In all seriousness and with no console warring faggotry...

In all seriousness and with no console warring faggotry, which company do you think will drop out of the console race first?

I'd say that Microsoft is most likely to leave first. Sony have captured most of the console market share and can likely ride on that for another generation (barring some of Sony's failures in other fields having a knock-on effect on their video game divisions). Nintendo have got their war chest, large stable of IPs and stubbornness keeping them going. Microsoft fucked up massively leading up to the reveal and launch of the Xbox One and haven't been able to truly recover since. Add in the fact that they've been "killing off" Xbox One exclusives in favour of having most of their games multiplatform in order to try and push W10 more, they're just kind of floundering around. Unless the Scorpio is a big success, it's likely that the Xbone will be the last Microsoft home gaming console.
Despite the bullshit Microsoft helped normalise in the gaming industry, the Xboxhueg and 360 had a lot of great games. It's disappointing to see how much they fucked up the Xbox One.

What do you think?

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>I'd say that Microsoft is most likely to leave first.
You really don't get how big Microsoft is do you?
They drawf sony and are happy to throw as much money at xbox as it needs.

Probably Microsoft

Agree with Microsoft. They seem to be taking the leave already with putting a lot of focus on making Windows 10 a gaming platform and with how many games aren't coming out on the Xbone. Their E3 presence this year is looking abysmal, like they don't have anything to show.

>throw money at xbox
Yet they're not. Sony has taken their thunder this year and Nintendo isn't going to give up what they're known for even if the Switch performs as poorly as the Wii U. If Sony can provide the same experience, for the same cost, with more incisive exclusives, then MS doesn't really seem to need to compete anymore.

Microsoft only because they're basically unifying windows and xbox
Sony will possible be next though I doubt that online money well will dry up

I'd say Microsoft too but I still don't think that's likely to happen.

>console race
There is no more console race Switch is a handheld/tablet, Scorpio is a locked down Windows 10 PC-lite, Sony is the only one still making home consoles.

Microsoft would be the obvious choice to drop out.

Nintendo and Sony are too invested.

MS

sony not only has western games, it still has its exclusive eastern shit that won't be on XB1 or is even JP only because XB1 doesn't sell games, so it will be on PS4 only

nintendo will always keep trying because they are nintendo and always want to innovate or just be that fun console anyone can play and enjoy.

all the XB exclusives are almost 99% western, any JP ones are dead or jumped ship. i mean, shit, 360 had fucking the core original FF staff and couldn't even use it at all besides lost odessy and blue dragon.

Nintendo, because they'll admit that their space is only in Handheld. And Exit the console space entirely when they lost the will to compete at a loss.

You might not like it, but it's the same with Apple. They might still sell computers, but they're a cellphone company. Nintendo stop being a console company ages ago. They just need to cut their loss and be done with it.

You're all idiots

Sony made $72M last year
Microsoft made $85.32 billion

Its like you've never looked into the history of why Microsoft made the xbox divistion and how little Sony actually likes its "gaming divition"

The PS4 is just a locked down PC too, though it doesn't run Windows. Home consoles are dead.

Sega

Honestly, it will probably be Sony, but not for a long time.

Who fucking cares how much money each company made individually. It's about the given facts and their positions in the gaming market at the time.

MS is backing out in favor of strengthening their PC market. This is why a majority of the Xbone games are also getting PC releases. If they had money to throw around to keep it relevant, they would be the ones stuffing the pockets of the yearly rehash companies to get timed exclusives, but that's Sony.

I don't even know why people keep thing this is a race anymore. Microsoft called this their last en as the Scorpio is ending their gen and Nintendo seems to have moved on from home consoles and are even using a Tetra chip. Why is console war/race still a thing?

Nintendo has no reason to exist if not for video games, and they'll go out of business before going third part, so they're not likely to drop out.

