RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:
RolStoppable said:
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.
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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.
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Not the first time today that someone doesn't care to read my posts. If I keep things short and something like this happens, why should I bother?
I shouldn't.
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I directly responded to your point that casual demographics are somehow underserved. They're not. And you know it. There is no underserved gaming audience sincerely except maybe sex gaming, and we know Nintendo will never go there, but someone is likely going to make a lot of money from that at some point.
If Nintendo is obsessed with finding the next blue ocean ... well there it is. No one said it had be a kid friendly blue ocean.
