Nintendo and Sony have to bring out Handheld/Phone hybrids in 2017.

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KBG29 said:

Drakrami said:
lol what... correct me if i am wrong..

1. Pixel is a game changer, how? Google has always manufactured phones...?
2. The only companies who makes a decent profit on manufacturing phones are called Apple and Samsung. Why would Sony or Nintendo go gangbusters into a market they know they have a slim chance of penetrating and make any profit once they do?

1. Pixel is a game changer, because this is a real Google phone. It is not an HTC, LG, etc. phone with the Nexus name slapped on it. This time Google is taking full ownership of the hardware and the OS, and integrating features at a deeper level than they ever have. Going forward Android will be taylored to Pixel phones, and all Android development enviornments will be optimized for building apps on Pixel. 

Pixel will create a massive gap between Google's phone and the competition, and it couldn't have come at a better time. Samsung is in deep water right now, and Google is stepping in just in time to grab the people that are moving on.

2. Sony and Nintendo would do very well because they would bring out their own platform. Having its own platform is the reason Apple is the most profitable phone manufacture. When the company owns the platform, and the hardware, they get royalties on every transaction made on the device. This is why with only 40 million PS4's, Sony is making 100's of millions of dollars a quarter.

If Sony and Nintendo could even sell 50 million phones a peace, they would be making a couple billion in profits per year. I the they can recapture the 200 million gamers that typically buy consoles and handhelds, then we are talking about 10's of billions in profits per year between the two.

That is why having their own platform is vital. Even if they had a Pokemon Go sized hit every year, they would make nowhere near the amount of money they could make with just 50 million phones in peoples hands.

Because making your own platform is totally easy and not at all expensive or maintenance heavy. Nintendo and Sony can't even care for their own console platforms properly. So will they update their phones regularly like everyone else? No one wants to use a smartphone that is older than 2 years. In come the whining console owners for having to upgrade their platform more often than once in 7 years.

If both of them would just produce software for android and iOS they have a lot less risk and cost on their hands, that's why it's the smart thing to do. You seem to forget that Google, Samsung and Apple are in a whole different league than Sony and Nintendo. They can't make the same investments nor wager that kind of risk.

It's easy to talk big when you're not the the one taking billions of dollars worth of risk while having no clue about economics whatsoever.