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sc94597 on 20 June 2015
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spemanig said:
sc94597 said:

Third parties have a lot of influence over Sony and MS. They can easily go into a hibernation mode (as Japanese developers had done last gen) and limit the growth of Sony and MS in the market. Also with a growing PC market and competitiveness of Sony and MS in terms of exclusives, one of the companies can try to win third parties over the other by releasing earlier. I have to say your prediction on this one is just not going to happen. 


You're being entirely unrealistic. Look at the ramifications of the japanese gaming industry after they went into "hibernation mode." Third parties aren't going to just throw a temper tantrum and stop trying to make money just because mean old Sony won't let the PS5 come out and play yet.

Third party "influence" wasn't enough to shorten the last generation, and it won't shorten this one either. The PC will never outpace the console market. No matter what happens, PC will always be shackled to the specs of the current generation consoles. There will never be some mass exodus to PC from 3rd parties because the consoles are taking too long to upgrade. Publishers will keep making games and consumers will keep buying them. 

No, but they are going to look in their self-interest. They are going to ask Sony or MS for deals, and if they find that it is an environment that is not conductive to productivity and profit-making then they will reduce their productive activity so that they can increase their profitability. 

The PC might never outpace the console market, but we are starting to see a path where the third parties use PC as their secondary platform for sales. Last generation nothing was really too exclusive between the consoles, and in this generation there are "console exclusives" with PC acting as the other platform to pick up sales. This motivates MS and/or Sony to try to appease third parties, and one way of doing that is creating a console that will allow certain larger third parties to benefit, when the market is asking for said console. In 2021, most people would have had 4k televisions for years. It makes no sense that games would not even to meet 1080p on a consistent enough basis. Third parties will realize this, and consumers will realize this. Third parties out of interest of pleasing said consumers will pressure Sony and MS, and if Sony/MS refuse then third parties will be content with making cheap sequels and AA games as opposed to big AAA releases. This will negatively affect Sony and MS who would have to pick up the pace with first party software.