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Puppyroach on 06 June 2014
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Intrinsic said:
Puppyroach said:
For the industry and us that loves games, this change in the industry might not be bad. We have alot more games and experiences to choose from nowadays.

But the reaction from some people in here is just hilarious, it's not like Kowenicki is making up the charts. The traditional home console/handheld market is shrinking, and shrinking really fast. This will affect Nintendo the most if they don't evolve their strategy. It will affect MS the least since they have the larger and more diverse business model. Sony are somewhere in between, but they are really struggling as a whole right now and a shrinking market won't help.

Sigh.... and you are also doing what is causing that reaction by some. Its clearly understandable why the traditional handheld market is shrinking. And a lot have already said why in this thread too. But pls, share with us what indicated that the home console market is shrinking too? and how you can arrive at that conclusion when two of the players have not even got to the first post launch holiday season. What we simply have is one of the big 3 doing extremely poorly. One struggling and one doing much better than it ever has. Exactly what happened in the PS2 era. 

Its not ok to just pull in other stats or paramiters when trying to bolster your point that has noting to do with the discusiion at hand or worse still, to ignore the things that would make your point or perspective less valid. 

I am not focusing solely on this gen, but the last gen as well. Console sales have dropped of as a whole in the last 3-4 years which obviously is related to how long the last gen as but als because the landscape for gaming has changed dramatically. We have already seen this happen in Japan. If the market fo traditional home consoles shrink, we might see more developers migrate to tablets/smartphone. This will affect everyone if they don't adapt.