A generation with four successful competitors?

[Joelcool7]

HappySqurriel said:

Two thoughts:

1. As the industry grows more consoles can be successful (to some degree).
2. As the industry grows it takes more and more money to successfully enter the market.

 

Realistically, there are only a handful of companies which are large enough and inovative enough to successfully enter into the market; most of which I believe have little interest in gaming.

I'd have to agree the only companies that come to mind are

Apple

Cisco

Apex

Then of course their are the few publishers big enough to enter (Activision,Sega, EAGames,UbiSoft) but none of them would likely take any chances at crashing and burning!

I think if the recently suggested Apple intro occurs they would be smart to team up with Cisco who also wants to enter the industry. Cisco had talked about buying Nintendo awhile back and showed great intrest in entering the industry. One thing is for sure Apple can't successfully compete without some very big help! I can't see how their is even enough room for a fourth competitor let alone one with no internal studios to support the hardware with first party content!

 

In otherwords barely anybody even has the financial support they would require to enter the industry, let alone compete. If the biggest corporate giants can't enter how can any fourth competitor be expected to compete?