JRPGfan said:
VAMatt said:
We're already starting to see Microsoft games on Switch. I think that trend will only accelerate. Sony will get there too, but I imagine it will a little longer for them. Sony is still doing well with the traditional game distribution model. Microsoft, at least relative to the kind of numbers that a giant company like that needs to see, is not doing so well. So they are more incentivized to find new ways to distribute their games to new players.
The same factors apply to both of them though. The dedicated home console business has been stagnant for a long time, in terms of the number of players. The big players have managed to increase revenue with microtransactions and expansions. But, that's not enough for these giant companies. These guys need serious growth, and they need it to continue. And the traditional business model is not providing that. So, as the industry moves forward, we'll see platform holders put their games on competitor's systems. We'll see more stuff launching on PC at or near the console launch. And we'll see more stuff coming to mobile phones. We're also going to see more and more streaming. There's no doubt about it.
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The question is.... why is 150m+ Nintendo users, 120m+ Playstation users, and 50m+ xbox useres, not a big enough market?
Even if it appears to have stagnated. Factor in the PC, and that should probably be another 200m or something.
How big a market does gameing need? are games to big and expensive, to not also chase the mobile market?
If so, imagine your next gen console, and most of the games there where mobile ones . _ .
"these guys need serious growth, and they need it to continue"
Why? earn a few billion here and there, and be happy..... is it so hard? how greedy are "these guys" ?.
"And we'll see more stuff coming to mobile phones. We're also going to see more and more streaming. There's no doubt about it."
I hope this doesn't come to pass.
I'm not buying mobile games on pc, or console, and wont in future either.
They go that route, they wont be getting my buy atleast (and likely many others).
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It's just the way capitalism the system is built around growth, so it's just not enough to just make good profits, on the extreme side I remember a newspaper story about an old New York company that made fire protection products and how the specialised nature of its business had always seen it make a good profit with steady if unremarkable growth either matching or just above inflation throughout its long history it was making 100 million a year profit when a new ceo decided they needed to grow at 16% per annum to maximise his bonuses even though through cost cutting they managed around 8% it impacted client satisfaction so the board decided to just close it down and write the loss off rather than look for a buyer long story short management and staff did a buyout and ten years of steady profit later has seen those workers and management benefit to the tune of a billion dollars and continue to inject many millions into the local economy.
