Million on 04 August 2008
| Squilliam said: The games industry could lose any one of the big three and it will still survive. Or to put it simply any one of the three are expendible. Nintendo - Expendable, proven in the PS1/PS2 generation. Had they not existed then? It wouldn't have mattered. Sony - Expendible, this generation and the ones before the N64 are proof of this. Microsoft - Again, expendible. The point is, the three players in the market have to constantly justify their existance to you the consumer. If they don't they will drop out, its as simple as that. This is an industry where one or two players can expand and cover the whole market, much like the semiconductor industry. So the one who would drop out of the market would hurt it the least because at that time it would probably be the least relevant and influential in the market anyway. If you want proof, look at the exit of Sega! It hardly caused any ripples at all when they left. |
Your ignoring the question most probably because the answer hurts you too much , the question wasn't "what company would kill the gaming industry dead with it's depature" was it ?. Of course any gaming company would be expendable but that's beside the point. Sony and Nintendo offer alot to this industry and have both invested heavily in the growth of the gaming industry , Microsoft tried to elbow their way in buying exclusivity , aggresivley dropping the prices of the consoles to the point where they're unlikely to be even profiting of it , released shoddy , poor quality hardware and so on.