IDK about Sony's financial situation, but I thought they were doing really bad lately with the Playstation division being one of their few profitable divisions? Maybe if things get really bad for Sony, they'll go under and other corporations will buy various assets from their corpse. I think it'd be kinda funny if a Korean company like Samsung bought the Playstation division just to make netouyos/weebs butthurt. I don't think that's very likely though.

And I doubt Microsoft will drop out of the console race. They'll just keep changing their strategy until something works. Microsoft is hell bent on breaking out of the desktop/laptop market because that market is stagnating. They'll keep the Xbox division running at a loss if they have to in order to maintain a presence in the living room. If the Xbox does die, it'll be because Microsoft unified it so much with Windows that the Xbox is pretty much just a PC with an interface designed for controllers.

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Is Nintendo still worth more than Sony? Microsoft probably will not fund the Xbox for much longer. I can't see Sony getting out anytime soon since they are still coming out with exclusives. I can see Nintendo keeping hybrids like the Switch and I almost prefer that. Maybe Nintendo will step up with powerful hardware if Microsoft gives up.

>being this dumb

welp, theres no teaching some

It's not just a money issue, it's their investors. They want MS to dump everything that doesn't have to do with office software and only focus on that. They see Xbox, Bing et al. as nothing more than an albatross holding profits back.

What is the war chest meme coming from? Is it from that one I image that says nintendo can lose money for some amount of years and still be good? That's wrong

>They want MS to dump everything that doesn't have to do with office software and only focus on that.
I don't think that's true. From what I've heard, Nadella seems to care a lot about expanding Microsoft's market share outside of the desktop because mobile is slowly replacing the desktop. Or at least that's what he thinks.

The thing is, both Sony and Microsoft have other products that are non gaming related that they can fall back on, while Nintendo is purely gaming related. This could mean two things, either it means both Sony and MS could potentially drop out without becoming completely bankrupt, or that they are able to put more money gained from their other ventures Into their gaming division. Either way, I predict Microsoft will start drifting more into "Home Entertainment" and less into "Gaming".

You're right! MS is going to keep making Xbox consoles and risk huge losses of money instead of just converting people over to PCs and selling their more profitable OS every few years, them already converting people over by making their games available on both isn't proof enough.

And I'm the 'dumb' one.

Good thing the Scorpio runs Office now.

so MS has declared that they are leaving the console market?

link?

Greenberg: "I think it is. ... For us, we think the future is without console generations; we think that the ability to build a library, a community, to be able to iterate with the hardware -- we're making a pretty big bet on that with Project Scorpio. We're basically saying, "This isn't a new generation; everything you have continues forward and it works." We think of this as a family of devices."

engadget.com/2016/08/17/microsoft-aaron-greenberg-qa-project-scorpio-vr/

He's saying that the Xbox is going to be more like smartphones now, with more frequent hardware revisions and you can play games from all previous Xbox Ones. It's just going to be a slow revision over time instead of major changes every ~5-8 years.

that doesn't say something like "after scorpio comes out, no more console systems ever from MS"

that is what i want to hear, not vague shit that is interpreted by user or journalists only 1 fucking month after fucking E3

sega was damn clear that they were pulling out of the fucking console market, this isn't that.

>"For us, we think the future is without console generations"

Aka, they're getting out, they don't see themselves competing in the market anymore after Scorpio.

Fucking screencap this.

microsoft doesn't even release exclusives anymore and they still outsell nintendo consoles

This makes more sense then what I was stating.

True guess I read it wrong.

gut feeling right off the bat: Microsoft. Why make consoles when you can just make an OS for phones/computers? Also I've never owned a microsoft system and they've charged for internet services on console since I was in middle school.

>"For us, we think the future is without console generations"
>without console generations
>console generations

But the Scorpio is the start of that.

Microsoft has been fucking themselves hard, even with all their money and push for Windows and Xbox to come together. They're still going to focus on games but I see them putting more and more focus on Windows. I doubt they'll have a new console after Xbone, at least not without bleeding a lot of money.

Between Sony and Nintendo, I see Nintendo being more likely to drop out if the Switch turns out to be a bust, though given their past records, they aren't going to go down without a serious fight and they're sitting on a lot of IPs that they can exhaust to get them through.

