[QUOTE="CallOfDutyRulez"]At this point, the only company I can think of that could buy and revive the playstation brand is Samsung. Samsung Electronics has around $102 billion in the bank and Samsung Group excluding Samsung Electronics has $160 billion in the bank. Along with Samsung's massive $15 billion/year in marketing budget, the PlayStation could become king of all consoles again.Caseytappy
Â
Yeh right !
First the banks in Japan will keep pumping money in Japanese Sony to prevent a Korean Company from buying one of their biggest brands and next the Playstation from Samsung ( Sony ) would sell worse than the Xbox brand in Japan .
What Apple has taught Samsung is that doing all the R&D and selling your tech to CE companies doesn't pay as much as tricking your customers into thinking you engineered the tech when you actually didn't. Note: Retina Display which isn't the same display. The Samsung-made Retina display was engineered by Samsung. Same with SHARP and LG. That's why the Samsung Retina Display was superior to LG's in the same macbook model. They were made with different manufacturer-proprietary technologies. Apple, however, tricked their customers into thinking Apple was the one who engineered the display. By doing this, Apple was able to justify overcharging for their products, because their customers think they're buying an Apple-engineered tech when all Apple did was assemble Samsung's tech. Samsung had its foundation on R&D and selling their technology to other CE companies. We are now seeing Samsung aggressively push into the CE world like never before. A Samsung game console is inevitable. Samsung would be able to build almost everything that goes into a console by themselves, which would cut a lot of the costs. They could create a more powerful console than the competition and come out with a far lower price while still turning in a profit due to its manufacturing advantage. Whether Samsung buys the PlayStation brand is actually irrelevant. I only claimed that if Samsung were to inherit it, they would be able to easily revive the brand with their current clout.
Log in to comment