I hate to bring up an old topic, but honestly, who ever expects the companies who get into the video game industry to have gotten into it? A few of the old contenders, perhaps, but most of the new ones are surprising. Nintendo? Sure, they had a history with card games and the like, so it made some sense. Sega? They made coin-op games, so it wasn't such a big leap for them. But what about Sony? The people who make the Walkman and those camcorders, making a game console? It sounded downright absurd back in the early 90s, Sony didn't do video game systems! And Microsoft? The guys who make Windows, the software giant, going into gaming hardware? Yeah right, it'll never happen (except it did).
My point is that what a company does now doesn't determine what it's going to do in the future. Companies get into new markets all the time to test the waters and see if they can't get a new cash cow. I'm not saying it's going to happen (I hate predicting the future), but I am saying that it can, and if it does, it will likely catch most everybody off guard. If such a thing did happen, this new contender could be bad for Nintendo and eat away the casual market, it could become new competition for MS and Sony for the hardcore market, it could turn out to be yet another underperformer like the CD-i or 3DO, or it could even end up a dead-in-the-water project that never sees production like the Phantom.
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