Luisraul924
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I am not that concerned about that. The Playstation brand is healthy. If they spun it off from Sony, it won't suddenly die off. Besides, there is a lot more to the gaming industry than Xbox and Playstation: Nintendo, Steam, Origin, the iOS app store, and Google Play are major players, and Amazon is trying to get into the game as well. There is a ton of competition.
Smartphone/tablet games are hardly a competitor to console gaming. Nintendo themselves (despite going through their own financial trouble) have stated that they aren't competing with high end hardware gaming. The Wii U will never have those bleeding edge graphical games that X1 and PS4 have (the Titanfalls and Uncharteds of gaming) and while steam and origin, or PC gaming in general can be technically superior to the high end consoles, there are cases where consoles still get awesome exclusives (Forza and Halo series) that the PC doesn't. Even for the good titles that are on PC, multiplayer will never be as good as Xbox Live and PSN the population just isn't there. I remember buying Titanfall for both X1 and PC and even with Respawn's various matchmaking optimizations it would always take drastically much longer to find a game on PC than it did on X1. Not very many people game on PC's anymore, or if they do they sure do a good job of avoiding me lol. The console gaming market is still huge, and I mean huge. That leaves PS4 vs X1. In a theoretical scenario where PlayStation changes management and it affects the service negatively, there will perhaps be a mass exodus to X1 which would be great for matchmaking and such but by the end of this generation there will probably be a slowing of innovation from Microsoft. Which isn't always bad because there are only so many features you can add to the X1 but if that sluggishness bleeds into the next generation.... Not good