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Four Directions; Nintendo, Xbox, Sony (and PC)
Topic Started: May 22 2013, 02:09 AM (142 Views)
Scientific Tails
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With Microsoft going forward with Xbox into Multimedia Zone Act 2, it's pretty obvious that the three main console companies are defining themselves in very distinct ways.

The question is...do you approve?

Here's how I see it breaking down:

Xbox: multimedia (not surprising, we are talking about a computer company here)
Nintendo: innovation
Sony: hardcore gaming

The greater distinction between Xbox and Sony should simplify things, I would think. Now more will be happier with only getting the system which applies to their specific interest group. However...with more distinct markets, the companies have less relative competition, and with less competition...raised prices, anyone?

An interesting trade-off in my opinion. I still kinda like it, though, because I don't think I'll have to worry about games being on a platform that I don't own in the future. SEGA becoming Nintendo-exclusive makes more sense now.

Only one problem:

How does the PC factor in? I imagine its market looking more like this:

PC: Casual-SUPER HARDCORE gaming

Well, it'll be interesting to see where this all goes at any rate.
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I'm guessing the PC will be the lord of all gaming. XBox One is a stupid name, and no, it won't become our next Windows 8. Companies are now obsessed with taking the PC to the living room and I never understand why the heck do you need to do that.

Oh, Steam is doing the above as well. Well, PC maybe is based on a that kind of community that makes the PC games.. well, even more interesting...

Not sure, but SEGA sort of escaped an ill fate. Though if they make other games (like Episode III), they sure will release on XBox One as well so the complainers don't complain, though they have to deal with the forced DRM...


Let's hope the future isn't a future where companies control everything we own and can take them away from us whenever we wanted. This bad future must not happen.



By the way, did you make a reference to a band... just right now?
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I should add what is the fastest growing sector, and that is mobile gaming. The direction Apple and Google are headed is to make many different game types available on phones and tablets, while embracing non traditional types of revenue methods for games (Freenium games like Sonic Dash).
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AugieD
May 22 2013, 04:10 AM
I should add what is the fastest growing sector, and that is mobile gaming. The direction Apple and Google are headed is to make many different game types available on phones and tablets, while embracing non traditional types of revenue methods for games (Freenium games like Sonic Dash).
Well, I kinda felt that mobile gaming deserved its own thread, you know?

I'm kinda glad that there are such things as Amazon to subvert the mainstream Steam prices (even though they have to DRM through Steam), because Steam is the definition of a monopoly, and their prices reflect it.

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By the way, did you make a reference to a band... just right now?

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lol. I didn't try to, this isn't DDD, after all.
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Companies are becoming monstrous monopolies today, so I bet that sometime, these services will somehow force users to watch their actions or else they're banned off the respective services whether they paid thousands for them or not. Games are using Steam nowadays instead, and some boxed editions even require Steam.

Whatever, I wonder what direction the PC is taking now that DRM is getting more forced. Though I admit, the PC is the only platform capable of playing games from all times, from as far as DOS to our current generation. No console got the ability to do this.
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