vivster said:
The thing is that to even have a chance to compete against the massive brands of Sony and Nintendo they would have to put a gigantic amount of money into it. Like more money than Nintendo and Sony put in combined, while risking not to succeed anyway. That's a pretty huge ask. Normally I'd say that MS should put in the effort to make themselves a proper competitor but if this gen has shown anything it's that competition in the console market means shit. There simply is no competition since every competitor thrives in their own bubble with barely any influence from others. So right now the best bet for MS is probably to be financially profitable. What that means for them, I wouldn't know. But they don't seem to want to drop the Xbox brand anytime soon. |
Don't really agree with the holder part. Especially when it comes to Sony and MS.
I get what you mean though., but that really only applies to Nintendo because we'll Nintendo always kinda does their own thing. And by that I just mean a thing that's different from what Sony and MS usually does.
But back to Sony and MS.... while the market is big enough for two twin competitors to thrive I don't think we can say the success or even the presence of one doesn't influence the other. One way to look at it is that the PS4 would probably be an at least 80M seller right now if the XB1 didn't exist. or the XB1 would be a 80M seller if the PS4 didn't exist. The XB1 will be an always online thingy right now if the PS4 didn't exist or the PS4 could have been a $600 console if the xb1 didn't exist.
