Nintendo is gaming, Sony/Microsoft are questionable.

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Kantor said:

RolStoppable said:
I agree with the point that Sony and especially Microsoft don't really care if gaming dies, because they could just move on to something else. Their strategies in the past few years revolved mainly about getting as much revenue as possible from existing users and they didn't seem to be interested in creating new customers, at least not when it comes to gaming itself (they tried to get people to buy their systems due to other stuff like Blu-ray and Netflix).

Of course now that their direction turned out to be majorly flawed (both lost billions), they are trying to do something different, although it doesn't really seem as if they like doing that. It's more a case of "we just have to".

Sony, particularly, has benefitted a lot from gaming. Not nowadays, but back at the PS2's peak, the gaming division made up the majority of the the company's profits. No, they wouldn't go under if SCE and gaming failed, but the article is acting like they really don't care at all, and if the gaming industry crashed, they would shrug, start whistling and move on. It wouldn't work like that.

Microsoft, to a certain extent, might behave like that, since their original aim was to thwart SCE. A gaming crash would thwart SCE. Unfortunately, if would also destroy PC gaming, which Microsoft joined to protect (in a strange, twisted way). Doh.

yes it would be a very sad day if the gaming industry crashed. You would have to feel sorry for Nintendo the most because that is all they got. Sony and M$ will bbe hurt for a little, but they'll shrug it off later and forget about it. Damn them.