Sony Closing All Its Stores in Canada

Sony is a sinking ship that is already showing signs of its inevitable bankruptcy and total company wide collapse. For anyone who solely owns a PlayStation 4 I would be very worried, even though the PlayStation division is the only profitable side of the company, it's not a massive amount of profit and it's not enough to keep the company afloat, no where near to.

Why you should be worried is exactly this, they do not and will not have the money to update and secure their network, ever, their online services could cease entirely if they can no longer afford to maintain them or if they go under, they will not be properly updating the platform similar to how Microsoft is with the Xbox One and the monthly updates, there are already signs of this, very weak system updates that are spaced very far apart.

You PlayStation 4 only adopters bought into a solid hardware package, no doubt about that, but the company providing the software to move it forward and maintain it as a platform cannot afford to do so and is utterly falling apart. The PlayStation 4 over this entire generation is going to be left insanely far behind, it could even fail because of all of this.

It may be leading in sales at the moment but when people realize just how far Microsoft is ahead of them in software and how little the platform is being maintained it's going to be a blowout in Microsoft's favor.

i love Sony but I'd have to say they're closer to being third party or bankrupt more than anyone else

As a Canadian all I have to say is good riddance. I've never patronized a Sony store or Target. I shop Canadian owned retailers whenever I can. Sadly, it's difficult to do as so many stores are foreign owned (Perto Canada isn't even Canadian owned - yet has Canada in it's name!).

Sony stores weren't even competitive with their own brand compared to the competition. Software was never in line with competing discounts, and Sony electronics no longer have superior quality compared to even the Korean manufacturers.

Do Canadians even buy the PS4 after they jacked the price up 50 bucks? Everyone I know seems to own an Xbox One, PC, or a WiiU - yes, a WiiU. I'd love to see a breakdown of market share here.

broke ass company if it wasnt for the ps4 they would have shut down already

how about you let us keep our "free with plus" games, as soon as my subscription ends we lose access, what a scam, your as bad as microsoft.

i like how people like to think this is the doom of SONY or something, there's a total of 14 stores in the whole county, its not like closing them down would do anything in terms of finances for SONY. consoles will be sold in most supermarkets and gaming shop in canada, so its not like there missing out on profit either. anyone who thinks more into this is simply an idi0t because they can't comprehend the basics of business, it most likly was "we aren't making a profit close down these shops". my local supermarket tesco closed down a shop near my town, i dont instantly think the companies failing because of it.

what is this aboot ?

Those Sony stores didn't see much business lately. I was in one the other day, and there was no deals on anything. You can't compete if you don't have competitive pricing. Target had a similar problem. Low stock on shelves, and very little competitive pricing (opposite of the U.S.), people just didn't have a reason to shop there.

Its because Canada is full of bears. Stephen Colbert was right. Everyone in Canada is in danger of these bloodthirsty warmongers of death.

There's only 14 stores, majority of Canadians had no idea they even existed anyways. Like myself. The bigger news is Target.

Sony has stores? I thought they were called "Best Buy"