Jumping the gun?

According to some video game industry analysts, because of the growth in cloud gaming, the next Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox will be the last specialised consoles released by either company. They predict that they will eventually be superseded by cloud enabled devices. Video games are a global industry. What this article does not take into account is that this will depend on adequate cloud computing infrastructure being available to support it.

According to research by the Gartner group, the uptake of cloud networks around the world is sporadic. The average lifespan of a games console is five years. It will be years before cloud computing is widespread enough to support cloud based video games devices on a global basis. In my view, these predictions are somewhat premature.

https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/cloud-adoption-where-does-your-country-rank/

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/next-playstation-and-xbox-could-be-the-last-specialty-consoles-thanks-to-cloudgaming-revolution/news-story/5109ba438c09bcdb7882741934c89df2

The world's coolest marsupial

When Sega discontinued its hardware business to concentrate on software development, the unthinkable happened. It joined forces with its former rival, and released Sonic the Hedgehog games on Nintendo consoles. Sonic was originally created as a hipper, cooler rival character to Nintendo's Super Mario.

This isn't quite the same situation, but in today's Nintendo Direct, it was announced that The Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy will be released on the Nintendo Switch. Crash Bandicoot used to be a mascot for PlayStation. Things have changed since an actor dressed in a Crash Bandicoot costume taunted Nintendo outside their American head office in a 1996 television advertisement, shown here in glorious NTSC, and 4:3 aspect ratio.

https://press-start.com.au/news/nintendo/2018/03/09/crash-bandicoot-trilogy-coming-nintendo-switch/