In the first part of this analysis ("How Lack of Competitive Analysis, Nintendo Caused Blu-Ray's Victory"), Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group lamented the lack of competitive analysis organizations in technology companies and suggested that, had Toshiba properly gamed out what Sony was likely to do and applied that to its execution strategy, it likely would be on the winning side rather than the losing side right now.
In the second part, Enderle examines Toshiba's remaining assets and liabilities, and he suggests five choices Toshiba could do next for HD DVD to survive or even make a comeback.
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
On Amazon, you can't get an RTX 4090 for less than this one from Gigabyte, which now offers great value after an eye-catching April deal.
Riding on the backs of flying pigs.
This is the same fool that bashed Blu-ray in his previous article. LOL @ anyone who takes this 80 year old fanboy seriously.
They could invent a time machine, go back and fix the deal they had with the blu-ray folks for a unified hd media.
"In the second part, Enderle examines Toshiba’s remaining assets and liabilities, and he suggests five choices Toshiba could do next for HD DVD to survive or even make a comeback."
im sure toshiba's demographics and research and development teams have been waiting for this information so they could make a speech at CES.
what a self important insignificant douche.
I read his article, all of them are valid points but he missed out a major flaws. Do you actually think Sony going to sit there and letting Toshiba pulled all the stunts? Sure it's easy to say to go after this and that, but your major competitor is not taking a nap either.
This is like planning a attack regardless of what your enemy move is.