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Sony: love it or hate it, they've made some poor management decisions over the last several years and it's coming back to bite them in the ass. Failure is looking less like an if and more like a when by the day. Please keep the fanboyism in /v/; this not about Playstation vs Wii U vs Xbox One vs PC. Comparisons may come up as talking points as they did in earlier threads, both in positive in negative lights, but remember that Sony gaming is a relatively small, if heavily publicized, part of the company.

Some info from the last thread to get the ball rolling:

Sony is currently in break up talks with major investors, Third Point LLC, Daniel Loeb and Morgan Stanley.

Morgan Stanley is acting as the mediator for the dispute. We first heard the rumor about the current break up talks back in May.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-30/sony-said-to-work-with-morgan-stanley-citigroup-on-loeb-plan.html?source=email_rt_mc_body

Now it appears the break up talks are in full swing.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-09/sony-woes-seen-prelude-to-loeb-inspired-breakup-real-m-a.html

Vaio has been sold, AV is being spun off into it's own company (still fully funded by Sony, so a pointless endeavor if the point was to help SNE)

Entertainment division struggling again; Robocop is failing, Pompeii forecasts looking poor, ASM2 flopping or coming in below expectations could be the final nail.

Rumors that Amazon want to buy the Entertainment division, Apple showing interest as well and willing to start a proxy war over it if they can't get it. Loeb in panic mode, shoring up.

PlayStation 4 short term manufacturing likely to be affected by shortage and increase in price of GDDR5 RAM thanks to cryptocurrency boom

Discuss. Cite sources when necessary as well.