Is Microsoft capable of buying out Sony?

[QUOTE="dethroned3"]

[QUOTE="Trmpt"]

sony is worth much more than microsoft.

so no.

Trmpt

judging by assets, sony is worth approximately three timesmore than microsoft.

microsoft

Total assets▲ US$ 72.793 billion (2008)[

sony

Total assets▲ US$ 230.5Billion (2009

[QUOTE="Trmpt"][QUOTE="dethroned3"]

sony is worth much more than microsoft.

so no.

dethroned3

not long ago someone gave reputable statistics that sony was worth more than microsoft.
guess i'll have to personally look into this

[QUOTE="Trmpt"][QUOTE="dethroned3"]

[QUOTE="Trmpt"]

sony is worth much more than microsoft.

so no.

dethroned3

judging by assets, sony is worth approximately three timesmore than microsoft.

microsoft

Total assets▲ US$ 72.793 billion (2008)[

sony

Total assets▲ US$ 230.5Billion (2009

[QUOTE="dethroned3"]

[QUOTE="Trmpt"] lol, MS is worth over a 100 billion dollars more than Sony. :lol: I couldnt help but laugh at my screen when I read your post.Trmpt

judging by assets, sony is worth approximately three timesmore than microsoft.

microsoft

Total assets▲ US$ 72.793 billion (2008)[

sony

Total assets▲ US$ 230.5Billion (2009

EDIT: for kicks

Balance Sheet Get Balance Sheet for:
View: Annual Data | Quarterly Data All numbers in thousands
PERIOD ENDING 31-Mar-09 31-Mar-08 31-Mar-07
Assets
Current Assets
Cash And Cash Equivalents 6,806,127 10,972,953 6,799,142
Short Term Investments 5,323,256 4,319,861 4,193,178
Net Receivables 10,744,517 13,406,316 13,715,252
Inventory 8,374,600 10,318,110 7,997,438
Other Current Assets 6,044,040 11,580,357 5,942,138
Total Current Assets 37,292,541 50,597,596 38,647,146
Long Term Investments 49,423,829 43,790,045 33,054,256
Property Plant and Equipment 12,111,389 12,557,825 12,083,014
Goodwill 4,572,767 3,074,672 2,589,687
Intangible Assets 7,243,218 5,734,103 4,606,567
Accumulated Amortization - - -
Other Assets 5,272,961 5,014,024 3,413,940
Deferred Long Term Asset Charges 7,822,459 6,014,399 5,194,469
Total Assets 123,739,163 126,782,664 99,589,077
Liabilities
Current Liabilities
Accounts Payable 16,936,372 20,385,042 18,859,265
Short/Current Long Term Debt 4,646,897 3,586,540 811,419
Other Current Liabilities 17,669,001 16,664,424 10,520,059
Total Current Liabilities 39,252,270 40,636,007 30,190,742
Long Term Debt 6,799,514 7,363,496 8,508,543
Other Liabilities 42,616,281 38,276,728 29,688,197
Deferred Long Term Liability Charges 1,940,098 2,712,860 2,219,367
Minority Interest 2,595,075 2,796,175 331,245
Negative Goodwill - - -
Total Liabilities 93,203,237 91,785,265 70,938,093
Stockholders' Equity
Misc Stocks Options Warrants - - -
Redeemable Preferred Stock - - -
Preferred Stock - - -
Common Stock 6,496,880 6,368,818 5,328,710
Retained Earnings 20,038,001 21,481,882 15,338,480
Treasury Stock (47,936) (48,157) (30,932)
Capital Surplus 11,896,850 11,629,615 9,719,096
Other Stockholder Equity (7,847,869) (4,434,759) (1,704,369)
Total Stockholder Equity 30,535,926 34,997,399 28,650,984

have fun..... google SNC Balance Sheet if you want a better view

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Exxon could buy Sony and Microsoft up all together

[QUOTE="Trmpt"]

Do they have enough money to do so? I wonder what would happen if they did.

Maqda7

Viva La Trance. I smell some italian here?

sony cant buy microsoft, microsoft cant buy sony they are both really huge companies

No..

Nope

Sony has too much pride

Not even close. Sony is huge with a bunch of divisions. It's not just a gaming company.

Guybrush_3

[QUOTE="Guybrush_3"]

Not even close. Sony is huge with a bunch of divisions. It's not just a gaming company.

Considering that the Japanese wont even buy Sony products anymore (thier latest series of just about anything, has been faulty to a degree), it is possible that they could in theory, they wont or cant tho, they are not allowed, and who wants to buy a sinking ship?

