8th Generation Consoles

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft have already basically confirmed they will be returning in the 8th generation, but do you think any new companies will venture into the fray? Or any returning veterans?

If your opinion isn't listed in the poll, please post which company your money is on.

I don't see anyone returning or entering.

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft have already basically confirmed they will be returning in the 8th generation, but do you think any new companies will venture into the fray? Or any returning veterans?

If your opinion isn't listed in the poll, please post which company your money is on.

Crumblet

I don't see anyone returning or entering.

Snagal123

[QUOTE="Snagal123"]

I don't see anyone returning or entering.

Joseph-425

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WARNING: Click that link at your own risk. Seriously.

I see everything staying the same.

I don't see any of them entering.

The console market is a great moneymaker if you have software to back it whether it be Xbox Live, or the Mario franchise.

I just think at this point in time the market won't allow someone to come in. Not because there's no room for more, but because the cost of entry is just so high.

I think if anyone wants to get in it'll have to be through different routes such as Apple did with their phones.

No one is entering and no one is leaving.

I don't think the market can bear a fourth console. I don't believe that has ever happened in my lifetime. I'm mildly surprised that three consoled have been commercially viable for 3 consecutive generations.

I could see an EA or Activision/Blizzard console.Head_of_games

I don't think so. They'd lose a lot of sales if they really wanted to make it successful. Especially EA. It would sell, sure, but they make so much money as a third party developer, they'd be mad to risk their position in the gaming industry or the financial loss of a failed system.

Patcher says it takes up to a billion dollars to crack into the console market (or at least thats how much MS had to sink just to compete).

Very few companies have that kind of spare coin not to mention the connections with the electronic industry.

I didn't see Panasonic re-entering the games industry until they announced that wierd handheld yesterday - so I guess anything is possible....

Its a oligopoly (yay I used my econ skills lol)

I don't think the market can bear a fourth console. I don't believe that has ever happened in my lifetime. I'm mildly surprised that three consoled have been commercially viable for 3 consecutive generations.

sayyy-gaa

There were four consoles in the 5th and 6th generations, so you'd have to be pretty young not to be around then :lol:.

[QUOTE="sayyy-gaa"]

I don't think the market can bear a fourth console. I don't believe that has ever happened in my lifetime. I'm mildly surprised that three consoled have been commercially viable for 3 consecutive generations.

There were four consoles in the 5th and 6th generations, so you'd have to be pretty young not to be around then :lol:.

[QUOTE="Head_of_games"]I could see an EA or Activision/Blizzard console.Blade8Aus

I don't think so. They'd lose a lot of sales if they really wanted to make it successful. Especially EA. It would sell, sure, but they make so much money as a third party developer, they'd be mad to risk their position in the gaming industry or the financial loss of a failed system.

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft have already basically confirmed they will be returning in the 8th generation, but do you think any new companies will venture into the fray? Or any returning veterans?

If your opinion isn't listed in the poll, please post which company your money is on.

Crumblet

better be Sega dangit.

People are delusional from reminising for picking Sega.

Did the market bear those consoles, i.e. were they commercially viable?sayyy-gaa

Sure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_generation_consoles#Comparison

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_game_consoles_(fifth_generation)#Comparison

better be Sega dangit.

Scoob64

Same here, I'd totally buy a new SEGA console :D.

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I don't see any of them entering.

The console market is a great moneymaker if you have software to back it whether it be Xbox Live, or the Mario franchise.

I just think at this point in time the market won't allow someone to come in. Not because there's no room for more, but because the cost of entry is just so high.

I think if anyone wants to get in it'll have to be through different routes such as Apple did with their phones.

Raymundo_Manuel

*squint* your purple text hurts my eyes man.

No one is entering and no one is leaving.

Silverbond

Three companies would normally be unsustainable (i.e. colossal failure that was Gamecube), but the Wii has managed to different enough and appealling enough to stomp the other two companies. This made it easier for people to justify owning multiple consoles, instead of latching onto a single one. If the next generation has three consoles as similiar as I expect, one of the companies is going to tank. It'll be three similiar consoles with motion controls.

Three companies would normally be unsustainable (i.e. colossal failure that was Gamecube), but the Wii has managed to different enough and appealling enough to stomp the other two companies. This made it easier for people to justify owning multiple consoles, instead of latching onto a single one. If the next generation has three consoles as similiar as I expect, one of the companies is going to tank. It'll be three similiar consoles with motion controls.

hellhund

Colossal failure that was Gamecube? It was only 2 million behind the Xbox in sales:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_generation_consoles#Worldwide_sales_standings

And three companies are normally sustainable. There has never been fewer than three companies competing at any given time.

[QUOTE="hellhund"]

Three companies would normally be unsustainable (i.e. colossal failure that was Gamecube), but the Wii has managed to different enough and appealling enough to stomp the other two companies. This made it easier for people to justify owning multiple consoles, instead of latching onto a single one. If the next generation has three consoles as similiar as I expect, one of the companies is going to tank. It'll be three similiar consoles with motion controls.

Crumblet

Colossal failure that was Gamecube? It was only 2 million behind the Xbox in sales:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_generation_consoles#Worldwide_sales_standings

And three companies are normally sustainable. There has never been fewer than three companies competing at any given time.

And the numbers would've been worse if not for the extra million sold dirt cheap once they stopped being manufactured. You could pick them up for pocket change.