On the Record · Sony
Sony competitors, on the record
The companies whose own annual reports name Sony as a competitor, each with the sentence it appears in and the filing it came from.
Who Sony names
Sony’s annual reports for 2023 to 2026 describe its competition by kind of business and do not name competing companies.
Who names Sony
Companies whose own annual reports name Sony as a competitor.
Word for word“Our gaming platform competes with console platforms from Nintendo and Sony, both of which have a large, established base of customers.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“In addition to third-party software competitors, integrated video game console hardware and software companies, such as Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, compete directly with us in the development of software titles for their respective platforms, while at the same time acting as key distribution channels and payment gateways for our products and services through their digital storefronts.” 10-K for 2022
Word for word“Canon’s primary competitors in the interchangeable-lens digital camera market are Sony Group Corporation and Nikon Corporation.” 20-F for 2022
Word for word“Globally, we also compete with certain vendors, including Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft among others, for direct-to-consumer digital and physical offerings.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“We compete against established, well-known camera manufacturers such as Canon Inc. and Nikon Corporation, as well as large, diversified electronics companies such as Samsung Electronics Co. and Sony Corporation, and specialty companies such as Arashi Vision Inc. (Insta360), SZ DJI Technology Co., Ltd, Garmin Ltd., and the Ricoh Company, Ltd.” 10-K for 2025
Harman International Industries
Word for word“In the car audio market, we compete with Bose, Pioneer, ASK, Foster Electric, Sony, Lear and Panasonic in the sale of car audio systems to automotive manufacturers.” 10-K for 2016
Word for word“We also compete with alternative microdisplay technology providers such as Texas Instruments with DLP, Sony with micro OLED and JBD with micro LED.” 20-F for 2025
Word for word“Consumer AV competitors include Sony and Tesla, who are developing self-driving vehicles for consumers.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our competition includes established, well-known sellers of audio products such as Bose, Samsung (and its subsidiaries and brands Harman International, Denon, Polk Audio and Bowers and Wilkens, and JBL), Sony, Bang & Olufsen, Sennheiser, Apple, Google, and Amazon.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“We are required to obtain licenses from certain of our competitors, including Sony and Microsoft, to develop and publish titles for their respective hardware platforms.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“We face sound bar competition from large consumer electronics brands such as Samsung, Sony, LG, Bose, Sonos and Onn.” 10-K for 2023
Read from Sony’s annual reports (20-F for 2026, 20-F for 2025, 20-F for 2024, 20-F for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-06-18. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.