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Game Industry Faces Adoption Challenges
The BBC reports that, while gaming continues to grow in popularity, the industry still faces numerous challenges in attracting new customers. From the article: "Although gaming is a huge industry, the report warned that turning a profit will become increasingly difficult. For players such as Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo the fact that the market is reaching saturation point coupled with the increasing costs of producing both games and consoles means profit margins may not be a big as they would like. "
For long term business survival, these links tell all.
y /history.html
http://www.nintendo.com/corp/history.jsp
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/Histor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
(I'm sure some one could point out a better link for MS history.) MS just hasn't been around a long time. For a computer company, they have and are large enough to survive anything except global war. Nintendo & Sony have both survived a WW. (Actually Nintendo made it through both WWI & WWII.)