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Wyrdness on 23 February 2019
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Agente42 said:
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

Nope the analysis is fine because as seen by the PS4 the basic strategy hasn't spoiled and is fine, PSP got beaten out by DS a non traditional handheld which targeted the blue ocean strategy which was a very unorthodox situation and one no company had really dealt with this strategy was deployed because dealing with Sony in a traditional sense is hard hence why the GBA was dropped the second the PSP was announced. PS3 even with Sony's mishandling still went on to outsell the 360 in the end what does that tell you? It flat out highlights my point in that in a basic approach set up Sony are always strong the platform that beat the PS3 and quite handily was the Wii another platform with an unorthodox approach once again targeting the blue ocean but with a different style of hardware.

Vita had its wind taken from its sales not just by the 3DS but by the rise of smartphones which did everything Sony aimed to bring to in the portable space including multimedia functions, mobile impacted the portable space that even the 3DS had trouble when it launched only difference is Nintendo knew how to pull through it Sony still unsure on how to deal with the DS brand let alone a new indirect competitor just gave up.

These are unorthodox approaches deployed by Nintendo which beat out those platforms as they didn't fall into the traditional basic approach that Sony dominates and knows how to deal with, when faced with such situations they don't know how to answer back if their basic approach doesn't deal with the problem this is why the Switch has been unhindered could in future go on to outsell other Gen 9 platforms when they arrive as it's another unorthodox set up that basic traditional approaches just don't deal with.