Sony sold its U.S. headquarters building on New York's Madison Avenue in January, as well as other buildings in Tokyo.
Jack Tretton, head of Sony's U.S. videogame business, said expanding the types of games available for the Wii U will be good for the Nintendo.
That colored strip along the base also reminds us ever so slightly of the Xperia U from Sony, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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With Nintendo struggling to juggle Wii games on the Wii U and Sony's Playstation 4 abandoning current gen PSN games, it looks like backwards compatibility is a thing of the past.
Other visitors include Sony Chairman Nobuyuki Idei, U.S. investor and philanthropist George Soros and U.N.
More to the point, 54-year-old Sony established itself in the U.S. long before 31-year-old Samsung.
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Xperia U combines powerful Sony entertainment in a stylish and compact design that consumers can personalise inside and out.
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The roughly 30 existing Sony Style stores in the U.S. are cluttered.
Dell shut down its effort to sell flat-screen televisions last year, unable to compete against offerings from Sony and Sharp in the U.S. Worse yet, while Apple is just now likely to launch its first handset that will take advantage of high-speed, third-generation networks, Japanese companies have been building handsets tailored to such networks for years.
Penny Arcade Report senior editor Ben Kuchera recently wrote suggesting gamers buy a Wii U as a message to Sony and Microsoft about how important the issue is to them.
Thanks to strong partnerships with American carriers, it has forged a much larger U.S. presence than Sony Ericsson.
Explaining the decision to market only the monochrome version in the U.S. market, Sony spokesman Ted Kanno said the company sees strong demand for such products.
In its U.S. debut, Sony, Polyphony Digital, and Nissan North America gave consumers a chance to get behind the wheel of a real race car through GT5.
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Underscoring the importance of a new PlayStation and the U.S. market, Sony held the announcement event in New York rather than in Japan, as it had in the past.
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"Starz has been a terrific partner and we are excited to be extending our relationship with them through the 2021 slate, " said John Weiser, President, U.S. distribution for Sony Pictures Television.
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"We are excited to be working with Amazon to offer consumers the ability to enjoy their music anywhere-on any device-with Cloud Player, " said Dennis Kooker, President, Global Digital Business and U.S. Sales, Sony Music Entertainment.
Its Saturn game player has been zapped off U.S. retail shelves by Sony's PlayStation and the Nintendo 64.
Absolutely, and not just from Mitsubishi (Sony exited the LED-display business in the U.S. a couple of years ago).
Sony cornered 35 percent of units shipped in the U.S. digital camera market during the third quarter of this year, according to IDC.
Available as a bonus loaned exclusively to U.S. customers purchasing the Sony 4K LED TV, the video player comes loaded with content, including both full length Hollywood features and a gallery of videos, creating the first true home 4K experience.
In Japan, where Palm and other U.S. PDA makers have failed to gain a large market share, Sony will be positioning the Clie as an accessory for the audio-visual or entertainment-conscious consumer while the U.S. market is more focused on its use as a work tool.
Just like with the Wii and motion controls, Nintendo leads the way with second screen controllers with the Wii U. If this report is correct, Sony wants to go the proprietary hardware route, whereas Microsoft is going with phones and tablets, but one way or another all the major companies want to put second screens in our hands.
Before Sundance, Sony Pictures Classics made an offer for the film's U.S. distribution rights sight-unseen.
Meanwhile, in console-land we have three current-gen systems with a huge catalog of really good games, the upcoming Wii U, and the next-gen offerings by Sony and Microsoft coming next year.
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"On the other hand, as the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Sony Betamax case several years ago, technology that has substantial non-infringing uses cannot be outlawed simply because pirates might also use the technology for infringing activities, " Weiss said.
At the U.S. Patent Office Japanese firms (like Canon, Sony, NEC, Toshiba and others) consistently place in the top 10 or 20 of annual patent grantees.
In 2008, Sony Corp. closed what was identified as the last television manufacturing plant in the U.S., in Westmoreland, Pa.
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