| leatherhat said: Well I hope Neil Young will remember, a sony man don't need him around anyhow |
This post wins the thread.
On a serious note: what this guy is saying is not materially different to what David Jaffe said. It's just that Jaffe didn't try to pick a winner.
Sony will most certainly make and sell whatever set top box replaces the game console as the thing you plug into your TV to play games (among other things). As Mr Young points out Sony is an electronics hardware company. They will continue to produce gaming hardware. Whether Sony decides to retain a Sony specific online service is a different matter. MS, it would seem, would retain it's online service, but if set top boxes start being manufactured by every electronics company (Samsung, LG, Phillips, Panasonic etc) then I wonder if MS would stay in the hardware game; possibly not.
I can see set top boxes going the way of mobile phones for operating systems: Apple (it's already got Apple TV, so not hard to see that moving more solidly into the gaming sphere), Google (Android/Chrome) and Microsoft.
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