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faustian.empire on 17 February 2022
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the-pi-guy said:
faustian.empire said:

first - they don't make much money on hardware,second - they will not drop it till at least 10 years from now as i mentioned.

3 things will force them to become a Software only Studio gaming company.

1)Apple and Google and Probably Amazon will have their own consoles.Apple already has the Apple TV but it is far from a console and poorly powered but in the next 5 years Apple will try to get into Console business.Google and Amazon will soon follow.

2)Streaming will become a reality even for multiplayer games,but it is at least 10 years away.

3)Big Tech and all the industries have gotten way too consolidated and monopolized,US Government will break the monopolies and Single App Store model.Apple itself is losing the fight to a keep its iOS App Store monopolized.Something similar is going in Europe and South Korea

1.) We're seeing the opposite happen with Google. They've already dropped out of the industry. They're now selling Stadia to third parties, they've demoted the entire Stadia brand.

Amazon has been trying to get into the gaming industry for a while, and they haven't gotten very far.

Apple remains to be seen. They've had a lot of projects that they've been trying for several years to get off the ground that have to go anywhere.

2.) It's a good thing that Sony also has streaming tech. Ironically they've been working on it for a while. 

3.) I'm not sure how that would help Apple/Google/Amazon, while hurting Sony.

1)Google has dropped out of the streaming business which they never should have gone into as i said before,it is atleast 10 years away.

Apple will be the one that starts then Google,Samsung,Amazon will follow.It will be more of a Hardware platform thing.

Sony and Microsoft will move away from Hardware platform to a software oriented role.

3)A multi Platform App Store would benefit somebody like Steam and Epic Games Store and Amazon who are behind it.Apple also is moving towards a more services based business.

Sony can also benefit from it but it will have to acquire a lot more studios to bolster its exclusives lineup like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video do in the Streaming Segment.

Sony will have to focus on either of 2 segments,A multi Platform App Store or A big gaming Studio with across multiple app store.FOCUS is the key topic here

Sony has one big Head Start that it is the biggest Gaming Studio,it is similar to Disney  in the Movie Segment.