Well, if the future moves on to streaming and they can't keep pace with Microsoft or Google's infrastructure advantages… I think there's a lot of uncertainty in the market as strong as they might be with the PS4. In a world where you buy a cheap screen and never upgrade anymore, what would be left for Sony to do? I guess go for Nintendo's market more w/ dedicated portable hardware, but who knows what that'll even be with smartphones being ubiquitous for the streaming services.
Virtually all sexually suggestive content is required to be censored/edited on the PS4, per directives from Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Mateo. If history is any indicator, this means they will be the first loser in the console wars, if not for the eighth generation then most certainly for the ninth. If the PlayStation loses significant ground, there's a chance Sony will bow out rather than challenge prevailing California morality and risk their skins.
This is false. There are tons of M rated games with sexual and suggestive themes on both PS4 and Vita.
Go to http://www.esrb.org/ratings/search.aspx select PS4 or Vita, M rating, content include: sexuality, timeframe: whatever you like and feast your eyes.
Off the top of my head, Witcher 3 on PS4 had sex scenes explicit as an American R rated film. Unless it features penetration, it seems Sony doesn't object to it.
Folks around me sing praises of Samsung and LG display panels, and I can still vouch for my Bravia I got years ago. That thing is rock solid and one of my personal best investments so far in consumer electronics.
Slide 11, "Q1-Q3 FY2018 Results by Segment" shows that all of Sony had an operating income of a bit over 800 billion yen. Of that, about 250 billion came from gaming and network services (so hardware + PSN, basically). By comparison, mobile communications _lost_ about 50 billion.
Still being the second largest record company, the largest music publisher and owning a ton of rights to music, video and tv.
I know physical sales are declining, still yet to die out, and until that and probably even further, Sony will do just fine, even without phones, and maybe even without PlayStation.
Yes, they definitely shook up the market, which is great.
I have an A72, and an EOS R and have tried almost all the modern cameras in the market. I enjoy using the canon one significantly more than the A72. The A73 is slightly better but not overwhelmingly so.
Sony cameras are still meh, they still overheat. They are relatively frustrating to use. Their autofocus tends to hunt in low light (great eye AF notwithstanding).
They win at video, almost overwhelmingly in specs. Unfortunately, I am into photography, not video.
I suppose you are speaking of A7 II? Overheating is a problem for video only, and fixed on the A6400. Their technology is ahead of competition, not "meh". But it is a shame they do not have full touch screen, for some reason.
The camera body gets warm (not uncomfortably warm, but annoyingly so) after shooting stills for a while when the outside temperature is high. And it rebooted on its own quite a few times when I was traveling in my home country.
This also contributes to extra sensor noise in long exposure shots in the dark, which Sony tries to mitigate with software. This leads to the infamous 'star eater' scenario.
If Sony withdraws from the game-console market, what will be left for it to do?