Apple PlayStation makes sense


Microsoft is going ARM.

Nintendo has gone ARM.

Apple is fully ARM'd.

PlayStation is... a software and entertainment company struggling to make software.

PlayStation was beat by Sony Group Corp's CMOS sensor division last Q4. It is a big deal because SGC is not a Japanese shareholder company. They are a New York Stock Exchange company and those shareholders want growth, not dividends. 

It puts SGC in a rough spot. Their growth sector is chips, their profit sector was PlayStation. Now their growth sector is chips and their profit sector is chips. PlayStation is a lumbering liability and SGC needs investment money to grow chip technology and make all those Apple Pro displays (or not). 

SGC sucks at making phones. SGC sucks at making ARM anything. They killed the PlayStation Vita because they felt it sucked eggs like a bodybuilder in the 1980s. So what can they do to keep up with a tech industry that is abandoning X86 (64 if you must) and a development house that doesn't know how to work without it?

Sell PlayStation to Apple. Get out of video games, take the money, and grow chips. It just makes sense. Apple needs exclusive video game content to legitimize Apple as a serious gaming platform. They need PlayStation and SGC needs cash. It just makes sense.

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