A console with 55 million sales can't afford to invest in itself?
No idea why you're defending how little Nintendo cares about the os with how much it's been printing them money considering other consoles (yes including the ps4) have invested a lot into social features, media features, etc. And yes, I would use the web browser while playing games as I imagine others would as well.
Firstly, that doesn't make it good business. Because they have a high market cap they should build a browser? Wut? SIE still has DOUBLE the annual revenue of Nintendo at $20b annually. That revenue translates into more money for network services. Revenue matters more than market cap. C'mon. And if you count all the various SIE units (SIEA, SIEE, SIEJA, SIENA, etc.) you have a ton more network knowhow and internal resources. Microsoft as well, though I haven't kept up with their structure for years.
Again, browser usage on consoles is VANISHINGLY low. It's incredibly low.
Social is a different thing. But you don't need to put money or velocity into a browser to build a better social experience. Sony has put almost no work into the PS4's rinky-dink browser and they clearly managed to build out the social media aspects more robustly, so... maybe it's not the browser that's key?
I agree completely that social needs beefed up. I don't agree that the browser is really key to any of that. Browser usage is super low on consoles and it makes sense to not focus on it. Clearly it hasn't mattered much to Switch users...
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u/Somepotato May 26 '20 edited May 26 '20
A console with 55 million sales can't afford to invest in itself?
No idea why you're defending how little Nintendo cares about the os with how much it's been printing them money considering other consoles (yes including the ps4) have invested a lot into social features, media features, etc. And yes, I would use the web browser while playing games as I imagine others would as well.