Nintendo's Evolution from Gamecube to Switch (...was pre-mediated imho)

[hunter_alien]

bdbdbd said:

hunter_alien said:
Good catch. Actually everybody is moving one way or the other towards this hybrid approach: take Sony ever since they made the PSP S&L HDMI ready, or MS offering all thier games to be consumed on laptops as well or Apple by simply creating the App Store and Apple TV. This is a natural evolution of the industry, and Nintendo is fully a part of it.

It's more like the industry is moving away from TV. Even if you'd think stuff like Chromecast would be a move towards hybrid, it is still using the device that you stream from as an interface, making the "hybrid" approach rather useless.

If you look at the market currently, it looks like Sony is in a rather dire position considering the future, as Sony seems to be only one still locked into a TV. MS has UWP, so you technically can play all the UWP games on all Windows devices, Nintendo has Switch (and 3DS, though I don't think 3DS will be important anymore in the future) that don't require a TV, then there are all the Android devices.

Then again, didn't Kaz take the direction to make "Playstation" a service (not different than Steam) a few years back.

Really? I always imagined that PS+ and PSN are a 2-pillar aproach that Sony might capitalize on going forward. IMO when it comes to gaming they are pretty well set in thatr regards. As soon as they have the pricing figured out they should be golden in the age of the post-TV livingroom.