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Soundwave on 06 January 2016
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

That's because Sony makes basically the modern NES. The Playstation is really nothing but the natural evolution of the NES concept just taken into account the natural growth of demographics (ie: people who were kids with the NES were going to want to keep playing as they got older). 

You may be happy with limited choice, but most people are not. If you were everyone in the market, Nintendo wouldn't have any issues, but that isn't how things work. 

Eh, Sony is just a pawn of third parties, that's why they are helpless when it comes to the erosion of their installed base in their home market. Even if they wanted to, they couldn't do anything about it. This inability to make a move is what creates a big opening for Nintendo to sell their own products; in Japan anyway, but such openings exist in the rest of the world as well. Like zorg said, various demographics are underserved. If Nintendo removes the hardcore stench from their current systems, they'll have a good setup to sell to those demographics because a lot of their games already transcend gender and age.

What erosion?

100 mill (PS1), 150 mill (PS2), 85-90 million (PS3 projected), 100-150 mill (PS4 projected finish)

Seems to me Sony is far and away the most consistent and steady hardware manufacturer the business has seen, far moreso than "first party giants" Nintendo and Sega. You're letting your bias against them get in the way of giving them deserved credit, they simply took Nintendo's formula behind the NES and SNES and then watched Nintendo self-implode onto itself by voluntarily accepting a niche position. 

I would agree casuals are an untapped audience if we were speaking in 2006. Problem is we're not in 2006. We're in 2016. And contrary to what you think this is a huge difference. 

Casual demographics are NOT underserved. If anything they are the most overserved segment of the industry today. There are more games made for casuals today than any other demographic. There is even more marketing to this audience than any other ... I see more game app commercials than Nintendo + Sony + XBox combined these days, seen that Arnold Schwarzenneger apps commercial like 50 times it feels like this past month alone. "Download for free on the App Store" IS the biggest slogan in the game business today.

This notion that casuals are in need of rescusing from Sony and MS' brutish hard-to-use shooter boxes and Nintendo (and *only* Nintendo) can be the white knight that finally gives them games they can understand and play is incredibly out of touch from the reality. These people have hundreds of different games being throw in their face for free.