Wyrdness said:
Having looked into the streaming situation a bit more this is very true MS are lining Nintendo up to be one of their major clients I can see them pitching cloud tech and offering server services for online to Nintendo. For MS this would mean the entire dedicated portable market would be a consistent userbase for them, Sony right now if all this comes into being would be banging their heads against a wall as it's not a traditional set up like they adept at dealing with, all of Sony's for lack of better words defeats to competition in the gaming space has come from non traditional situations, PSP, PS3 and Vita were beaten out by situations that are unorthodox. I don't see gaming going fully streaming centric but I can see the streaming side of things becoming a feature for platforms like how online has and at some point Sony would either have to partner up or be forced to create their own. |
Nontraditional situations? It seems an apology and bad analysis. Sony lost because the basic strategy has spoiled: it's the same always, fill the platform with all possible games. On the PSP lost because the Nintendo handheld market is much stronger than the console market counterpart. Nintendo prioritizes the handheld market, Sony does not. At Ps3, Sony's hubris( 500 dollars, second job?) plus Microsoft (online better than Sony) and Nintendo (market break, blue ocean and attempt to bring old players back) forces have captured part of the Sony market. Finally, in Psvita, once again, the Nintendo handheld market is always number one for the same, while Sony has abandoned the Vita. And the Ps Vita when it was released, did not present many exclusive qualities, as far as the multimedia part, as happened at the beginning of the PSP