What can Nintendo and Sony gain from Microsoft's recent news?

[maxleresistant]

Nem said:

maxleresistant said:
I said it already, but Gaming is moving towards being a service rather than being attached to a unique hardware.

Sony is doing PS now, but it's really not perfect, Microsoft is destroying the generation gap and rapproching PC, mobile and console gaming (with consoles being a living room device)
Nintendo will be the last one to do the move. But their going to start with the Virtual Console.

This is like the phone market for games. It is big, it is growing, but it doesn't replace the console market. 

I don't think PC's or tablets have the capability of replacing consoles. As for streaming services, they are always sub-optimal. 

So, i do think Microsoft has a logical market there, but its going to be difficult to hold both that and the home console market.

You are thinking now, I'm thinking 5 to 10 years in the future. Things are changing quite fast, and dedicated gaming consoles are going to be something of the past.

I'm not saying I want it to be, but that's just how it's going to be.