Sony should ditch console making. SEGA already learned it the hard way trying to put its Genesis console on life support - only to lose to Sony. What does SEGA do now? That's right, PC games - and pretty decent ones too.
SEGA actually killed the Genesis early to focus on Saturn, big mistake since nintendo kept the SNES going well into 1999 and kept bringing in the money as the low-cost option for people who couldn't afford a N64 and its overpriced games. Addons like the SegaCD and 32X were killed even earlier. By the time the Dreamcast showed up and SEGA finally had its shit together most people were already too soured to the brand to even care.
And as a third party publisher SEGA also dropped the ball several times, abandoning some of its most valuable franchises like Daytona and letting Sonic go from AAA flagship games to bullshit that gets churned out every year. It even had it own steam years before steam called seganet but they let it die.
But Sony can't afford to abandon consoles, its basically the playstation company now. It lost the music player and record industry to apple, portables to nintendo, its PC and smartphone divisions went nowhere, it invented the ereader then let amazon take it. Only thing they seem still competitive at is DSLR cameras which is a stagnant market at best. It makes parts for smartphones but any other company can do that, and many do.
SEGA had and still has tons of talented developers, studios and franchises, meanwhile Sony has relied on exclusivity deals since the og PSX, they were never a game company but a hardware one and that was one of the reasons why it avoided the console market for so long, since they had people on the inside working on consoles all the way back when the NES was new.
Fun fact: the PS1 was almost a SEGA console because the Sony leadership had so little faith on it they were offering it to SEGA and even willing to split the cost 50/50 in exchange for publishing rights.
Imagine if SEGA hadn't been retarded and had taken the offer...
The last console I had was a X360 but the vast majority of gamers are normies that can barely deal with on-launch updates let alone installs. Most people under 20 now have grown up with app stores wiping their ass for them so for them consoles are better than PCs because the later still require you to install things, like steam. They panic when that happens, I seen it.
