torok on 13 December 2013
| ChrolloLucilfer said: I think it would be a massive mistake on Nintendo part to consider a partnership with Sony. The PlayStation brand has fatal flaw with is it over reliance on Third Party software to sell their consoles. Without Third Party support the Playstation brand would not even exist. While Sony had the majority market share in the important core audience with their first two consoles. It only took the initial failure of their third console to lose half that market share to Xbox Brand. This really demonstrates the flaws of relying on Third Party publishers to sell systems and it very likely only going to get a lot worse in the future with the rise of cloud gaming. Cloud Gaming platform offers finally a realistic and a lot more profitable way forward for the big Third Party publishers to go away from releasing games on consoles. IF a Third Party Publisher created their own cloud gaming streaming platform their would be massive benefits of |
I don't think it shows that they have a bad situation. Nintendo went form 90% share with NES to less than 60% with SNES and a little more than 20% with N64 even with first party games.
