Summary
- Market research firm DFC Intelligence predicts Nintendo will be the “clear winner” when the next-generation of consoles arrives.
- It also claims that one of PlayStation or Xbox will “struggle massively”, claiming that the industr will only be able to support two successful consoles.
PlayStation and Xbox have been bitter rivals for quite some time, while Nintendo sits in the corner doing its own thing. That’s the way the industry has been ever since the Xbox 360/PS3 era, but time changes everything eventually, and the gaming industry landscape could alter greatly whenever the next generation of consoles arrives.
According to market research firm DFC Intelligence (thanks VGC), it believes that the industry is heading in a direction in which it will only be able to support two successful consoles, meaning one of the big three is going to end up suffering. DFC is pretty confident that it won’t be Nintendo though, as it projects the company’s next big system will be “the clear winner” in the industry for the foreseeable future.
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When PlayStation and Xbox get to releasing their next console, which DFC predicts will happen in 2027, one of them is going to “struggle massively”, while the other should be able to give Nintendo a run for its money.
Xbox Or PlayStation’s Next-Gen Consoles Will “Struggle Mightily”, Claims Analyst
“There isn’t room for more than two major console systems,” claims DFC. “Sony or Microsoft will struggle mightily in a distant third place – largely depending on which of those companies can gain early momentum.”
Before you go pointing fingers at Xbox, DFC also claims that it’s currently far too early to tell which platform will be the one suffering. DFC admits that PlayStation has an already established player base, and therefore an advantage, but that the price of each system (we know PlayStation likes to charge an arm and a leg now), when they launch, and their potential portability will also factor greatly.
DFC states that while the Xbox Series X is clearly a failure of a console, Microsoft’s recent acquisitions have made it the largest gaming publisher on the planet, which is nothing to sniff at. Xbox has a bunch of games scheduled to launch in 2025, such as The Outer Worlds 2, Doom: The Dark Ages, Avowed, South of Midnight, and more, so who knows what could happen if it actually manages to establish a consistent pipeline of games.
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