suyash1989

ohai Wrote:
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> Well, depends on what criteria you use, right? If
> you use four firm concentration, or that thing
> where you take the square of the market shares,
> what do you get?
>
> Obviously, there are high barriers to entry, since
> game developers are not going to spend a lot of
> money making games for your console before you get
> significant market share. You either need a
> platform that becomes popular for other reasons
> (iPhone), or a big company that is willing to take
> a huge initial loss to build their initial market
> share (Microsoft).
>
> Anyway, if you are using this for homework, you
> should probably change the wording a bit in case
> your teacher does Google search...


Thanks for your inputs Ohai. I was unable to think of other barriers apart from cost & expertise for this type of firm and I would change the wording if I was in college but am not unfortunately ;)