Nintendo is the most valuable Japanese company. Profits, dividends, etc.

Exactly.  Not every game is an action game.  Turn based RPGs play just fine even with a little lag.  Adventure games and turn based strategy games also play just fine with a little lag.  But let me be even more specific than that: Elder Scrolls games play just fine even with some latency issues.  Fans can enjoy Elder Scrolls 6 just as much on xCloud as they can on a traditional console.

I even think there are some genres that would be better on a streaming service.  I am waiting for one of these big streaming services to develop their own hit battle royale game.  I bet these streaming services could handle battle royale games even better than the current way of doing things.

Agreed. Arcade games not work fine. 

I can't believe what I'm reading. This is investing 101. Dominant marketshare is what the biggest companies in the world have. As an investor you have both options of going long, in what will likely become a safe rising stock or make profit from selling the stock in the expansion period.

2) is completely wrong. Stock value is speculative and can rise even without profits a la Amazon, Tesla, Netflix etc. MS's stock price has doubled in a year. Has there profits doubled to cause this? Of course not. What a ridiculous assumption.

You're also wrong on Netflix. Netflix became a pioneer in an entirely transformed industry: digital content streaming, and it did it all while not making a single bit of profit. Same with Amazon, delving into e-Commerce or Tesla with the EV manufacturing industry. See a trend here.

Aggressive expansion and domination, requires debt and induces thin margins, margins that can easily be increased once they've become the dominant players after market stabilisation.

To put it more simply:

Sony is on track to break records in the videogame industry and achieve $25 billion revenue. Nintendo is at $11 billion. Sony can achieve similar profits at a measly 20% margin while Nintendo needs a near 50% to match this.

Its only going to get more lopsided in the future, as Playstation has massive leverage over third parties, whose revenue stream rely on PS.

Not even close. Toyota, Softbank, Sony are all more valuable.

Hahah, these posts are hilarious.  "This is investing 101."  LOL.  Here is actual investing 101: buy low, sell high.  That is investing 101.  Collect dividends which are based on profits.  That is also investing 101.  That's how investors make money.  What sort of thing do amatuer investors need to avoid?  Don't invest in a company just because it's big.  That's dumb.  If you make money just investing in big companies then it has more to do with luck than skill.  That is the third lesson of investing 101.  

There.  You just got schooled.  Now all you have to do is follow that advice and you won't lose your shirt.  It couldn't hurt you to look at some of Warren Buffet's advice either.  Basically he says to avoid short term speculation and invest in companies which will be profitable in the long term.  That's what makes stock value increase in the long term (i.e. over the course of several years.)

You also seem to have no clue how Netflix got started.  It didn't start out as a streaming company.  It started out renting movies through the mail.  Amazon also started out just selling books only online.  They started out as small businesses with high profit margins.  That's how they became so successful today.  High profit margins matter to investors.  Size?  Who cares.  It makes the company look impressive, but it doesn't help investors.  And in the long run the profitable businesses end up growing anyway.

Hilariously delusional.

Firstly, you're not readin what I wrote at all or misconstruing it. I never said invest in big companies, rather those with dominating marketshare or signs of it, as they lead to the biggest players.

Buy low, sell high is such shallow advice that's its something akin to what a 12 year old would say. This is below even amateur investing.

Yes I know how they both started. Again, learn to read. Amazon and Netflix did not become top SP stocks by continuing their original business. They entered or pioneered completely new sectors, and financed this venture and growth with aggressive debt and thin margins.

Well, all I can say is this.  I hope you get lucky and don't end up living in a box.

Many things are up in the air for this next gen.

If you are a believer in Switch is current gen then Switch either has a real chance to come close to PS4 (might even beat it in the longer tail) or has a chance to come close to PS4+XBONE.

If you are a believer in Switch is next gen then Switch has a massive head start and nothing short of a miracle will probably have XBOXS+PS5 > NS before NS is replaced.

Other than that nonsense, there are some real interesting changes and happening going on. For one, the Switch has been established as a wildly successful formula. Yet neither of the other two console makers seem interested in trying to compete with that (perhaps realizing that they probably can't and maintain their dedicated home console base).  Perhaps they are also realizing that the market for a hybrid is a very tricky one.  Nintendo has already released a Switch Lite.  When might they release a Switch Heavy?  I think it is entirely up in the air that a single Hybrid alone is competitive with a single Home Console or a single Handheld.

We are finally witnessing the transition to full digital offerings which I think potentially marks this next gen as the last gen that offers optical drive consoles. Both MS and SONY are playing that game slightly different. Microsoft's digital only offering is not only the cheapest but also the least powerful of the two, making it's optical offering the only way to play their games at full power. SONY on the other hand is just cutting their buy in price by 1/5 but still offering full power for the pure digital version. I'm not sure how other players will respond to this, but if I were paying full price up front and going digital I would prefer SONY's offering (this does not take into account games, this would be if all games 1st and 2nd party went to both).

However, there is another wrinkle here. MS is offering _very_ good value no interest monthly payment options to buy into either of the XBOXSs. Game Pass Ultimate costs $359.76 (USD) over the course of 24 months. Buying an XBOXSS on that plan saves nearly $60 on the total costs (599.76 vs 658.76). Buying an XBOXSX is much less so saving less than $20. Unless you plan to buy an XBOXS(S/X) and then sell it within 24 months you'd be practically crazy not to use the payment plan option (I know plenty will go traditional anyway, for many reasons, I know). Regardless of the savings to the player, MS is throwing money at this next gen for the first 24 months to fix the bad showing they've had the last couple years. The more people use the monthly payment plan the more up front losses per console MS has until the 24 months are up.  Of course MS has tons more money at their disposal than either of the other two combined.

For people who are interested in playing lots of games (current and next gen) at mainstream resolutions (4k is not yet mainstream imo) XBOXSS is a no brainer. 100 games right away, next gen MS Studio games as part of the package. I think many people could snap that up. Lower prices open up the market to more and more people. $299, payment plan or no, is Nintendo Switch territory. Of course Nintendo has the Switch Lite at even lower, however that is handheld only and has a different market.

I could say more about how I think the market is anything but stabilizing. The Switch is getting long in the tooth home console wise and due for a refresh there. If there is no Switch Pro, when will Switch 2 come and how many gens ahead will Nintendo be by the time PS6 and XBOX69420 comes out? Microsoft just bought a major studio owner that could, after current contracts play out, shift many people towards XBOXS for some exclusives. SONY could be in for a minor repeat of their PS3 where they are not in tune with where the market is and has to scramble to keep up. More and more gaming is happening _outside_ the handheld/console market. Tablets and Phones continue to erode the handheld/console market. Microsoft is the only real company pushing hard into that space, SONY is only just offering some of their 1st party onto the PC/tablet/phone. Nintendo slips further and further behind in online. Etc, etc.

Again, my conclusion is I don't think the market is stabilizing and I don't think anyone's foothold is assured.

FYI you got trolled hard by a joke account.
you can see 4 points recognising this :
1. getting personal
2. cherrypicking irrelevant data
3. ignoring your points
4. fanboying

Can't tell if he is trolling or in spin alley.  He talks like a pundit on some political TV show.  Then again, maybe all of those pundits are trolling too.

Anyway, if he is a troll, he didn't get me mad.  What he said was so ridiculous, I thought it was funny.