Satya Nadella says more Xbox games will be released on other platforms

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G2ThaUNiT said:

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How Sony operates is that they make devices, and on the other hand, make content for the devices - and other similar devices. Basically the Playstation division has been some sort of exception for bringing in the money. After restructuring, the game & network division have been making money pretty well, but considering the financial risk in releasing new systems and increasing development costs and times for games, it becomes harder and harder to justify exclusivity to consoles. Considering Hirai said years ago that Playstation focuses on service, I'd see it more likely that Playstation will be a service and you can get this set-top box called Playstation you can use to play these games on Playstation network at your living room. And Sony may even license the systems to other manufacturers, so that they either just get royalties from or manufacture some systems themselves. This is pretty much what Google does - they licence their content shop platform to any system possible.

If you look at how the tech world have been for a decade: Sony copies Google, Apple copies Sony, Google copies Apple and Microsoft tries just to hang in there. 

This is exactly what Valve is trying to do. They attempted it a decade ago with Steam Machines, but we know how that went lol. Now they've found their own niche with first party hardware, but with their open-source OS that can be downloaded anywhere. Big difference though is Valve having the luxury of Steam being available on practically 99% of all computing OSs.

That would be an interesting prospect on what a set top box PlayStation might look like. Would Sony do what Valve does and make their own first party hardware but rather than it being open source, license out the OS to manufacturers?

This concept isn't new either as Nvidia/AMD have licensed out their GPU tech to other OEMs for a long time now and other manufacturers are able to adjust/modify to make their own unique product. 

Well, a decade ago the marketplace was a bit different. There were lots of console exclusive games and Steam is much less known brand than Playstation. 

The OS can be Windows on Intel/AMD compatible hardware, as far as I'm concerned, as long as the DRM is Sony's and games are bought from the Playstation portal. I was thinking a platform more in lines of MSX back in the day. I mean if Sony makes money out of games and loses it on hardware, it doesn't make much sense to sell hardware at a loss - if at all. Maybe LG or Samsung could manufacture Playstations cheaper than Sony. In reality were not far from that at the moment with the revamped PS5 not having even a disc drive.