Konami PC sales on the rise

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Chazore said:

Ka-pi96 said:

 

Yeah, I could see them doing pretty much what Nintendo are doing. Nintendo focus on gaming and have always done well with that. Sony are slimming down are lot and gaming is becoming a bigger focus for them all the time. The market may well shrink, but there will always be a demand for consoles and with what Sony have done so far they seem to be in a position where they don't even need to do anything special. Just don't screw it up and they'll sell enough consoles.

The reason I find it very illogical though is ebcause they've failed in many places, nearly all at the same time and have had to retreat, other companies are taking what they shed and taking more ground, having less ground does not mean you will last forever, Nintendo started with elss to begin with and had actual experience with age along with money.

Don't forget the PS3 was sold at a loss for quite some years with Sony, take into account they had to let go of two primary HQ's, just because we're seeing this new first ever time Nintendo move of Sony doesn't auto gurantee they will last out forever, numbers, history and trends will tell us otherwise but I just don't see it worked out so well for them, they've had to sell and lose so much and gaining so little won't help with longevity, look at the PC market for example, Steam alone has 100 million users and shows absolutely no sign of stopping, each new console gen has users dropping in and out and always will but it won't climb higher than what PC has in terms of output.

It makes more sense for Sony to eventually go mobile/streaming/third party or even 2nd party than trying to sink money into closed ahrdware time after time, there will come a time where PC knowledge will become more profficient and more adopted than a console that's trying to be a PC, that's why I agreed with okr because it will happen based on technology advancing and becoming more open, closed hardware that stays behind the trend cannot keep up forever, I'm not exaclty an optomist but when it comes to things like tech and markets I'm heavy on with things changing and consoles will be the ones changing within at least 20-40 years at best.

Whats the problem with closed systems? PS4 is cheaper than pc, the ps4 cost you as much as a decent graphicscard on pc, 400$. Imagine if sony drops the price to 300$. Sony just needs to play it right, releasing a consoles every 5 years with backwards compability. People simple buy a new console just like they would buy a new graphicscard at that price level. Many people are confused by the last consoles who hold more than 5 years and no backwards compaibility. But with x86 this will be a different story and it will easily be to devolope without any research like they did with the ps3cell engine.

 

- sony music, pictures and gaming devisions all make money.It makes sense for them to think about entertaiment first. Thats why playstation will be always important.

- steam has 100 million users so why are next gen ports based all around the console versions? from these 100 users only 8 million are online all the time, its less than people are willing to buy a wiiu. Thats a free program necessarry to run to play steam games vs a 270$ console.