The main reason is: Sony has to push technology in order to sell products, if said rescearch, or the tech has haults, it is billions out the window (happensquite often, not just to Sony).

Sony has made some huge leaps, but some of those leaps turned out non profitible, andSony does not carry the weight people seem to think. in Tvs Samsung and Philips sell better overall in the entire Asia and Europe, I think in the US aswell.

Sonys music labels are losing money on the MP3 market (sucked up by the Apple corp.) They tryied to make a PC line, I betmost peopleherenever seen a sony computer.

The movie industry is losing money alltogether.

So the bottomline is that nearly all Sony branches are losing money.

Then there are the Japanese Work Morals, which leads to restructures of branshes quite often, because Sony does not want to lay off personnel (a noble goal).

You see...Everytime Sony makes a decicion it can make or break huge parts of Sony.

Microsoft however are entirely different. MS makes a program, it is expencive yes, but whenthe programming is done, the rest is insanely cheap, a windows disk is cheap to manefacture, in contrast to a Sony TV, and often give a way bigger revenue per disk (1 sold windows disk nets a higher potential revenue then a sony tv). Where as Sony needs to pay for componants, bots, and manufactureing plants, and tvs have to be retrofitted to fit the systems around the world. a Tv is sold for more,but when the bills are paid, I do think MS earns more on thier windows disks.

And MS have a higher buyer base, because most people are going to use a Windows in thier pc, and there are an insane amount of pcs out there.

MS game division is different ofcourse, this gen MS seems to have used dumping prices to make marketshare (they did make a revenue tho) a smart move to get into the industry.

Sony NEEDSto find new tech to save thier company as it is now, they are not at the bring of bankrupsy yet, butunless they knock out a tv (or the like)that by far surpasses the competitions products, things are not gonna look good

M$ could easily purchase Sony, but it wouldn't make sense and it wouldn't get SEC backing. And stop posting Sony assets without posting their debt. Also assets are never sold for the assessed price. They are often sold for MUCH less (20-40 cents on the dollar). Accountants inflate asset numbers for collateral to cheaper loans. lhughey

They could but it wouldnt be worth ti

Sony is in financial debt in all of its divisions

MS buying it wouldnt benefit them at all

Not a chance.

[QUOTE="lhughey"]M$ could easily purchase Sony, but it wouldn't make sense and it wouldn't get SEC backing. And stop posting Sony assets without posting their debt. Also assets are never sold for the assessed price. They are often sold for MUCH less (20-40 cents on the dollar). Accountants inflate asset numbers for collateral to cheaper loans. surrealnumber5

Good god SW posters, don't post if you don't know what you're talking about.blue_hazy_basic

They tryied to make a PC line, I bet most people here never seen a sony computer.

Maddie_Larkin

No, not only is it unlikely, it would be a rather stupid decision for both MS and Sony.

Sony is a diverse company that produces high quality products buying them out would be a against microsoft's policies.

MS Don't even have that kind of money to buy off Sony. Just google how much Sony is worth and you'll be surprise...

Oh on a side note this thread was created already here's the link < http://www.gamespot.com/forums/show_msgs.php?board_id=314159282&topic_id=25581241 >

It would be cool to see Microsoft get into the hardware business in some things instead of branding their name onproducts like Zune (Toshiba), X360 (Various) and Fusion car audio, but I have no idea whose hardware that is.

Sony Corporation is much bigger than Microsoft , go check the list of the biggest corporations in the world at WikipediaKurdish-Gamer

oh great! then my ps3 would break.

Probably. I wouldn't be surprised if they did some time in the near future.

Lol, Sony makes way way way way way way way way more revenue then microsoft. Sony is a MUCH bigger company, there is no way they could. Sony is in all categories of tech. They're in movies, tv, electronics (tv's, cameras, etc), they are in music, and so much more.

Lol, Sony makes way way way way way way way way more revenue then microsoft. Sony is a MUCH bigger company, there is no way they could. Sony is in all categories of tech. They're in movies, tv, electronics (tv's, cameras, etc), they are in music, and so much more.

imaps3fanboy

Lol, Sony makes way way way way way way way way more revenue then microsoft. Sony is a MUCH bigger company, there is no way they could. Sony is in all categories of tech. They're in movies, tv, electronics (tv's, cameras, etc), they are in music, and so much more.

