Just look at the things they are making today, I counted all the Samsung products I owned. 2 LCD TV's 3 LCD Monitors, a fridge, a microwave, 4 mobile phones.
I'm telling you now. maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow... but someday Samsung will be creating a console and it will be competing with Sony & Microsoft
Just because a company designs many different hardware, doesn't necessarily mean that they're good at making a console. Often the console needs to be at least backed by some first party titles and that Samsung would need to pour a few million into game development and the acquisition of a gaming department.
The only new competitor I can think of joining the fray would be Apple and I still think its unlikely they would go into that.
I don't think it would be a good idea either, but you never know. When I first heard that Microsoft was going to make a console I thought it was joke. When I realized it was true I thought "pffft. Yeah, right. Good luck against Sony and Nintendo." My, how times have changed.
and make their own games? or just another platform getting released to expect third parties to develop for alongside PS3 and 360, and said third party titles being their only games?
yeah that sounds like something (a) any developer would want to do and (b) something i would like to buy
there be no new entrants into the console market as it exists today. it is far too established to fight against, the process of developing a competitive system with competitive release line-up is far too much work, and the profit margins for hardware are little to none to selling at a loss.
Nintendo doesn't count, huh? You remind me of the fanboys discounting the Wii because they are sore losers and don't want to admit that Nintendo steamrolled the competition in terms of hardware sales.
Nintendo doesn't count, huh? You remind me of the fanboys discounting the Wii because they are sore losers and don't want to admit that Nintendo steamrolled the competition in terms of hardware sales.
Who owns just a Wii aside from 8 year olds, MILFs and hardcore Nintendo fanboys?!
Nintendo are just a side choice alongside another console at the moment.
I don't want more consoles. I want less consoles. I want only one console, which every developer is welcome to produce software for. No more exclusive content, no more console wars, no more rivalry. UNITE!
Nintendo doesn't count, huh? You remind me of the fanboys discounting the Wii because they are sore losers and don't want to admit that Nintendo steamrolled the competition in terms of hardware sales.
Who owns just a Wii aside from 8 year olds, MILFs and hardcore Nintendo fanboys?!
Nintendo are just a side choice alongside another console at the moment.
Nintendo doesn't count, huh? You remind me of the fanboys discounting the Wii because they are sore losers and don't want to admit that Nintendo steamrolled the competition in terms of hardware sales.
Who owns just a Wii aside from 8 year olds, MILFs and hardcore Nintendo fanboys?!
Nintendo are just a side choice alongside another console at the moment.
...MILFs?
Mother I'd Like to Fuck...... or Midget International League Football..
Nintendo doesn't count, huh? You remind me of the fanboys discounting the Wii because they are sore losers and don't want to admit that Nintendo steamrolled the competition in terms of hardware sales.
Who owns just a Wii aside from 8 year olds, MILFs and hardcore Nintendo fanboys?!
Nintendo are just a side choice alongside another console at the moment.
I've seen some fanboys on this site, but man, you're a different league. :P
There are tons of companies that make a lot of money manufacturing popular electronics that we could all hypothetically say should get into video games, but making microwaves, TVs, etc. and creating and maintaining a video game platform are two very different things. Consoles like the Phillips CDi have already been mentioned in this thread and are great examples of this kind of idea going wrong. As you may know the 3DO is an example of Panasonic specifically manufacturing a console themselves and it turning into a disaster.
Well, I understand the acronym. I just didn't realize that MILFs were apparently one of the primary consumers for the Wii. You'd think the relative 'hotness' of a Mom wouldn't affect the probability of buying a Wii but I guess someone has insider information about such things.
@Rebirth1337: Well, I understand the acronym. I just didn't realize that MILFs were apparently one of the primary consumers for the Wii. You'd think the relative 'hotness' of a Mom wouldn't affect the probability of buying a Wii but I guess someone has insider information about such things.
Patrick Klepek is busy writing an article as we speak...!
Nintendo doesn't count, huh? You remind me of the fanboys discounting the Wii because they are sore losers and don't want to admit that Nintendo steamrolled the competition in terms of hardware sales.
Who owns just a Wii aside from 8 year olds, MILFs and hardcore Nintendo fanboys?!
Nintendo are just a side choice alongside another console at the moment.
I've seen some fanboys on this site, but man, you're a different league. :P
I'm not a fanboy at all, I just picked the alignment because I like my name being green.
Is that not true then? I know I sure as hell wouldn't want a Wii as my only console. I like Nintendo, hyped for the 3DS when it starts to get a library as great as the DS.
Nintendo doesn't count, huh? You remind me of the fanboys discounting the Wii because they are sore losers and don't want to admit that Nintendo steamrolled the competition in terms of hardware sales.
Who owns just a Wii aside from 8 year olds, MILFs and hardcore Nintendo fanboys?!
Nintendo are just a side choice alongside another console at the moment.
I've seen some fanboys on this site, but man, you're a different league. :P
I'm not a fanboy at all, I just picked the alignment because I like my name being green.Is that not true then? I know I sure as hell wouldn't want a Wii as my only console. I like Nintendo, hyped for the 3DS when it starts to get a library as great as the DS.
If I offended you, I apologize. But that comment you made was not ok. Next time just say you wouldn't have a Wii as your only console and your reasoning, then keep it at that.
The Samsung Galaxy plays games...therefore they are already involved in the games industry. They should never make a home console though...they don't have the resources.
The only company I could see creating a console except the current ones is Apple, and they don't seem very interested. It's a pretty expensive venture.
They are a fantastic hardware company but what will they have to offer from a software perspective? Don't forget how much money MS lost on the first Xbox. If it wasn't for Halo we might not even have the 360.
The only company I could see creating a console except the current ones is Apple, and they don't seem very interested. It's a pretty expensive venture.
I could see Google eventually doing some cloud based, Onlive type thing, like Steam but better, but not in the near future.
@DystopiaX: Yeah I guess. It's the same as Apple really, they have stupid amounts of cash to spend on just about anything, and they've been known to want a piece of every market. Perhaps Chrome Webstore, if it ever becomes something, will sort of morph into that. But as you say, not for some time. I think the bandwidth is still a good five years away in the US for it to become widely available and popular, which such a thing would kind of have to be.
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