Buying out other console manufacturers

[DRuffles]

I am seeing some of the other console manufacturers available to purchase such as Mintendu and Pony. I’m curious what happens when you own a company that’s also making consoles and if it’s worth it?

[joeball123]

Unless you selected the "subsidiaries keep own consoles" option in game setup, buying out a competitor who has a console will remove that console from the market and prevent that competitor from releasing any future consoles that it may be slated to produce. As the game does not actually model a competitive market for consoles, this does little or nothing to help your own platforms, and if any of this competitor's current or future platforms were among the largest by active users then this may actually hurt your game revenues since the competitor's user base effectively just disappears.

Other than that, console manufacturers are not particularly better or worse as subsidiaries than any other publisher or developer of similar rating and value.

[JD_Mortal]

Unfortunately the game is not actually a "simulator" and 90% of the generated "stuff", is just generated fake stuff. (Created with values it didn't earn and have no real impact other than being some "thing" to try and surpass at some point.)

Case in point...

The PC with hardware level 8, which doesn't even exist yet, climbs to the top without more than a few "game sales". Same with most consoles. People are buying billions of dollars worth of them, without a single game made for them, or only a few garbage games sold for them.

Yet, your own system, which can have 50 games with a 98% rating, will only get a 5% market share and struggle with sales. Even if you drop the price down to being $1 and fully cost optimized.

I put that in the suggestions...

Platforms and developers should ALL have a matching "reason" for existing at any specific level. Even if that level is fake, it would at-least be justified. (Fake, as in, creating games that were never actually "made", which were used to make the platforms GET to the positions they were at. Kindly staying only just a bit above YOU, until they reach that "peak point in history". Then the game would pull-back and depend on "real creations". Ones that would favor YOU if YOU were actually better, at that point.)

So, if a company console was still "in the market", I don't think YOU would get any real returns from it. Even if you did, they would be marginal, since it wasn't ACTUAL success that made them number-1, it was a programmed script that just said, "You are #1 now".

[JD_Mortal]

Have you looked at a subsidies games?

Fly runner 1
Fly runner 2 (sequal)
Fly runner 3 (sequal)
Fly runner 4 (sequal)
Fly runner 4 pro (spin-off)
Fly runner 4 pro 2 (sequal)
Blue frog spiders 1
Time cat 1
Fly runner 5 (sequal)
Fly runner 6 (sequal)

Average game rating 15%
Number of hits: 1 (Time cat 1)

NOTE: "Time cat 1" was a game YOU made for them, on a commision job, they wanted a 15% grade, but you really wanted those last stars for "Action" and "Platform" and "Time Travel" and "Cats", when you made a kids game, which was "done" and magically hit an 80% score. (Yet the games AI didn't make a sequal to that, because it actually can't. Because it didn't make it, it was "given". And they didn't "learn anything" from having it made for them.)

Somehow they paid you $12 for that game and had a fanbase of 41-million... Yet they only made garbage games and produced 4 good games from you, before you changed to another company that paid more.