Cueil said:
HappySqurriel said:
Cueil said:
The problem with looking at the Wii as a competitor is that it's not really one. Sure in the gaming market the Wii is the leader, but in the home entertainment market you have a battle going on. Microsoft and Sony are both trying to position their systems as the center of home entertainment... and while both are having some success I'm guess that we all know who is pulling ahead of the game now. |
If you look at them as "Home Entertainment" rather than "Videogame Systems" wouldn't they both still be losing to DVD by a very wide margin?
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DVD isn't really the home entertainment ... the device that plays it is... so both can play DVDs. Sony is going Blu Ray and Microsoft is going On Demand... or Streaming... whatever suits the users. I think that the more one console leads the other... in this case Microsoft... you could see a shift to their standard. I mean you've got around 30 million Xbox 360's in the world. That's not a lot, but if they can get that up to 50 million and their next system takes everything with it then you have a potential user base in the 100 million range. If Microsoft goes this route they may never stop the development of the Xbox 360. Perhaps it'll come in another form... like the PSP Go where it has no drive to play games, but you can download games and movies or stream the movies to your system. I can imagine the suits at Microsoft foaming at the mouth... hell I can see the suits in the movie industry foaming at the mouth... A proprietary device they can release their content on that has insane encryption protecting it. You'll have the packet grabbers and what nots, but the future looks like digital delivery all the way. I just don't see how the Movie and Music industry will survive without it.
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Except that I'm not that convinced that the majority of people who own an XBox 360 or PS3 use it as a DVD player/Blu-Ray player, or to play (legal) streaming content ...
