Since the writing of the Electronic Arts Case the Sony Playstation 3 and the Nintendo Wii have been released and both have online gaming capabilities. What’s your assessment of the current online gaming market?
The current online gaming market is not only a huge and growing market segment but comes with tremendous profit potential. For this reason, we have seen Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo jump into the industry that has largely been dominated by the PC by offering online capabilities with their consoles. While each console and PC has their advantages and disadvantages, it is clear that the PC is still the market leader because of games like World of Warcraft and Second Life. With that being said, the success of a particular console is correlated with the success of the online games it carries. Examples of these successes are Microsoft with the Halo series and Playstation with Final Fantasy. Moving forward, I think the mark of truly great games will be determined by how well they perform in the online environment.
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I agree. You see almost all games released on the Xbox 360 or PS3 platform have some sort of online component. It's definitely becoming an expectation for games to have an online component.
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