Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-665531-20130908012700/@comment-32656-20130911075026

You're not going to see a cable or phone company actually making an attempt to get into the market - runs counter to their primary business. These companies aren't exactly doing all that well, either.

Even with Nokia and the N-Gauge, it was primarily a phone. Cost twice as much, and did both of its objectives poorly? Not going to fly. They saw an "opening" - which Sony did later show existed - and failed miserably. With Sega around atl, I don't even see them trying. (On another note - where is Sega's handhelds? The Game Gear did come out prior to/around the PoD, after all)

Can't see Hasbro doing it, either. No profits in it.

The Phillips console was a failure, and that was obvious right away. That the company kept it around was more not wanting to admit it than anything else. It's more or less the same concept as Blueray and HD DVD, just with this "HD DVD" kept in production despite no support from anyone or reasonable sales levels for a decade. Large financial losses as well, mind.

Mattel lost so much money on the Intellivision and other related products that there is no way they'd try again. In 1983, it was a 300 million dollar loss they had to write off because of this - 700 million or so in today's dollars. Just about sank the company. Their failed business venture with Nintendo after that would have made it worse. Heck, Mattel had to have the division in question liquidated it did so badly.

Overall, you will see more consoles/handhelds out there - heck, companies still try today, though these fail spectacularly. But unless it it's a major tech company, with fingers in many pies - ala~ Sony and Microsoft - it's not going to work. Remember, too, the massive losses Microsoft took at first, and the massive expense it took to get that thing off the ground. For a new gaming system to work, you need that, and game developers already on call.