That's strange. You'd think they'd want to make a successful console.

Sony
Nintendo
Microsoft
Ouya
Amazon
Samsung
Steam
Nvidea

Eight will enter, but only one will reign supreme.

Samsung has the clout and resources to make this work.

i think sony/ms/nintendo need to rethink their console business model if they want consoles to survive.

...listing the "cost of games" and "inconvenience" as impediments to console gaming for Console Skeptics...

cost of games is where smartphones are killing dedicated handhelds and it will be where all these other devices hurt consoles.   $60 is just simply a lot of money for a game and even if the competition's games are "worse" it's often times hard to understand that without actually playing the games.  ...but that stick shock of $60 vs. $1 is very very easy to comprehend.

consoles should, imo:

1. Self publishing is a great start but eliminate every roadblock between developement and selling.  Price control is a big one.  Picking your own release date is another.  I'm sure developers have other complaints and those should be taken very, very seriously.
2. reduce the royalty fees so that publishers/developers make more money.
3. with the more money for developers you've incentivized more development on your machine.  the more your machine does the more people will pay for it allowing console makers to keep their hardware prices "high".   basically, give up on the loss/lead strategy and make sure hardware is alway profitable.
4. make more money on subscription services like ps+ and xbl.  i think they could easily raise those prices to ~$80-100 a year especially if the average game price game down ~$10-20 a game.

this will, imo, look a lot more competitve to these new competitors.

They should aim higher and aim for the king not the peasant, what's the point of releasing a console that might sell 20mill top and having to replace it in 3 years?

VIDEO GAME CRASH 2015- 2016

Calling it now.

But seriously why micro consoles? Why so many now? Amazon, Samusung, google. Whats next Fucking UPS?

Samsung too? Ugh.

Andriod is the worst thing to happen which ruined our daily life so much and made addicted.

This is the beginning of the end folks :(

Too true.  Everyone thought that a basically free OS was the cure for smartphones.  All it cured was making cellphones profitably is gone.  Over time, very few companies will be able to compete with the chinese knock offs.  Wait till a few of these android consoles actually are sucessful.  The door will be open for some chinese manufacturer to sell a knockoff for nothing.  It sounds good at first, but if there is no money in it, there won't be support to keep making advancements. First party will dissapear...