| Persistantthug said: Incorrect, retail is in EVERY position to dictate shelf as they see fit. Example: In America, You have NEVER seen ONLIVE's console version in any chain brick & mortar retail store...& you never will. Many retailers refused PSP Go's too DD only vid game systems = 0/2. |
I like how you just flat out say I'm wrong. So what Dutch Nedgame and EB Australia are the litmus test? Plenty of retailers sold the psp go. Here's the thing with Onlive, they don't have to sell their console in stores. Like I said before Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo could easily cut storefronts out entirely. They could sell directly from their sites, pair up with large online retailers like Amazon and be done with it. Brick and mortar companies just sell stuff, they don't deal with the back end. Onlive does just fine selling its console by itself, since you need to interact with their online part in order to use the thing anyway. Sure you don't see their console in stores, but that's not stopping the rest of them pulling out. Any sense that retailers are in control with Onlive is because Onlive is an outskirt company, its not like one of the highly established game companies. Sure it'd might not be the smartest thing to work with Onlive if you run a store, you'd probably like to see them fail (and they could since they are a smaller company), but if the other companies decide to do something that cuts them out, then they decide to do something that cuts them out and they need to figure out what else they can sell or try to sell more of what still will. (like the digital codes talked about earlier) The only thing that would prevent one of the big companies from making the plunge is if the other ones opt not to, because retail is where the majority of the market stands right now and they would loose out big time. Even if Sony and Microsoft made the jump together, Nintendo would practically have stores like Gamestop with a disclamer underneath it saying "owned by Nintendo".
You are mistaking retailer control with Market control, they are not the same thing.
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(
