Let’s just say that (not so hypothetically) you managed to score a place at a roundtable with Sony’s top, top brass. We’re talking Chairman, CEO and President of Sony Corporation, Sir Howard Stringer; President and Group CEO of Playstation Kaz Hirai; Phil Molyneux, President and COO of Sony Electronics and Hiroshi Yoshioka, President of Consumer, Professional and Devices Group at Sony Corporation. What would you ask them?
Obviously, Sony are planning some big announcements for CES this year. They’d have to, considering they’ve brought me over here to cover the event, and they’re offering me a place at an exclusive roundtable with Sony’s top brass. But in the leadup to their keynote tomorrow (Vegas time), tell me – what would you ask these high ranking Sony powerhouses?
Matrix fan
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 12:01 PMI understand if something doesn’t make money, you can’t support it.. And I’m not 100% sure who ended up with this, be it SOE or Warner Brothers.. But..
My question to SOE would be, in the instance of ‘The Matrix Online’ MMO, where the plug has been pulled, and the game has effectively gone to waste, what harm could come from releasing this games server side software (or making it open source), so people whom enjoyed the game could still play? Existing in-game Ads systems could remain as a source of revenue, and limits, by both licensing agreements and hardware constraints would prevent people from capitalising from the free software..
Is there any reason why this could not be done?
Atomsk
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 12:03 PMI’d like to know what mistakes Sony has learnt from over past few years, in a very general way. Do they feel the Sony specific memory cards might have been marketed better, or maybe not at all?
Also, I’d like to know what they think about electronic devices sometimes using high level components/parts from other (even rival) companies, do they think this is irrelivant in the grand scale of the consumers ‘Sony’ experience, or does it perhapse dilute the experience by relying on another manufacturers products?
matt
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 12:05 PMwhy does your company have so many CEOs…
James Howland
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 1:00 PMSony has enough power to move in the direction of Apple’s successful closed ecosystem model with its Vaio PC, Bravia TV, Walkman MP3 etc tied together.
Is there any reason why they haven’t gone down this path?
matt
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 5:35 PMplease… don’t give them ideas…
also, while they don’t lock you in with a stupid closed eco system, they are, in fact, quite good at the product integration stuff. for instance, the ps3 and psp integrate, and I believe at least one of the latter integrates with the vaio PCs as well.
Josh
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 11:13 PMI would toss my new led sony tv in the bin out of spite..
Oh and did u jst say walkman?
Sunny Kalsi
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 1:01 PMIs the PS3 turning a profit yet?
Yasser
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 1:42 PMIs Kaz going to be the next CEO.
c1ockwork
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 1:46 PMIs there a reason they have so much obvious contempt for the consumers of their products?
fijiwater
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 3:26 PMWhen do OLED TV’s come in at affordable prices for the now generally accepted common size of 42″?
fred
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 4:30 PMDo you know of any good random number generators?
James Mac
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 5:08 PMHow’s 3d working out for you?
Scott Heald
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 5:17 PMwhat stage are your video glasses at and will we see them soonish?
edthecow
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 7:04 PMdumb question: why does the analogue audio out on my Sony amp not work when I use a optical digital audio input with the result that I have to use the headphone output to drive an external device?
product question: when can I get a Sony car stereo with DAB receiver + handsfree bluetooth phone + ipod/iphone connect + usb/sdcard reader and *without* cd player?
company question: is it time to break up Sony and if not then why not (i.e. is it best to keep together for economies of scale OR for synergies between divisions? n.b. from outside neither seems a strong argument).
PMM
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 9:06 PMwhat happened?
Josh
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 11:14 PMWhens ps4?
Josh
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 11:15 PMBut seriously… Ask that last question!!
Paulw
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 11:30 PMWhere’s the “Sony Pad”???
Nomet
Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 10:03 PMYou’re a hardware company that promotes people to own your DVD players, computers, gaming consoles, phones, memory devices, TVs, home theatre systems and even music and movie content…so my question is… why do you have NO software to effectively and easily SYNC all your content to ALL these devices EASILY in one software package that is actually user-friendly instead of relying on consumers to manually sync all their different devices by copying and pasting or through platforms like DLNA?
Jack
Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 10:26 PMHere’s two questions that might indirectly get Kaz Hirai to open up about the next PSP or their mobile gaming strategy:
1) During Sony’s last earnings call, Masaru Kato alluded to a new, broad mobile device strategy that would blend various Sony assets, including Playstation, in order to address the light gaming market taking hold on smartphones etc. In light of this, what future is there for the Playstation minis platform? (The point of this question is to try and get Hirai to clarify what relationship this new mobile strategy will have to Playstation, and to future PSP products – i.e. will it be a new Android-based sub platform that will also run on PSP2 instead of a new PSP2 minis platform.)
2) Kaz said last year, after Nintendo 3DS was announced, that he wasn’t really sold on the quality of glasses-less 3D on mobile devices. In light of Sony’s conference yesterday has he changed his mind? Can glasses-less 3D displays offer a high enough 2D display resolution to be usable on a next-generation PSP? Moreover, could Sony now really launch a new Playstation Portable without a 3D display given Sony’s overall push towards ‘personal 3D’, putting it in everything from laptops to cameras to portable blu-ray players?
SF
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 8:26 AMhi.. i am a big fan of sony but nowdays samsung and lg are dominating the market everywhere.. they have amazing designs, good reliability and the price is very competitive.. my question is will sony ever get its crown back as the best electronic company in the world.. ? it seems impossible but then nobody thought samsung and lg will beat sony ever.. i really want sony back as the best in quality and innovation..
batboy
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:11 AMhi can you give me anything regarding the ps4 like when is it going to come out or what features it has or any thing please thank you