About Sony ( the electronics company)?

Question

Does sony face competition and from whom?
Threat of entrants?
Threat of substitute?

Answer 1

Hi, yes Sony has competition, and whom, depends on what market you are looking at. Sony playstation faces rivals nintendo and microsoft with their wii and xbox 360 consoles respectively. SOny electronics consumer faces rivals from all areas, i.e. mp3 playes the greatest competetion is apple with the ipod, with televisions, there are a number of mass produced cheap alternatives and Sony has to balance the superior quality product versus lower price alternatives available in the market place. some people are only interested in buying the cheapest product avaialble, some are interested in the best quality and some are interested in a balance between the two! To try and 'balance' the sony offering they bought out aiwa and sell aiwa products (stil lwith the aiwa badge) to have an offering at the 'low end of the consumer electronics price bracket). Sony also operate in the professional markets, i.e. broadcast and medical markets, and the competition varies from country to country!

Answer 2

Of cource sony faces competition.
its competitors are LG,Samsung,Haier,Videocon,Nokia and all other major electronics giants which u can name.
of cource there is threat of entrents.
say for example the case of MP3 players.
another good example of competition is Playstation 2 and 3 of sony and Xbox360 of Microsoft.tis example answers your first as well as second question.
Ofcource there r substitutes introduced in the market which harm one or other company.
but i dont think any subsitute will affect sony.
because it plays in many markets and is not dependent upon a single product.
Effect of substitutes is exeplified by the replacements of IPods by smart phones which can also provide good sound qualities.
here also sony is the hunter and not he hunt.
apple iPods r getting cheaper now!!!!!!

Answer 3

of course they face competition.

look at thier products.

Cinema, they own one hollywood studio, and produce television for Asia. they use this to market thier DVD and film empire. But they are up against Time Warner, United Artist, Colombia, and hundreds of Television production companies.

Sony BMG is thier music arm, which is up against Virgin, Warner, ect...

Sony Ericson is the mobile phone arm, and they have panasonic, orange, Motoroller, Nokia

Playstation is the games wing, and it is up against X-Box

Cameras, well they is Olympus, Minolta, Panasonic,

They are a big company, with a lot of fingers in a lot of pies, but they have some serious competition as well.

Answer 4

i think sony's main competitor is the supermarket... so many people are buying their electrical goods from asda (walmart) now... Pacific, its so much cheaper, and the goods are quality.

they cant get in on the mp3 game cos apple have that cornered.

and nintendo are challeging the PSP with the DS... and arent doing too bad!

their Hi Fi's are really good though... i have 1 :(

sony isnt all its cracked up to be.... brain washers maybe - but they havent cornered the electrical market.

Answer 5

sony are only one of the top companies due to ignorance of the consumer. sony put big price tags on their equipment so the consumer thinks it is good quality when in reality it is just as good as all other makes.The manufacturers all use the same electronic components so inside they are all more or less the same