Maybe one of the most important developments in gaming history is getting ready to take place. Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) and Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) might be partnering to stream games via T.V using a service which would effectively bypass major gaming consoles. If this would happen (and it looks like it will) EA games would be available to Comcast subscribers. Gamers who use Comcast's service to play games will be able to use their tablets as controllers.
This deal has come about after wide talk about the inevitable decline of the home gaming console and this deal confronts that possibility head on. Moves are being made in high places in anticipation of video game console decline and this partnership will start the giant wheels turning. The bottom line here is that EA is ahead of its competition by diversifying beyond revenue from console gaming. This deal represents a brilliant key move for both EA and Comcast.
Cable is getting ready to die off so that the next generation of home entertainment can take over. The future of home entertainment can only be very similar to what EA and Comcast are doing with this partnership and others will surly follow. We all know by now that Xbox1 has chosen to take the T.V entertainment path with features that include watching T.V while playing video games and much, much more. Just maybe Microsoft had seen all this coming and created their next gen console based on a set-top-box concept for a very good reason. I don't know about you but I'm going to go take a look at how much EA stocks are going for because I just might pick up a few.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Playstation4 Sells 7 Million Units While Microsoft Remains Silent.
Sony has announced that the new Playstation4 console has sold over 7 million units. Keep in mind these figures do not include "shipped" units, only those which have already been sold. Meanwhile, Microsoft has remained silent and has failed to release even a peep of sales figures which points to the fact that they are hiding the numbers. Even with the release of the highly anticipated next-gen title Titanfall, XboxOne sales seem to be in a slump.
Microsoft has already been warned by their heavy and influential investors that the company has been making mistakes, too many in fact, that these same investors and/or stockholders feel rather uncomfortable, or better yet, damn worried about their investments in Microsoft considering Windows8 was a complete flop and the Microsoft gaming division has yet to turn a profit. These same investors and stockholders are holding very serious negotiations to have the Microsoft gaming division sold off so that Microsoft can focus more on what they were supposed to do to begin with..... make solid working software. Even this software business in now in danger with the advent of tablets and super sized smartphones which are rather rapidly making laptops and tabletops P.C's obsolete.
Even though Sony themselves have enough problems of their own it now seems that they are the clear winner of the next generation gaming console wars which puts them in a rather pleasant situation with their smiling investors. Which way will all this go? Please leave your comments below and let us know your take on these developments.
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