| Norion said: Well it seems like it'll happen even faster than I expected. I thought faster PC ports and Switch 2 ports were gonna happen over the next few years but I didn't expect them to bother with Xbox. At this point I would not be surprised at all if day and date starts happening for the big stuff before this decade is over. Now the main question is when Nintendo will follow suit since I expect that to happen eventually even if it's still well over a decade away. |
Nintendo will be ten times smarter about it than the current circus that is Sony. Ironically, Sony should have been the more careful one between the two, because they make so much more money from 3rd party content than Nintendo does.
If hypothetically Nintendo transform to a 3rd party publisher, they'll continue to sell a ton of software, probably quite a bit more than they do now. And the loss in Switch's subscription and 3rd party tax revenues will be minimal compared to Playstation.
I just can't fathom Sony's choices here. Microsoft made many dumb decisions, but their transition makes a lot more sense simply because Xbox is no longer a huge platform (it takes a lot of risk, hard work, commitment, and short to medium term losses to get the platform back to relevance), and they actually do have the software selling power to massively benefit from going 3rd party. Microsoft's software going full exclusive would be tiny in sales compared to going multiplatform. This is just not the case for Sony, who is risking too much for too little.
