{"id":1755,"date":"2012-01-11T05:27:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T05:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=1755"},"modified":"2012-01-11T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T12:05:59","slug":"sony-gaming-is-key-to-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/1755\/sony-gaming-is-key-to-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony: Gaming is key to profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/347942-Sony\" target=\"_blank\">Sony Corp<\/a>&#8216;s videogaming business, led by its just-launched handheld &#8220;Vita&#8221;, will prove pivotal in returning the company to profitability, <a title=\"Person Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/364374-Kazuo-Hirai\" target=\"_blank\">Kazuo Hirai<\/a>, the executive pegged to succeed <a title=\"Person Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/370718-Howard-Stringer\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Stringer<\/a> as president, said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>But Japan&#8217;s leading consumer electronics brand remains committed to its TV business despite eight years of losses, Hirai told reporters at a press roundtable at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Sony is &#8220;still in the game,&#8221; added Stringer, who is also chief executive, when asked how it would counter the expected launch of a television by <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Inc<\/a>. Apple a decade ago ousted Sony from its perch at the top of the then-booming music-player business, and today outstrips Sony by far in personal and tablet computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp&#8217;s videogaming business, led by its just-launched handheld &#8220;Vita&#8221;, will prove pivotal in returning the company to profitability, Kazuo Hirai, the executive pegged to succeed Howard Stringer as president, said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,389,387,391,385],"class_list":["post-1755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-howard-stringer","tag-playstation-vita","tag-profits","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1755\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}