Owning a Next Generation gaming console is every gamer’s wish nowadays. With the launch of PlayStation 4, anyone can smell a war between Sony and Microsoft in near future. Experts and analysts believe that there will be a sheer increase in the sale of PlayStation 4. According to a careful estimate, 49 million consoles of Sony are expected to be sold out in the next five years. The figure will break the record of Microsoft Xbox One’s 38 million sales. The expert opinions look good and healthy for Sony as the price of one PlayStation 4 is minimum $400. The situation is an alarm for Apple too as the company threatened the gaming console manufacturers with 48 million sales of iPads and iPhones. Many of the gamers turned towards iPhones for playing games.
There was a time when Nintendo Wii was all over the minds of gamers and the iPhones were in the labs of Apple. The raging success of Wii made the other big guns of the industry to produce something extraordinary for the gamers. In short Sony and Microsoft started getting ready to give something better than the Wii. But due to the increase in sales of smart phones and tablets, it has become difficult for the console makers to reach new sale milestones. Experts believe that PlayStation and Xbox will be the last of their kind.
It is believed that the only the game enthusiasts buy the consoles at the time of launch, whereas the casual gamers wait and think a lot before buying a console. The first few months after the launch are crucial to the business and success of any gaming console. The only reason behind game geeks buying the new consoles is better quality graphics and game play which obviously is somewhat inevitable for the mobile phones and tablets to provide the gamers with.
Kristian Segerstrale, an ex executive of electronic Arts says that mobile phones only occupy a short portion of games as those are short duration and casual. For an epic game play, the gamers need wither an Xbox or a PlayStation.
It is true that people today think twice before spending on consoles as a $500 investment on iPad and iPhone as compared to Xbox and Play Station has many other daily usage functions. Now that’s the only reason behind the downfall in prices of gaming consoles.
The competition is getting tough for the tycoons of Game Developers Industry. Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Bethesda and Activision all are tensed about the future of the industry as trillions of dollars have been invested in the industry. They try to temp the gamers in every possible way to make them buy the new console games but the question is for how long it will continue?
From the beginning of 2013, Sony and Microsoft are in a fierce war with each other. The competition has got tough with the launch of Play Station 4 now. Xbox One was described by the company as the entertainment hub, while the PlayStation 4 is pitched as all about gamers.
Electronic Art’s CE Andrew Wilson is very optimistic about the future of consoles. He said that the launch of next generation gaming consoles is enough to realize the dynamic and diverseness of the industry. It is a fact that the console manufacturers are working very hard on their consoles in order to enhance the sales as much as possible. The companies are pretty confident about the next seven to eight years. They foresee a safe and reliable future of their products.
An important factor about the gaming industry is that the buyers are getting more and more conscious before buying any new game. They consider the console’s first, so the game developers are totally dependant on the console developers. On the contrary, the mobile game developer’s are enjoying a robust and smooth business. Some popular mobile game developers aren’t interested in launching their games for the Xbox and Play Station. They think that game developers of consoles are soon coming to the mobile industry.
Perhaps the idea of dedicated gaming experience in one’s living room is becoming obsolete with the passage of time. Mobiles allow the players to play the games anywhere and anytime. Undoubtedly, people are getting used to this attitude quickly.
Both of the console developers Microsoft and Sony are big stakeholders in the smartphone industry too, albeit they aren’t as vast as Apple and Samsung.
Both of the console makers are using their mobile industry presence in a way to enhance their outreach. Microsoft and Sony have launched their apps for console gamers to maintain an interaction with the gamer community from around the globe. The companies have also focused on digital games for quite some time now. For instance, PlayStation 4 has a Facebook kind news screen to let the gamers connect with each other. Experts have predicted that the sale of console games will drop by 37 percent till 2017. The assessment has been made by keeping in mind the competition of console games with free mobile games. The analysis is that Sony and Microsoft have to bring something out-of-the-box in the layout or hardware of the consoles to save the future of next generation gaming platforms.
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