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Except none of that actually happened. And it isn't happening. Nobody buys Sony hardware. Nobody buys their phones, or audio equipment. Samsung is eating their lunch in the tv market, and that market is contracting quickly as more people watch TV on the computers, phones, iPads and the like, with the corona virus making even mighty Samsung cautious. The camera industry, the one consumer electronics industry they actually do well in, is withering away, a years long ongoing trend, with 2019, the year before the pandemic, being the worst year on record for the industry. That year, Sony were the only one of the Japanese companies to even post a profit in the sector, and that was largely due to the fact that Sony had a dominant position in the Smartphone image sensor market, not because they sold more cameras. The very next year, Sony still came in second to Canon when it came to actual camera sales. Its only because Sony does well in mirrorless sales that they do any business there at all. Sony's plan to integrate their hardware with their other businesses is dead in the water because their hardware doesn't sell. No wonder they spun off all their consumer electronics businesses into a separate subsidiary.
As for media formats, the media format wars are over. Sony introduced the winner of the last major format war in the Blu-ray, but it hardly mattered. By then, digital was king, and nobody was buying disks.
Their music business is highly susceptible to piracy, and they don't have their own market like iTunes to dominate that segment.
Their film business was a money pit for almost its entire existence. It only started doing well in recent years thanks to that Jumanji movie (which was better than it had any right to be) and Enter the Spiderverse, but it still can't really compete on a level playing field with the likes of Disney or Warner Bros., not even getting into the havoc the pandemic has played on the industry.
Sony's one success is in video games, where they dominated this past generation, but are now getting the destroyed by the Switch, while the pandemic slows their production.
Market penetration of video games into the Chinese market is still limited and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. The only games doing well their are free play phone games and the like. Japanese companies almost certainly do care about censorship, because they know that the American and Japanese audiences don't like it, hence why many go out of their way make Switch versions and openly market them as uncensored.
Not sure what deal your talking about. Also Falcom is an independent developer who are also releasing all their newest games on both PC and Switch. As far as I know, they get no special backing from Sony, and are willing to follow the money and go to Switch and PC, so clearly they aren't showing favoritism to Sony.
I never said that the info I quoted was new. I specifically pointed out that it looked at a specific historical period (Sony from 2002 to 2012), so your statement is completely pointless. Also, nothing in that article is inaccurate as far as factual information goes. All of it, from the quotes from the executives to the financial information is verifiable, and none of it has anything to do with what ever bullshit Yoshida has shoved up the investors (and yours, apparently) asses.
And here you are basically proving the article's point, and my point exactly.
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