Quote Originally Posted by Leo_A View Post
I never suggested that you ever said that it absolutely won't be here for Christmas 2013. But you're stating that it's a real possibility that it might not make it.

And that's what I was contesting. Disappearance next year isn't in the cards unless Sony itself dies. And as far as I know despite a rocky road over the past few years, that doesn't seem to be a possibility anytime soon.

But I suppose we could always wake up tomorrow with a shock. That's how Penn Central went 40 years ago after the CEO and board had spent several years trying to hide the truth. I suppose even in today's tightened corporate world that a large company like Sony could be far worse off than they appear to the outside world.
"Rocky Road" is a diplomatic way of putting it. They reported a $6.4 billion dollar loss earlier this year: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/bu...lion.html?_r=0. Sony as a whole is not doing well and they are dabbling with the app market with their PS Mobile initiative. It's smart and a way to continue competing in the mobile market. With Sony continuing to take losses it is a real possibility that they could decide to cut under performing platforms like Vita or let them die slow deaths like PS Move. They'd still have PS Mobile to fall back on, at least.