| Machiavellian said: I believe the past people purchase console just for games but the market has become much bigger. If you think about how many consoles sold between the 360, PS3 and Wii. This generation people expect the 360 and PS4 to have the same abilities as the PS3 and 360. People expect this gen to be entertainment systems not just a game console. As someone mention, Sony nor MS talk about their console as game console but entertainment devices. We cannot go just by paid subs because by nature the consumer must have paid for the service weather or not they purchase a console. Instead a true measurement of how people use their console is to measure how much time they actually play games or do other things like using media apps. If people spend even 40% of their time doing something other than gaming on their game console then those other things become important enough to decide a purchase. |
comparing time spent watching a movie or tv episode compared to time spent in a game is not really a ballanced way either, the average multiplayer gamer for example is likely to spend much longer in a game session than someone watching a movie, or tv episode.
And i would wager that streaming services are used a lot more for tv episodes than they are movies, which reduces the time spent watching media.
