CaptainExplosion said:
derpysquirtle64 said:
They definitely won't leave console market before building solid userbase on PCs. It also probably should be bigger than their current Xbox userbase for them to consider leaving console market because they can't charge for XBL Gold on PC the same way they do on consoles because PC has a lot of alternative services without paid online. MS makes a lot of money from XBL Gold and I think the publishers share profit from selling games on Xbox Store as well. Right now MS doesn't have any game on PC except their own, RE7, COD:IW and a few indies. So, they won't leave console market anytime soon. And if they will leave sometime I still think they will have some kinda AppleTV-like Xbox-branded device which will stream Win10 games from their Azure cloud-servers. The only way I see them leaving is leaving video gaming industry at all. Without shifting to PCs.
PS. I voted for Nintendo myself. Unfortunately if Switch flops they will be in a big trouble because it seems that the only people who are interested in their consoles are their fans which is not good. Also it seems that they can earn a way more money from cheap mobile games and they already heading this way, so why bother with hardware at all. If it happens it's gonna be really sad for me because Nin are my favourites from all three
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They could, but so far they haven't earned much money from mobile games, having to split Pokemon Go profits.
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Yes, but they haven't really started yet. Unfortunately, video games industry as a whole is in danger nowadays in my opinion. The majority of revenue comes from mobile and f2p PC games like MOBAs. And they are all cheap to develop as well. We already see that the amount of new AAA IPs is low compared to 10 years ago because it is too risky to spend money for something that might flop. So I have a fear that Nintendo can consider leaving console market if their mobile gaming will succeed
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