>consoles

Nintendo. They've already given up and started their transition

Microsoft's game studios have lost all steam. They had a strong showing for the first 3 years of the 360, then went down the drain with Kinect and never recovered. Their first party studios are factories churning out the same game over and over, and they sell less and less. The Xbox has lost its reason to exist, and therefore they will leave.

Nintendo has fallen too far behind to catch up. Their new 'console' is a slightly more powerful portable Wii U, and the only third-party devs paying them attention are indie devs. The Switch will do a little better than the Wii U, but not much. Kimishima will probably rush a 3DS successor onto the market, but handhelds will be finally dead at that point, and they'll go third-party after long enough.

Sony is left to pretty much reign by default at this point. Their biggest threat was Valve's big Steam hardware initiative starting in 2013, but luckily for them Valve is incredibly lazy and gave up on everything but VR, which Sony is doing well in too. The PC and console markets are too separate at this point for one to threaten the other without a very direct and blatant push. Sony isn't going to so much win as the competition is failing.

Microsoft too, Xbox already started its transition with Onedrive now being on the Xbone and you can open Microsoft Offices directly on your Xbone. Xbone also has UWP apps and its games are made in UWP, Scorpio will have more UWP apps than the Xbone and Scorpio will also run a new UI coming to Windows 10 code named Project Neon which has Motion interface design Language as well as Cortana. Scorpio is literally a Windows 10 lite PC with features from the Xbox console.

Forgot to mention here the Xbox team is also now the entire Game Division within Microsoft meaning they are just one big team like Nintendo's EPD Division.

Scorpio is the only thing microsoft has going for them, they got FUCKED on exclusives, if I didn't have so many games for jewbox I would buy a ps4.

Nintendo already left the console market.

I'm inclined to agree with you. I remember getting the original Xbox as a kid to play Western RPGs and later had the 360 in college, which was a great machine as well.

Looking at the Xbox One there's no exclusive games to make me get it (beyond a shitty Halo), I've got a nice PC to play everything else.

See Scorpio is a Windows 10 PC, they are no longer separate entities.

>no console warring faggotry
>which company do you think will drop out of the console race first?

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Won't stop people from calling it a console or making anthro versions of it.

True, Microsoft like Nintendo will market as a console to the uneducated even though it's a locked down Windows 10 PC.

With the Switch being a Shield and the Scorpio being a Steam Machine can they really be considered consoles anymore?

From most likely to least likely I'd say Microsoft>Nintendo>Sony. The Xbone was a joke from the second it was announced. There is nothing selling it. Even the garbage unlosable QTE Ryse game got ported to PC. The only franchise Microsoft has that can sell a console is Halo, and that's somehow become even more generic ever since Bungie managed to escape their clutches. Nintendo has multiple fan favorite franchises and can crank out good games for them when they give a shit.

Nintendo's primary issue is they refuse to keep their hardware up to date and they keep shoving god awful gimmicks into every console. This scares off third party developers, especially since they know if someone's going to buy their AAA flavor of the month shitheap they already own a PC or PS4. They have no reason to risk their time and money on a Nintendo port. The only reason to buy a Nintendo console is for Nintendo games, which luckily, have managed to stay a good enough reason.

Sony is "alright" as far as consoles go, their fuck ups aren't substantial enough to scare casuals off and if you're going to be an idort peasant PS4 severely outclasses the Xbone for this generation. Honestly all Sony has to do is just not fuck up to stay on top of Microsoft and they'll be safe. But I don't trust them to manage that.

Final notes: All the consoles should die so casuals fuck off and the AAA manufacturing lines go bankrupt. If Nintendo goes the way of Sega and starts porting their games to PC nothing of value will be lost. Cancers like EA, Square-Enix, and Ubisoft won't be able to keep themselves afloat without console drones and would be forced to be good or die. You peasants are actually lowering the quality of games as a whole by existing.