anti-logic of your claim.
Yes, its a fact that the Uncharted devs are paid by Sony but that doesn't establish a shared political agenda you twat

You don't understand how to run a business.

Jesus fuck.

Insecurity.

That's odd. I have also seen Sony batteries and that was a mindfuck for me. Mind you they came in a Sony camera. But yeah, their laptops are popular in Canada. I guess they do hinge design well enough which is a huge failing in most laptops these days.

They grew up with Crash and Spyro as their first game.

Hey, I was waiting patiently for Sony's PC division to die off. (they made shitty PCs) and I'm still alive.

>doesn't establish a shared political agenda

>He forgot about Ghostbusters

Or was that not Sony also?

Fucking kek sonyggers don't even know how businesses are run, sony is finished

>You don't understand how to run a business.
That's a bold claim considering you've openly admitted to knowing jack shit about it yourself

>q2

>What is with Sup Forums's complete and utter obsession with Sony, anyway?

See A strong line up of video games triggers people who don't own the platform they're going on.

Holy shit, you're right. I don't remember hearing about this but I've always known it as Sony Vaio. You learn something new every day, I guess.

>No more LGBT/queer games
pc gaming literally invented that.

>no more weeaboo shit
and that.

>no more hentai games masquerading as fighters
and that.

>and no more cinematic B rated movies.
okay, you are correct here.

all of those things will still exist, and just move back to pc. nothing will be accomplished, it will just be played on a different box.

>An obvious flame war topic designed to piss people off!

Wooow you don't fucking say?

Pc gaming is the future. The pc company should buy all these games after sony files for bankruptcy

Ghostbusters was also produced by people paid by Sony, yes.
Those people are also capable of their own agency independent of what Sony theoretically tells them to do, so that is again not evidence of a shared political agenda between the parent and child company. If anything it's evidence that the Uncharted devs and Ghostbusters producers are pandering fuckwits, but you've failed to provide anything but guilt by association at this point.

huh alright, in the states it's mostly apple products for college kids and just non-descript ones for everybody else

I hope Sony goes in the red, so my PS4 can stop sucking so much ass. I hope you guys are doing the right thing and not resubscribing your PS+ until Sony either makes online free or offers better IGC games like they did on PS3.

>another pcucks trying to start shit thread
Reminder that is shit because of pcucks ruining everything, other fanbases are shit but they respect the other fanbase and stick in their own threads.

They literally have nothing to fall back on. Their handhelds are dead and the VR is stillborn. Sony is circling the toilet right now.

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Explain how removing a system that generates revenue and helps fund the company is going to increase Sony's profit, please

playstation vita aesthetic

>core consoles literally the best selling systems of their type, ever
>EVERYONE PANIC THE SHITA IS DEAD AND VR ISN'T GOOD YET
lul

I have owned all PS's, xbox 360, most nintendo systems, nintendo handhelds and sony

Competition is good, if Sony were to go down, then it would just be FPS's on xbox's, and mario/zelda on nintendo (if they could outlast going down before sony)

I WANT Sony and MS to keep the competition going, and Nintendo to keep on chugging on. It's better for gamers.

It lowers prices. We actually need more consoles like back in the 80's and 90's. It's stupid there's only really 3 choices instead of 5-8 consoles no matter how exotic and expensive they are like the neo geo back in the day.

>sales down 11%
It's all downhill baby

>I hope you guys are doing the right thing and not resubscribing your PS+
paid up through July '19

You're not making a profit if people aren't buying what you're selling either..

Jesus Christ, you're the biggest fucking tool ever.

>people aren't buy
>60billion installbase and growing expected to btfo of the ps2

Can you even imagine Microsoft leading this industry? I wouldn't wish such hell on my worst enemy.

It would literally be Gears Of Dude 8 and TV TV TV.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

>When Microsoft/Nintendo get their shit together
I don'y know about Nintendo, but this isn't happening with Microsoft if they continue to try and balance the xbox one and PC.

Nintendo's sales are down much further than 11% and they're still fine because they have bank forever
You seem to think that falling 11% means they're under their margins but that's nkt the case at all, the PS4 had explosive sales early in the console generation and now that 2/3rds of the planet has one, Sony has run out of people to sell them to and the sales are slowing down.
It's almost like every console has had the same, or similar sales declines later in the generation.

I live in Japan and get paid in yen.

I used to buy shit from America, but now I can't because it rapes my wallet.

I doubt any Japanese company is doing well. Once TPP comes out their economy will be fucked.

can you Nintendo fanboy labeling every fail system you have has the new dreamcast because it's not.