| Joelcool7 said: Exactly why I don't want to see Apple join. They would tear the industry to pieces. Worst case scenario Apple buys Sony. Enters the industry with the I-Station. Throws a billion into ads and another billion into aquiring exclusives. They launch the product with the I-branding and PlayStation branding, bring in I-Tunes and all of Apple's other features. Apple then makes Sony music and movies exclusive to I-Tunes and other I devices like I-Station , Apple TV and I-Pads.They launch I-Station and a buying spree purchasing many more small publishers and developers. They then make game companies produce a certain amount of exclusives for their console and black list any company that disagrees. It'll be the I-Phone all over again this time with the games industry. Best case scenario. Apple Buys EA, enters the industry as a fourth competitor. takes a big enough market share to force one of the other three out of the industry (Probubly Sony as you said) With Sony gone Nintendo goes head to head with Apple possibly holding its own. Microsoft likely pores the remainder of its wealth into X-Box and puts up a hell of a fight. In the end we loose Sony and see Nintendo and Microsoft badly damaged if both are still in the console industry. Either way Apple will destroy the industry. They are the second largest corporation in the world with over 51-billion dollars in reserve (Spending money) None of the big three can compete with that much financial power. |
Then Valve and Blizzard form a super console...called the PC...oh wait.
After the decimating defeat of Microsoft and Nintendo, the PC fanboys continue to fight the good fight (children) against their evil Mac bretheren. It's a long battle with the PC side barely holding on with services like Steam. Blizzard goes PC exclusive in hopes of weakening Macs power, but in the end (it doesn't even matter!) all is lost and Steve Jobs has taken over the world with humanity as his slaves.
