What If? The PS4 Fails And Sony Quits The Gaming Industry

[The Fury]

TwoThreeSoFly said:

The Fury said:
If Sony does leave the industry, I think they will only leave the console part, not games making, that part is profitable. However if they did, then MS would be able to implement their DRM policies due to lack of competition. You will either have Nintendo or MS as a choice and I'd hope another company would step into the mix to produce more competition. But I hope that new company is no Apple or Google. Someone like Samsung who are hardware specialists.

I think that sadly this will be the fate of Microsoft. I can see Microsoft leaving the hardware division and sticking to just software (games) especially if they have a repeat of the original Xbox. I think with the amount of money they put into the Xbox one they stand to lose the most this gen especially with the high price in all. They should have took a page from Sony and saw that it doesn't matter what kind of iressive tech you have in a console people just don't want to pay the price. They wil sell but we will see them lag all generation long like Sony did unless the drop that price. 

We can scream about features, but my time on this site and many others have shown me that despite all the advancements a system has, price always reigns king. I am in the minority of gamers who buy all the systems just to enjoy all the industry has to offer. Most people usually get what they can afford and stick with it and for some strange reason go to war with words on the Internet over a company as if their lives or family lives depended upon it. It is very hilarious at times. 

Maybe then there might be another solution to the industry as a whole. Look at mobile phones, there are numerous mobiles which can use Android OS, which includes games produced by many different companies to download. In other words, console industry should be split up, hardware manufacturers should make competiting yet similar consoles all with the same OS on them and game developers just make games that work on them.... in essence, dedicated gaming PCs but for the living room (limited functions, I don't need excel on a games console :P). Of course this idea ends when you consider Apple exists in mobile market.

And arguements on the internet are just about defending someone's opinion. You spend your hard earned cash on the product you want then you goto a website with someone calling it bad. You are going to defend it as it's essentially like them insulting your choice and your opinion. That's all, no real brand loyalty.