Who will manufacture the consoles now

Do you remember those non-tan-lejanos times in which the video game scene was a real field planted with pots, each with its characteristics, its catalogs and its peculiarities? Only in the 1990s there were 32 different consoles in the market… And that without counting the laptops! But the times have changed, and that park diminishes dangerously to approach a point where we possibly only have a console with our own hardware before us.

To content. The news that has made the most veteran fans to get the beards have come directly from Sony’s senior vice president: Sadahiko Hayakawa states that are gradually changing their video game business of a hardware -centered model “to a model that expands the community and increases interaction.” Hayawaka says that all Sony is reorienting “creation” rather than the device factory, since games, music and cinema have ended up adding 60% of the company’s total benefits.

The manager has mentioned the recent purchase from Bandai Namco As an example of this reorientation in the search, for example, of profitable IPS.

It has been seeing. Sony has been launching signs that point by steps in this direction for a while. The clearest, the launch of ‘2’ Helldivers in Xbox Series X and S A year after his arrival exclusively to PS5 and that of ‘Lego Horizon Adventures’ on Switch. The purchase of Bandai Namco also points in that direction: franchises such as ‘Dragon Ball’ are too juicy (and universal) and to limit the potential millionaire bemnefits with an exclusivity.

It is sought. Another sign of this change is the Rumors linked to a work offer in PlayStation About the games will be carried at PC in just six months after their departure in PlayStation. If so, titles such as ‘Death Stranding 2’ would be in PlayStation before the end of the year. Finally, there has been job offers In search of multiplatform development directors and accounts management in which, literally, “design and execute a global commercial roadmap that expands the PlayStation Studios titles beyond the limits of the hardware of the company itself.”

Xbox was first. Sony and Microsoft are going to par, and Microsoft has taken much more determined steps in that direction: Xbox emblematic games such as’ Gears of War ‘,’ Forza Horizon 5 ‘E’ Indian With excellent sales results (Seven of the twenty best -selling games in PlayStation They are Xbox properties). Have expressly spoken of give up permanent exclusivities. And his slogan “Play wherever you want “ It could not be clearer: Xbox’s future intention is to sell a platform, not a machine.

Nintendo to yours. The only one that remains unperturbed to events is Nintendo, and has achieved it with a strategy that they explain GREATED OUR COMPANIONS OF LIFEXTRA: Game prices do not change. It doesn’t matter if you buy the new ‘Mario Kart’ the departure day or a year later, they will cost the same. Punishment for late? It may be, but above all, a prize for those who arrive first, who are going to play longer for the same price. And so, the sales of the games from day one have multiplied, which has strengthened the company’s bases and has strengthened it in the economic. Nintendo can allow you to be the only one in the patio, you do not need to beg for other systems.

The million dollar question. Obviously it is … Who will manufacture the consoles now? And the answer is evident: nobody. The future is from the cloudand in that sense Xbox is betting all its chips. As they claim, Game Pass is leaving profitablerather than selling games in boxes, and one of the most powerful aspects of the subscription is to be able to run its titles on any screen. If PlayStation also launches something like that (not necessarily with its own platform, but generating material for others), we can be before the death sentence not only of the physical format, but directly from traditional consoles.

A confusing future. Nothing screams more “transition stage” than this was that we have had to live. From Microsoft literally disintegrating all the possibilities that we see a new box called “Xbox” to Nintendo remaining faithful to its screens, its franchises and its prices, through a Sony that enters a phase of change confessed, it is difficult to predict what the future will bring us. It is clear that there will be more screens than ever. What is not clear is what they will be plugged in.

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