Games Inbox: Could Sony quit the games industry?
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Expect the unexpected. Although Xbox is the obvious choice to lose out next gen, if there’s only going to be Nintendo and one other, I don’t think people should be too quick to take that as a given. Remember that Microsoft is a vastly bigger company than Sony and they’ve poured so much money into Xbox at this point that I’m sure it’s become a sunk cost fallacy for them. That is, they think since they’ve spent this much, they shouldn’t stop now.
I think for Microsoft it’s just a waiting game. They can sit around and make money from Call Of Duty and the other Activision games, then when streaming is stable enough to go mainstream they’re going to totally dominate that tech and Sony won’t have a chance.
I don’t necessarily see that happening next gen but then I don’t know when Wi-Fi and whatever is suddenly going to become more reliable. I’m not saying it’s likely anytime soon, but I could easily imagine a future where PlayStation is pushed into third place and Sony just give up and leave the industry. Sounds implausible now but so did Xbox going multiformat a year or so ago.
