Microsoft buyout of ailing Sony possible

[cebu_tux]

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Microsoft buyout of ailing Sony possible

From bonafidereviews.com:

If the PS3 is delivered at ₱30,644.49 ($599.99) what does this mean for Sony? Historically gaming machines would have never sold for anything north of ₱15,321.99 ($299.99) (that was until the Xbox360 moved the line to 399.99 in winter of 2005). Just look at the complete failure of the 1990's powerhouse, the 3DO, at the relatively respectable price of ₱20,429.49 ($399.99) (roughly ₱22,983.24 ($449.99) inflation adjusted). With the PS3 now touting the largest price tag for any console in the history of gaming and higher then most mid-low end PC's at this point, does this spell disaster for the ailing hardware giant? Sony hasn't posted net gains in the past three years until 2005 when they posted a depressing ₱29,600 ($580) million dollar profit after posting loss's in the billions for the last three fiscal years.

PS3 production pricing at this point has been laid out to be anywhere from ₱43,400 ($850) - ₱48,830 ($956) per unit, meaning there will be a loss on each machine of approx ₱12,800 ($250) - ₱17,900 ($350) per console sold. If one million consoles sell in the first day of availability Sony will have wiped there entire fiscal gain for all of 2005 in under 24 hours.

Ailing stock prices, poor movie sales and a failing UMD (Sony PSP media) market, might add up to a low-cost buyout in Sony's future. I personally see this happening regardless of the Blu-ray market by 2014. I for one can just see the looks on Sony's main competitors faces at this time, all the gleaming in the world coming from One Microsoft way (the road both Nintendo HQ and MS HQ reside on) as this could turn out to be the largest upset in consumer electronics history.

All this added up, you have to ask yourself. Will the next Playstation you purchase post-PS3 run a Microsoft operating system and have backwards compatibility for PS1 PS2 PS3 Xbox and Xbox360? Putting your rabid love for Sony aside, this doesn't seem as far fetched as it once did, when the Sony name wasn't covered in enough red tape to fill the Grand Canyon.

Note: Peso value equivalents due to my "ViewMyCurrency" Firefox extension. Not really part of quote.

[markyap]

SONY got another big hit 2 days ago when APPLE recalled about 1.8million pcs of apple notebook batteries (all made by sony) also Dell announced a recall of over 3million batteries also made by sony. sony admits the problems of the batteries they made would potentially over heat due to small metalic particles in the battery could cause shortcircuting thus the recall of the batteries were made.

estimates around 500million dollars ang ma lugi ni sony ani...
ouch!!

[dagget]

Fat chance..... microsoft won't be able to buy sony.....

sony is not going down anytime soon.... i think PS3 will really dominate and put pressure on microsoft...

even with those battery recalls....

[tolstoi]

to add up..their Sony Walkman Mp3s was a big bust.

[dagget]

to add up..their Sony Walkman Mp3s was a big bust.

how many companies are trying to beat apple's ipod

even microsoft will release a mp3 player to challenge the ipod.....

[tolstoi]

how many companied are trying to beat apple's ipod

even microsoft will release a mp3 player to challenge the ipod.....

even M$ Zune is bound to be a bust..nothing can beat Apple's charisma dude

[dagget]

even M$ Zune is bound to be a bust..nothing can beat Apple's charisma dude

Correct so when you said sony walkman mp3 was a bust

there are a lot of companies who made mp3 players that were also a bust.... thanks to the ipod

so its not significant for sony walkman mp3 to lose against apple's ipod since everyone else also lost against the ipod.... and now microsoft wants to join the club.....

[obemon]

so its not significant for sony walkman mp3 to lose against apple's ipod since everyone else also lost against the ipod.... and now microsoft wants to join the club.....

C'mon. Don't count them out yet. If there's one company that can rival with Apple, that's Microsoft (unlimited cashflow that will do anything to gain market share). So let's see what they can come up with. Competition is good. It leads to better pricing and better features.

As for Microsoft buying Sony... As much as MS would love to, the federal US govt will probably not allow this. Aren't there laws in the States to prevent two big corporations of merging to regulate business monopolies, preserve competition, and protecting consumers against anticompetitiveness?

[godCode]

mas hit man gihapon ang PS kaysa sa XBOX especially sa Japan...

[chocomai]

it does not matter, as long as good games are continually produced from either platforms.. we will benefit(end users).

but if m$ does buy sony(or parts of sony) i wonder .... what would happen to the PS3, ... hehehe PS3 product activation perhaps? joke joke joke