Sony shares slide most in four years

You think 10% is bad now wait to see if Sony is going to announce they are blocking used games on PS4 next week.

Well, the reason no one buy PS vita because you charge 59 bucks for 16 GB. Rip off your customer was never a good idea. This is not 2006 anymore, every thing is cheaper now. Sony need to adapt and make more affordable product.

Sony is like almost all other japanese companies, they are great at copying others, but have no ability to create. We are seeing this also with the slow collapse of nintendo and many other japanese companies. japanese games suck pretty hard anymore. They peaked in the 90s. 

For better or worse, corporations like EA, Activision, and Rockstar have all but killed japanese games.

This is what happens when you let hardware sit for seven years.

You're doing it wrong.

Haha Sony. Me so sorry u no good company anymore. Sayonara sucka! 

Sales are sliding because there is a recession. Times are tight and gaming isn't a priority. Secondly, ripping off consumers doesn't endear a company to it's customers. If more high quality, bug free games get released then sales will pick up.

I wonder (however unlikely it is) if the PS4 will beat the sales figure of the PS2. The PS3 was late to the game 6 years ago, so I wonder what effects this next-gen will bring.

It's interesting when you think about it, but the sales for the PS3 are only 5 million less than the 360 which stands at something like 75 million. The PS2, although it has a nine year sale figure, has sold still more than 150 million units - more than the two put together.

you pay extortionate prices for four letters on their products, the parts inside are the same, just tested more thoroughly.

Sony has to change their whole attitude. They continue to sell their electronics (tv's, home theaters ect...) at a premium price for not so premium quality. There's many other manufacturers, namely Samsung & LG, that sell BETTER products for much less than Sony. Wake up, Sony!! It's not 1990 anymore and you don't have the best tv on the block. 

But old school Japanese business people are extremely stubborn and stuck in their ways. This outdated thinking is whats losing them money. I don't know how much longer they can pretend that they're a top-shelf name. The public isn't buying your crap anymore because they feel like they've been ripped off.

For anyone who thinks Sony wont be around much longer,

http://www.gamespot.com/features/who-are-the-biggest-players-in-the-industry-6387414/

Sony, bigger than Disney, bigger than Microsoft.

Sony needs software unique to the PS. But the PS Vita was a mistake. The lack of games for the PSP really turned off gamers from its handhold hardware market. I agree with billabowski that Sony needs to innovate and design the PS4 to be developer friendly.

I don't see Sony being around in the next decade. Not even PS4 will save them because they've taken such a hit developing it. The past 13 years Sony hasn't introduced anything other companies don't already have, and cheaper. No innovation = lights out. 

"Sony said it saw the "slow penetration" of the PS Vita as an ongoing issue..."

That's what she said.

The day gaming started to be controlled by money-hungry shareholders who know a lot about making money but nothing about videogames, was the day gaming was doomed.

They expect a £200 handheld console with insanely overpriced accessories to do well, honestly how many people did they think would invest in that especially since the Vita doesn't have the strongest library of games.

Of course it will be live-streamed. Even I farting is live-streamed.

Sony should make only four things. 

1. Consoles/Games

2. Cameras 

3.TVs (Cut the damn price though) 

4. Software 

All the other stuff like phones, PCs and etc... Cut that part, or make it better and more affordable.

Playstation All Stars, Sly Cooper, the entire Vita platform: Sony is just releasing stuff to die. They don't market any of it and, in the case of the vita, don't release any damn games for it! I hope that money went into R&D for the next gen systems. Otherwise, Sony is boned.

Oh, further proof that they're a failure and their hardware and games suck and they're trapped by their own IP and lack of innovation and their system is just a toy and not for hardcore gamers and they should just give up and, and, and...

Oh wait... This isn't Nintendo and I'm not Tom Mc Shea... Never mind. Carry on...

Could be the rumor of them blocking used games aswell. People who buy and shortsell stocks tend to be extremely paranoid, and it makes sense since I'm willing to bet more than alot of people won't buy if it blocks them.

Im really glad in a way becuase their PS VITA selling tactics sucked arse with their propriety memory cards! I am a fan of Sony but could not justify and support the PS VITA for this. I hope they have learnt they cant take the piss out of their customer base. Nintendo don't do this.