Sony Corporation . . . Is Real Convergence Coming Soon?

The technical mavens at Sony must be suffering from indigestion by now. Domination through superior technological firepower used to be the only game in town. There's a new formula now though, something which has been slowly revealing itself over the past 6 or 7 years. Some of Sony's largest shareholders also have rumbly tummies, pining for the days when the Big Kahuna of Japanese electronics companies was just that—the leader of the pack.

Sony is still an electronics giant. Sony is also a content giant, what with the Sony Pictures, Sony Music and all. But the curiously opposed executives who ruled the upper floors at 7-35 Kitashinagawa 6-chome in Tokyo, couldn't seem to figure out that when you own the rights to tens of thousands of songs, hundreds of movies, electronics to download and play everything in sight, bandwidth to support online gaming, game consoles and even portable multimedia hardware, smartphones and wireless entertainment, it's probably a really smart idea to bundle all of this into a comprehensive package. Convergence? More . . .