konnichiwa on 12 March 2019
| Shadow1980 said: It will fail. Establishing a strong hardware brand in the console market is no easy task. Software is the biggest key, especially exclusives. Atari had ports of various arcade hits, including Space Invaders, Centipede, Missile Command, and Asteroids. Nintendo likewise had ports of their own arcade hits for the Famicom's early years in Japan, and Super Mario Bros. put the NES on the map in the West. Sega didn't have a hit on their hands until Sonic the Hedgehog, the game that exploded the popularity of the Genesis. The PlayStation had the lion's share of third-party games in Gen 5, most notably Final Fantasy VII, which in the U.S. pushed the system from middling sales to massive success. The Xbox had Halo: Combat Evolved, which redefined the console FPS and set the standard for everything that came after it, and its sequel single-handedly made online gaming on consoles a mainstream thing. What does Google have to offer? What is their killer app? What are the big AAA exclusives that will draw tens of millions of gamers to them? Nothing that we've seen. All they have is a concept and an intent, and that means nothing. The console market is littered with the bodies of dead console brands that never went anywhere for various reasons, either because they lacked any significant amount of exclusive software with broad appeal, or because they priced themselves out of contention. Mattel, Coleco, NEC, SNK, Atari (the second version), the 3DO Company, Apple, Philips, Magnavox, Bandai, Pioneer, and assorted other less notable also-rans never amounted to anything in the console market. The TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine was the only console not made by the the five majors to reach 10 million units, and none of the others reached 4 million. What makes Google think they'll be any different? Whenever someone tries to enter the console market, especially in this day and age, I have to remain incredibly skeptical that they'll have anything approaching a snowball's chance in hell of becoming a success. |
Well it is easy to agree with you but that's what they said about Playstation and Xbox. Let's just wait and see how much money they spent on AAA games.
