| TheLastStarFighter said: Comments like this about the death of games consoles annoy me, because it over looks the fact that people like games consoles. They don't want to play on a tablet or PC. They like playing on their TV, they like a controller. XBox and PS3 were over-spec'd for various reasons. It was a bad decision by both companies...but neither has games as their main focus. If they were true games companies they would have followed the Nintendo pattern of making systems as they would have needed to actually make money. I'm just glad Nintendo was able to stick around, unlike Sega. |
Xbox & playstation dont focus on games because they rely on 3rd party games Nintendo doesn't.
I didn't say they don't focus on 1st party games. I said games are not the focus of MS or Sony, period. XBox is used to push the Windows brand, Sony used Playstation to push DVD and BluRay formats. I'm not saying they don't have great games or great systems, I'm saying the companies sell the machines at losses because they have alternative motives. Nintendo and formerly Sega needed to make money off games and systems. They used cheaper tech and made do. Nintendo continues to do so, Sony and MS would as well if games was the busniness they depended on. We may see Sony change up a bit since Playstation is supposed to be a "piller of profit" for new Sony.
