I Think We're Going To See A lot Of Tablet Consoles (Switch Knock-offs)

[EricHiggin]

Egelo said:

EricHiggin said:

Yes. PS is going to have to rely on PSN for the future. Letting you play on whatever hardware you want is going to become the norm way down the road. For now the gaming companies need to give you choices to play on, but as long as you pay for the online service and games, they dont really care how you play the game. Eventually you will probably be able to play on any brand device, as long as you subscribe to the gaming co's online network, and buy the games from them.

Vast majority of the world is at best decades away from that ability.  

Thats why I said the future. I'm one of those people. My 5mbps dsl rarely exceeds 1mbps due to the network being insufficient for the speed and number of homes on the local hub. The fix for this, is years and years away. Bell tells us basically "your nobody's" and we'll get to you when we get to you, which wont be anytime soon, and its so far away in fact they won't even give you an idea when you could expect a fix or upgrade to the network.

That's why for now its about the hardware, and making sure they have the right hardware, and competitive hardware out there, so that users will purchase it to play their physical software. PS and NiN are both in a very strong position in this sense, because they both have very strong first party support, so you dont necessarily have to like their hardware to purchase it. The more companies that enter the gaming market, and the more first party title games they bring with them, the tougher the harware sell will become, which is when the multiple platforms and online service becomes important.