Sony is one of the largest manufacturers of mobile terminals, recently being in the center of attention following the cyber attack caused by the production of the comedy The Interview. Although the company seems to have recovered from this attack, it continues to register a decrease in revenues, announcing to its investors that it would lose 1.9 billion dollars in the fiscal year that ends in March.
In this idea, the CEO Kazuo Hirai would discuss with the company's managers a possible sale of the division that produces mobile terminals, this being one of the most affected. Poor smartphone sales have generated huge losses for Sony and this seems to be forcing it now to get rid of unprofitable divisions.
After failing to turn around the storied creator of the Walkman since taking the helm in April 2012, Hirai and his deputies are now open to options including sales and joint ventures for its money-losing TV and mobile phone operations, company officials familiar with the leadership's thinking say. Sony, which has cut its earnings forecasts six times on Hirai's watch, forecasts a 230 billion yen ($1.9 billion) net loss for the business year to March, and will suspend dividend payments for the first time, after deep smartphone losses.
Last year people from Sony they sold the division that produced PCs, and this year it could be the turn of the divisions that produce mobile terminals or televisions. For Sony, the loss of these divisions would represent a concentration of attention on the console segment or the production of image sensors for cameras, extremely profitable divisions.
Sony sold 18.5 million consoles Playstation 4 from the launch of the product until now, surpassing sales Xbox One, and its components for mobile terminals are in great demand. Sony has been selling cameras to Apple for years for implementation in iDevices, and this seems to be the direction in which its managers will focus after years of consecutive losses.
Unfortunately, the exit of Sony from the market of mobile terminals would leave room for small manufacturers of bad Android terminals to conquer part of the clientele lost by the Japanese company, and this will not help innovation.
