Sony has announced that a new president and CEO will take over from Howard Stringer on 1 April, while Stringer becomes chairman of the board. Kazuo Hirai was already tipped to take over from Stringer when he was appointed to head of consumer products and services, the Sony Corporation's main business, and last week, Japanese …

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Wednesday 1st February 2012 12:37 GMT earplugs

April Fool's Joke?

This is the guy who's in charge of the PS3 which has been completely neglected 4 years in a row, part of the cabal that has shrunk Sony to nothing, and now we hear he's being promoted April 1st? Surely its a good joke. There really is a plan to turn around Sony this century?

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1. Wednesday 1st February 2012 16:27 GMT asdf
  
  come one now
  
  Cut the guy some slack. 3rd place in the console wars isn't so bad. Even if coming from a dominant position the prior generation and still only selling a third as many.
  
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2. Wednesday 1st February 2012 16:30 GMT asdf
  
  wow
  
  If you think the PS3 was a failure look at the numbers on the Vita. Don't know if I would consider Sony's consoles as having any kind of momentum right now even accounting for the recession.
  
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3. Wednesday 1st February 2012 17:01 GMT motoh
  
  Important decisions like vomiting over the XMB, using a proprietary memory format for the Vita, and the myriad 'save our lockin' firmware updates can all be laid at his feet. This is not a turn around, this is an acceleration into bigger losses and more failures.
  
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Wednesday 1st February 2012 23:59 GMT Comments are attributed to your handle

Cue stock complaint about rootkits, Other OS, etc.

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1. Thursday 2nd February 2012 17:09 GMT asdf
  
  No need customers are talking with their wallets obviously.
  
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Thursday 2nd February 2012 00:17 GMT Mediocrates

"Globally Focused"

Best oxymoron I've seen all week.

Can we have a drinking bleach icon?

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