Well I may not know whos worth more financialy but IMO/to Sony does way more than what MS does in terms of product production and other technology

Lol, Sony makes way way way way way way way way more revenue then microsoft. Sony is a MUCH bigger company, there is no way they could. Sony is in all categories of tech. They're in movies, tv, electronics (tv's, cameras, etc), they are in music, and so much more.HOMIE_G64

Definitely not. You must remember, that Microsoft is pretty much in a monopoly for operating systems and offer many overpriced applications, on top of whatever the hell it does online with Bing.com and all that. Sony faces stiff competition in all fields it is in. Sony definitely does not make more revenue than Microsoft.

umm, yeah Id say that they could I mean correct me if IM wrong but isnt MS pretty much like one ofthe richest company in the world?

One of the problems here is that Sony's products are just more visable so since people see them more and think Sony is larger. For example you walk into Best Buy and you see these big Sony TVs. At that same Best Buy it is not as in year face a lot of the Microsoft products being sold. 95% of the PCs being sold there will have a couple Microsoft products from the OS to Money,Word, and so on. MS makes money of of each o those products. So a PC that has 3 MS products installed then MS will get money for all 3 of them. Software just the way it works is more profitable. Depending on the version of Windows it can cost several hundred dollars. There is far less costs selling the software then TVs and whatnot. Can ship far more at a time, far less physical components. It just needs a disc, a box and some shrink wrap. Even then MS sells a lot just thru digital downloads and you of course can not do that to TVs. In the end MS is able to get far more profit from their revenue.

Just think how many PCs are used from personal,work,gaming. Almost all of those PCs will have at least one Microsoft software installed. Every house almost has at least one TV but no where near will all of them be a Sony TV.

Sony is a diverse company that produces high quality products buying them out would be a against microsoft's policies.

Zaibach

High quality products? They are getting beat in just about every field they are in. TVs are getting beat by Samsung. Gaming they are getting beat by Nin. I don't even see Sony Walkmans anymore after Apple came out with the Ipod. Dell and HP pretty much killed off Sony's Vaio PCs. Sony products use to be high quality at reasonably good prices. Now they are just over priced mediocre products living off the perception of what the brand name use to be.

according to forbes sony make 3.7 billion profit and Microsoft make 17.23 billion :O so financially Microsoft could buy out sony's gaming division, if not sony themselves as sony's market value is 17.23 billion so microsoft could buy sony with one year's profits :ORichymisiak

[QUOTE="Richymisiak"]according to forbes sony make 3.7 billion profit and Microsoft make 17.23 billion :O so financially Microsoft could buy out sony's gaming division, if not sony themselves as sony's market value is 17.23 billion so microsoft could buy sony with one year's profits :Oblue_hazy_basic

[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"][QUOTE="Richymisiak"]according to forbes sony make 3.7 billion profit and Microsoft make 17.23 billion :O so financially Microsoft could buy out sony's gaming division, if not sony themselves as sony's market value is 17.23 billion so microsoft could buy sony with one year's profits :ORichymisiak

From Forbes

Sony

Sales $78.262559 bil
Profits $-1.001701 bil
Assets $121.631173 bil
Employees 171300.0

For Microsoft

Sales $61.175 bil
Profits $15.821 bil
Assets $68.853 bil
Employees 91000.0

[QUOTE="Zaibach"]

Sony is a diverse company that produces high quality products buying them out would be a against microsoft's policies.

sleepingzzz

High quality products? They are getting beat in just about every field they are in. TVs are getting beat by Samsung. Gaming they are getting beat by Nin. I don't even see Sony Walkmans anymore after Apple came out with the Ipod. Dell and HP pretty much killed off Sony's Vaio PCs. Sony products use to be high quality at reasonably good prices. Now they are just over priced mediocre products living off the perception of what the brand name use to be.

Short answer: no Long answer: nooooooooooooodouble_heist

even longer answer: Hell NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

From Forbes

Sony

Sales $78.262559 bil
Profits $-1.001701 bil
Assets $121.631173 bil
Employees 171300.0

For Microsoft

Sales $61.175 bil
Profits $15.821 bil
Assets $68.853 bil
Employees 91000.0

rybe1025

Sony
on the Forbes Global 2000
Sales Rank:
58

Profits Rank:
116

Assets Rank:
162

Market Value:

255

Here is Microsoft
on the Forbes Global 2000

Sales Rank:
95

Profits Rank:
8

Assets Rank:
280

Market Value:
6

Microsoft buying out such a huge company would not only bring up anti-trust issues, but a huge backlash from the media. It would be very unwise of them to do so.

They can, however, throw money at devs for exclusive deals :P