Poll: Console Race
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Nintendo in my opinion, they just don't seem to have the bigger games like Sony and Microsoft do. I'm gonna say the WiiU won't sell as much as they Wii and from there it would decline.
The Wii was a raging success no matter how you look at it. Nintendo must be rolling in cash. Unlike Sony and MS, Nin was the only company to make profits on every console sold. MS and Sony got there eventually, but really, both of those companies aren't really gaming companies. MS is, of course, mostly a software company while Sony has it's hands in all kinds of business - apparently they make most of their money from Insurance.
Therefore, MS and Sony I think are in the business not so much for money (though that is important) but for advertisement, basically. Advertise their name, their brand. Familiarity breeds trust.
Nintendo, though? I'm pretty sure they are a gaming company first and foremost, so they can't drop out. They drop out, that means they went bankrupt. So Nintendo is most likely to fight tooth and nail to stay in the biz.
Therefore, MS and Sony I think are in the business not so much for money (though that is important) but for advertisement, basically. Advertise their name, their brand. Familiarity breeds trust.
Nintendo, though? I'm pretty sure they are a gaming company first and foremost, so they can't drop out. They drop out, that means they went bankrupt. So Nintendo is most likely to fight tooth and nail to stay in the biz.
Hopefully none but if I had to pick one then I'd say Sony purely from a financial viewpoint.Sony's Playstation division has been haemorrhaging money for years now.They posted losses of something like $2.6 billion for the last financial year which accounted for around half of the overall losses posted by the Sony corporation and played a large part in Sonys decision to axe 10,000 jobs worldwide
I would like to say Nintendo because it looks like they are headed that way, however Nintendo has a remarkable ability to keep themselves alive, probably even more so than Sony and Microsoft. Nintendo has won every single handheld battle... ever.
I need to see more of the next gen before I can make any kind of prediction on which company (Microsoft or Sony) will be more likely to bow out.
I need to see more of the next gen before I can make any kind of prediction on which company (Microsoft or Sony) will be more likely to bow out.
I think consoles will be obsolete before any of those companies drop out. The current systems are essentially cheap pcs. I love my 360 but I'll probably just pony up for some pc upgrades instead of shelling 500-600 for a new console. Nintendo and Sony have the handheld market so I guess those have some staying power.
Sony will just stop entirely, Microsoft will be making a retarded computer media center that is mostly used for Nexflix or other steaming sites and just so happens to play games, and Nintendo will be making games for kids and casuals and actually be the closest one to gaming.
Nintendo are doomed, although not for another 20 years.. The children that are now growing up with the Wii, as they get older will find the lack of "mature" games on the Wii annoying and move on..eventually when/if they marry and when/if they reproduce and their offspring want a game these now semi-responsible adults will choose the console they remember with fondness(or indeed the one they still have) for these kids to use. Which won't be Nintendo, thus the company will fall
Sony or MS because games are only a small portion of their business, Nintendo on the other hand is just about games, best games on their console are their own, and while I might not partake in their fandom the masses that do will not stop throwing money at them any time soon.
Either that, or new kids will replace the old ones with new, kid-friendly consoles, because adults don't want their children to be playing blood, guts, nudes, swears and bullets until they are older? And none of the people growing up with the Wii/WiiU will think "Man, Nintendo is amazing!" and none of them will stay with Nintendo through thick and thin, like the first, second, third, and possibly fourth generation did?realist1990 said:
OT: Sony, purely because of how much the PS3, PSP, and PSVita have been costing them, and how much the possible successor to the PS3 will cost them.
I think there should be an option to say that all of them will drop out. Development costs for triple A games are bloating by the year and the video game industry is set to take a massive nose dive in my opinion and that of many others. I see the whole damn thing collapsing in on itself and the big three of today going the way of the big three of yesteryear, or the big three that came before them.
These things all go in cycles, boom and bust, and I feel we're headed for a bust, and after it wears off, we'll have a new big three console juggernauts.
These things all go in cycles, boom and bust, and I feel we're headed for a bust, and after it wears off, we'll have a new big three console juggernauts.
For the record though, I see Sony dropping out first. Nintendo is stuck nailed and riveted to what they do, for whatever that is worth, but Sony has in the past shown itself as perfectly willing to totally abandon something that just isn't working out for them.
Microsoft next, obviously, but only after they've bled billions trying desperately to dominate the market even as the market implodes.
Microsoft next, obviously, but only after they've bled billions trying desperately to dominate the market even as the market implodes.
I guessing Sony, I heard they made a lost in profit this year and their attempt at the portable console market had always and still is a flop (e.g. the PSP Go).
Microsoft, because it'd be the worst possible decision they could make as a business, and lately it seems like they're intent on purposely destroying their entire company (I'm looking at you Windows 8).
They also seem to be going for this whole gaming singularity thing, which has the potential to make an Xbox redundant if you can just play games from your PC. I give it two more generations.
They also seem to be going for this whole gaming singularity thing, which has the potential to make an Xbox redundant if you can just play games from your PC. I give it two more generations.
Sony would be the first to go probably, though they are the last I'd want to see leaving.
PSP, Vita and PS3. All better products than the competition, yet they still end up last, selling the least, because quality simply costs more. The vast majority of consumers simply go for the cheapest device that also works adequately.
Nintendo are the most succesful of the three and they have nowhere else to go anyway. Not going anywhere.
Microsoft are in 2nd place, cheap console(360) to PC ports fit into their Windows strategy and even if they didn't make much money from game licences, M$ can burn money anyway. Not leaving soon.
Sony it is. Playstation is just one small facet of Sony and it's not doing so well.
PSP, Vita and PS3. All better products than the competition, yet they still end up last, selling the least, because quality simply costs more. The vast majority of consumers simply go for the cheapest device that also works adequately.
Nintendo are the most succesful of the three and they have nowhere else to go anyway. Not going anywhere.
Microsoft are in 2nd place, cheap console(360) to PC ports fit into their Windows strategy and even if they didn't make much money from game licences, M$ can burn money anyway. Not leaving soon.
Sony it is. Playstation is just one small facet of Sony and it's not doing so well.
I could never see Nintendo dropping out, no matter how much criticism they have gotten they end up making the most successful console. Regardless what people may think of the wii, it did revolutionize gaming and it was the most sold console up until very recently. I think Microsoft will be the first company to back out. And by back out I mean turn the Xbox into an all in one media center where it's no longer a gaming console but they provide your cable television package and everything. Sony doesn't seem like they want to get out just yet, but in my opinion it'll be Microsoft, then Sony and then Nintendo, if they ever decide to quit.
Certainly not Nintendo, I'll tell you that much. Their entire revenue is generated from gaming, whether it's from their games, their handhelds or their consoles; it's all from the gaming market. If the Wii-U bottoms out like everyone expects it to then they'll simply make their next console better, they won't drop out, they won't make nearly as much money if they dropped their console; they simply can't afford it.
Sony will probably drop before Microsoft. That's just a feeling though.
Sony will probably drop before Microsoft. That's just a feeling though.
Microsoft are already barely in the console race. THe xbox 360 has been pushed more towards a media box rather than a gaming console and i imagine that we will get more of the same in the next gen with them just pushing whatever there new version of the kinect will be. Sony aren't doing particularly well as a company at the moment, so I don't know if they will have to drop out due to financial problems. I would say that Nintendo will be last console standing unless something like the steam box ever happens.
Actually Sony has made an overall loss for the last 5 years. They said that was down to their tv section not being as successful as they'd hoped though.Scarim Coral said: