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Torillian on 31 October 2016
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Alkibiádēs said:
Torillian said:

If the core concept is to not develop for two platforms and just develop for one doesn't that mean Sony already did this as well.  I mean I keep hearing about how they abandoned the Vita to focus solely on PS4.  Gravity Rush 2 is coming to PS4 when the previous one was on handheld.  Are there any Sony developers making Vita games left?  And if not, haven't they already beaten Nintendo to this innovative concept of consolidating their development teams, just not in the nice way people would like?

No because all Sony did was abandon a failing console. The PS4 is not a hybrid console. You can't play PS4 games on the Go unless you buy the Vita for an additional $200 (which is very expensive for a console that's practically dead). Sony's handheld divisions have always been very small anyway. They didn't book many successes.

This is evidenced perfectly by remasters like Gravity Rush and Tearaway for the PS4. If it really was a hybrid console than why did they need to remaster Vita games to the PS4?

People can live in denial all they want, but what Nintendo does is new. Sony never had much of a presence in the handheld market anyway. I've seen many people call the Wii a fluke or a fad, but that goes even more so for the PSP.

For Nintendo the fusion between their handheld and home console divisions will make a noticable difference and increase efficiency by a lot. Sony never invested as much resources as Nintendo in the handheld market. So them not developing Vita games anymore won't even make much of a difference for their PS4 software output.

So Nintendo is doing something new because, although other companies have made hybrids and have consoloidated their development teams, no company has consolidated the amount of development teams Ninty is into a hybrid.  Sure, if we get that specific then I suppose it's an innovation.  But so now let's go back to the OP, what in your mind could Sony or MS possibly copy about the Switch now that we've established that neither has a meaningful enough software development division beyond what is used for home console game development?  



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