That's just sad. Now that Playstation is doing so good this happens. Not good!

Darn, Aurora AND Pleasant Prairie shutting down. I went to the outlet in the cheese state once and they had Heavenly Sword for like, $20.

you know that hype that Sony is selling like crazy and is doing fine? well is to mask the real financial problem that it has.

i live near the woodbury,ny store..only reason i went to that damn outlet strip!! now the what am i gonna do when the g/f wants to go shopping ?!?!?

They closed down the Sony store in the Metreon in San Francisco. That place was awesome, except everything was crazy expensive.

That store was a tech nerds dream as everything was cutting edge, but unless you were a superstar silicon valley hipster or CEO living in the Marina you couldn't afford a thing in that store.

http://www.notenoughshaders...
Sony went from 100 billion to 11.6 billion in 10 years..
"Total liabilities are the total amount of all financial obligations (short term and long term) of a company. This includes all creditor claims on company assets.

Electronic Arts Total Liabilities: $2.27 Billion
Google’s Total Liabilities: $21.33 Billion
Apple’s Total Liabilities: $51.15 Billion
Microsoft’s Total Liabilities: $54.91 Billion
Sony’s Total Liabilities: $135.61 Billion

Sony has more total liabilities than Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Electronic Arts combined.

Total assets include cash in the bank, property, accounts receivable (money owed to the company), equipment, and inventory.

Google’s Total Assets: $86.05 Billion
Apple’s Total Assets: $162.90 Billion
Microsoft’s Total Assets: $121.27 Billion
Sony’s Total Assets: $166.22 Billion

Compare Apple’s total assets ($162.90 billion) to Apple’s total liabilities ($51.15 billion).
Compare Microsoft’s total assets ($121.27 billion) to Microsoft’s total liabilities ($54.91 billion).
Now compare Sony’s total assets ($166.22 billion) to Sony’s total liabilities ($135.61 billion).

Since total assets include everything that Sony owns (cash, buildings, divisions, intellectual property, etc.)…Sony would have to sell over 80 percent of their total assets (Total Assets = Every single thing Sony owns including cash) just to pay off their total liabilities.

If you combined the June 2012 total liabilities of Microsoft ($54.91 billion), Apple ($51.15B), Google ($21.33 billion), and Electronic Arts ($2.27 Billion), that would equal to $129.66 billion in liabilities. Sony would STILL have $5.95 billion more in total liabilities than Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Electronic Arts combined. It really paints a picture of just how out of control Sony’s total liabilities have become.

The biggest problem here is that Sony’s total liabilities show no sign of declining. They keep increasing and eventually, this bubble is going to pop. It’s important to understand that not all liabilities are inherently toxic. Companies are expected to have significant liabilities at all times. It’s when we compare Sony’s liabilities to assets ratio with that of other major corporations that it suddenly becomes clear that something has gone wrong.

Sony is selling a lot of their assets lately.. I wonder what will happen next. The PS4 is doing great but it seems that the core Sony is in panic right now, on how to revive this 50/50 company..

It just sucks, growing up my town was thriving. We had new stores opening all the time, and buildings being built constantly. I finally get old enough to go work at these places, let alone shop there, and everything goes to hell and just keeps getting worse.

I always wanted to go to a Sony store, instead I get a bunch of empty business buildings on literally every corner because our government does nothing to help keep anything alive.