Mr Khan said:
Whether this is part joking or not, i think this is the case. The shift in winning console company only came around when a fundamental shift was made in the norms of console gaming. Nintendo unseated Atari when they re-worked the console game from an open-platform, 3rd-party free for all development cycle to a closed-platform cycle driven by first-party releases, and also got consoles really popular with the children. Sony changed that by building a console game where 3rd party exclusives were a competitor's best asset, and expanded consoles into the high-school/college demographics. Now Nintendo has changed it to a battle over innovation in user interface, and expanded consoles to seniors and women.
Unless Microsoft or Sony can make a fundamental change to this latest definition of a console, they are going to lose to Nintendo strictly due to momentum, if nothing else. I equally think that Microsoft and Sony will spend the next generation trying to play catch-up with Nintendo in terms of re-building themselves as the everyman's console, while Nintendo continues to push outward. Unless they can cut out ahead of Nintendo with some brilliant move, it won't happen. |
This is a quote i wrote for that "Microsoft is the new Sony, Sony new Nintendo" thread. Equally applicable here.
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