Sony was once brilliant company. I had played thousand times with PlayStaion and PlayStaion 2. But when PlaySation 3 came out market, I didn’t buy it. You know why? It was too expensive and there was no game I’d lik to play. It is sad most well-know game platform is going to fade.

Sony looks very “westernized” company. But truth is that Sony is very old, typical Japanese company. Nobody took responsibility. Decision was always postponed.  There are so called “NY mafia” in Sony HQ. They are Japanese but speak English fluently and love American management. They are good at cutting cost by reduce the stuff instead of thinking innovative product.

Mr. Kaz Hirai, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment is also in charge of business group that brings together Sony’s mobile electronics and personal computers. Since he became a president of Sony Computer Entertainment in November 2006, SCE never get enough profit from business. And what is worse is that Sony Computer Entertainment Japan now has 115 million dollar debt.  Yes, a person who never get any profit from his company is now leading Sony’s most expected business unit. Sony’s misfortune is that nobody understood what product user need.

Sony, stop make believe and hard look at yourselves.

Tokyo motor show was one of big exhibition in the world once. In 1991, there are over 2,000,000 attendees but only 614,000 attendees in this year. Japanese domestic car market is shrinking rapidly. It maybe because of economical recession and trend of ecology movement. But biggest reason of this shrink is that Japanese are losing interest in real cars.

Few weeks ago, one of Toyota’s top executive blamed at “Grand Tourismo”, Playstation TV game for decreasing car sales. Japan is very small country. Also, many public transportation, such as railroad, bus are available in most of city. Basically we don’t need car in urban. Even country side, super high quality Japanese car last 10 to 20 years with no trouble. Why should we buy new car, then?

Besides, if you own car in Japan, you have to pay six kind of taxes. Motor Vehicle Acquisition Tax.Consumption Tax, Motor Vehicle Tax, Motor Vehicle Weight Tax, Gasoline Tax and Road Tax. Under recession, people can’t afford such luxury for unnecessary item.

Car industry is still big business sector in Japan. But if people lost interest about car, who else want to build car?