Not surprised new CEO mentions he plays games. PlayStation is such a huge part of Sony right now that investors want a CEO that knows/feels the market.
Plus and Digital sales yo.
Sony Q3 2017 (Oct-Dec) Earnings | Q3 YOY Gaming 16% revenue increase, 70% profit increase
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Not surprised new CEO mentions he plays games. PlayStation is such a huge part of Sony right now that investors want a CEO that knows/feels the market.
Plus and Digital sales yo.
Kaz Hirai knows exactly what he is doing. Yoshida-san is one of his men. He knows what's up.
Consumer electronics? Let's not do that again. If I remember correctly bloat in that area among others is the reason they were in dire straights 10 years ago.
The electronics division has made just under a billion dollars operating profit for the first nine months of the year. It's on course to break the billion dollar mark for the full year.
I wish they did that too.
Horizon must be near ~5 million now I suppose, but I would like definitive data.
So you suggest that they should kill HE&S division + PS hardware business as well? :)
And that's fine I'm just saying let's not bloat again with pointless shit no one needs
http://fortune.com/2018/02/02/sony-ceo-kaz-hirai-kenichiro-yoshida/
Yoshida was instrumental part of the major cost-cutting measures that cut deep into the previous consumer electronics nature of Sony, selling off Vaio, spinning off the TV division and basically reducing the size of the Sony Mobile business drastically.
So passing GBA/PSP by June 2018 and X360/PS3 by September 2018?
I think doubling down and buying something like SE and/or Capcom would be fantastic for them going forward.
Kaz is leaving at the right time. He turned that sinking ship around. He is still young. He will have offers from other companies in Northern and Southern California. He would be a good fit at Disney once Iger steps down, for example.
I think doubling down and buying something like SE and/or Capcom would be fantastic for them going forward.
Kaz is leaving at the right time. He turned that sinking ship around. He is still young. He will have offers from other companies in Northern and Southern California. He would be a good fit at Disney once Iger steps down, for example.
and Sony still managed to ship another 2.9 million in the Q1 of 2017 and they are only estimating 2.5 million for 2018 Q1. i think they can beat their estimate quite easily. especially if they release few bundles in NA.
Inventory at the end of last year was 3.7 million units.
This year is 2.9 million units.
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From earnings call conference:
We have reduced our forecast for fiscal year sales by 60 billion yen compared with the October forecast to 1 trillion 940 billion yen. This is due to a change in the launch date of a certain software title, as well as an increase in sales of PS4 hardware at promotional prices during the holiday season.
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We have reduced our forecast for fiscal year sales by 60 billion yen compared with the October forecast to 1 trillion 940 billion yen. This is due to a change in the launch date of a certain software title, as well as an increase in sales of PS4 hardware at promotional prices during the holiday season.
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What is with this forum and wanting the big three to purchase major AAA publishers? :/
For Sony, this makes little sense seeing as how they already got the marketing deals and even a few exclusive titles with Square and Capcom. A lot more beneficial to just maintain the good relationship with these publishers than spend millions to buy them.
lol they pretty much confirmed that GOW was supposed to launch in March and not in April :P.
You say that based on what?
As much as I dislike a rather large percentage of their output, I do believe they can improve on that quite easily. The new CEO Vinciquerra seems competent too and they had some good efforts lately.
Well, not after Jumanji 2 made them an absurd amount of money, that's for sure.
Based on the the guys background who was instrumental in getting rid of divisions that was dragging down the company.
I'm pretty sure Hirai wanted to get rid of SPE, but now - after having some hints of success - is not the time to think about that anymore.
They're obviously doing a better job now. Selling it at this point would be pretty dumb.
A laptop brand is not Sony Pictures. Sony Pictures is huge and you can males A LOT of money in the entertainment business if you don't have a dumbass on top of the movie company, which they had. But not any more. The new one is good. And Jumanji is a nice start. Sony Pictures isn't going anywhere.
ha, we will find out soon.on a different topic, I dont think we will see a cooler CEO ever after watching this clip lol.
What?
In case you misunderstood...nobody was talking about the Sony CEO. We were talking about the new CEO of SPE, who is on the helm since May 2017: Tony Vinciquerra.
I wouldn't to worry about it as there is high possibilities that Kaz will remain for a long time in Sony