TheTechLounge crew write up a piece on the state of the electronics giant & what this could mean to the industry as a whole. I personally don't think that Sony's going anywhere. Losing market share, maybe, but they're far from calling it quits.

"Now having worked for and with Japanese companies, hiring a non-Japanese to do anything with a lot of responsibility is rare, but to run the whole company? Almost unheard of. (Nissan hired an executive from Renault, but that was because he was a shareholder and Nissan was close to bankruptcy. And he lived in Japan. And he knew the automobile business.)"