Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida calls console gaming niche

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Azzanation said:

mjk45 said:

He wasn't comparing it to the world's population, it was just a poor attempt to show that the deal had wider implications than just the gaming division .

These companies want to hit the hundreds of millions if so billions of subscribers and customers. You wont achieve that status with just making plastic boxes. The audience is a lot bigger and limiting yourself to 100m customers isn't the way to get there. So this statement makes a lot of sense to me.

I don't think anyone is arguing about these companies direction and the deal and how it makes sense for Sony since it isn't limited to just gaming, it impacts their sensor and other entertainment divisions and then there's the world of AI and Sony's hardware coupled with Ms's software means they will be competitive in a world that is increasingly reliant on AI. but instead of talking this up he went negative when there was no need, all he had to say is it has consequences for more than just gaming and this is us making sure when the time comes we are well placed. having said all that we need to just look at what he said without adding any of our own  comparisons and see if it stacks up his statement was compared to gaming in general console gaming is niche now if you look up the word niche it is defined as a specialised segment of a mainstream industry so the definition doesn't fit console gaming also Rol mentioned that it accounts for 25% of total gaming so looking at it from those points it seems like all of us me include  have been wasting our time adding layers that were never there and talking semantics about nothing but a poorly worded part of a statement.