Sony report reveals mobile business is in decline, persisting PS5 supply issues
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- Sgt. Sizzles
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- 02 Feb 2022
If only they found a way to let people play mobile legends or dota 2 on PS. This is still useless.
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- Anonymous
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- 02 Feb 2022
Anonymous, 02 Feb 2022Not sure what you're trying to say. If you mean the pr... moreSurely, they could've found a way to minimize scalping but like Nvidia and AMD, they turned a blind eye. Why entertain a few gamers when clients that can buy truckloads of ps5 and plane-loads of gpus are shwoering you with cash?
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- 02 Feb 2022
Anonymous, 02 Feb 2022I find it a bit odd that we're suddenly in such shorta... moreYou obviously don't understand how the supply chain works. You mostly answered your own question in your comment: Jobs. You said people would have been buying more cars/consoles/phones/etc before the pandemic because they had jobs. This is not untrue, however, you have to have people work jobs in order to produce the stuff that people are buying. That's why there wasn't a shortage before the pandemic. During the pandemic, workforce cuts and pauses were MASSIVE. This massive lack of work translates to a massive lack of product to sell.
There are some other factors involved here, but the jobs situation is a huge one.
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- 02 Feb 2022
Sony's declining mobile business isn't surprising. They always overpriced their phones for at least a decade when the name Ericsson stopped being attached to their phones. It's their PS5 sales that's a bit surprising.
Covid really affected production but it could be also be just less interest for home consoles. The Xbox S/X is selling nearly as many as PS5s but those are record numbers for them and disappointing sales for PS5. Xbox is neck and neck with PS this gen.
Personally, I'm just waiting when PS5 reaches down to $300 levels. I got my PS4 from an LG G5 / Sprint deal that gave me $100 off it at Best Buy. So my $200 PS4 purchase from 5 years ago still looks like a bargain as I see PS4 prices going up because the PS5 shortages.
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- Anonymous
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- 02 Feb 2022
What a surprise :))
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- Jimbob
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- 02 Feb 2022
They just keep making the same phones with slight changes & high prices.. always the same 21;9 screen, same screen size why not do something different..
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- 02 Feb 2022
hello lg
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- Mikele
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- 02 Feb 2022
Anonymous, 02 Feb 2022I really would love to buy one of their Xperia 5 iii phones... moreAbsolutely and this is the reality for their mobile business failure. Mobile business is more expanded in China where there's human resources and capacity compares to Japan.
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- 02 Feb 2022
Anonymous, 02 Feb 2022I really would love to buy one of their Xperia 5 iii phones... moreWhy?
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- 02 Feb 2022
The only Sony product I really liked is the sony's XB series Bluetooth speakers. They are great.. better than JBL.. but phones, TVs.. cameras.. I don't know why they charge a premium.. In my country a 4k sony OLED TV is 150% the cost of a LG TV.. with much inferior specs.. not to mention they take ages to launch the next model.. coming to their smartphones... I have used their 2 smartphones and they were Xperia tipo and xperia ZR(mainly because of their IP rated ADverts) and I never ever dared to touch their phones again. They were over priced and a total loss. I am sure if they hire a mid level phone enthusiast like me.. They can make better phones in no time
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- 02 Feb 2022
kek, 02 Feb 2022To prevent monopolies. All those Chinese brands are basical... moreSony Mobile failed because the company over price their phones. Chinese companies or government has never been responsible for their failure rather they brought competitions to the business. Look at Xiaomi or Oppo what they have brought to mobile business and I'm expecting Sony to raise above what they are doing on their mobile section to be competitive among others
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- Anonymous
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- 02 Feb 2022
Had Z3. It was so good that I kept it like a baby. No any single scratch. Sony was better than Samsung. Not anymore. Now Samsung is much better than others. It isn't laggy anymore. But I like Sony products. My Sony headphones work fine. Will buy again.
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- 02 Feb 2022
I really would love to buy one of their Xperia 5 iii phones but it is just NOT worth the $1,000 asking price at all
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- 02 Feb 2022
wadia13, 02 Feb 2022I get the desire to prevent the Chinese brands from being a... moreHe just said that he didn't expect anyone in here to understand this. By the way, no, it's not about preventing monopoly. People have their preferences. It's that simple. No need to overcomplicate things.
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- 02 Feb 2022
Shui8, 02 Feb 2022Market understanding. I dont even know which type of con... moreIn my opinion, the biggest problem is that Sony releases their phones too late. The Xperia Pro-I was released in December last year, and the S22 will be released soon. If the Xperia Pro-I II will be released in March 2022, it can be somewhat competitive, but it's not going to happen. Sony needs to fix this ASAP.
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kek, 02 Feb 2022To prevent monopolies. All those Chinese brands are basical... moreI get the desire to prevent the Chinese brands from being a monopoly. If that's the main issue, then all the fanboys of non-Chinese brands should be one big happy family. But I don't see that either. I don't see Apple fanboys & Samsung fanboys & Sony fanboys getting along with each other at all.
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- 02 Feb 2022
RealLifePhones, 02 Feb 2022It's time for Sony to finally quit the smartphone indu... moreActual Sony mobile division turned Profitable this year,
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- 02 Feb 2022
wadia13, 02 Feb 2022Yes, but why are people so emotionally invested in any spec... moreTo prevent monopolies. All those Chinese brands are basically 1 monster driven by 1 country (and a oppresive one at that, too).
Aside from them, you only have Apple (USA), Samsung (South Korea), and a few other small players like Asus (Taiwan), Sony (Japan), HTC (Taiwan, but almost dead) and Google (USA).
Losing LG, even with their slow updates policy, was a big hit to the market equilibrium and options.
But I dont expect anyone in here to understand or look into that, since people are more into the mindset of "Save money today, worry not about tomorrow".
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- Anonymous
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- 02 Feb 2022
IpsDisplay, 02 Feb 2022Lmao
I remember many of the Sony fans saying in the com... moreFunny the fact BBK only mentions amount of devices sold, but never how much money earned with sales.