One of my former passions in life, was video games and more specifically, Sega video games.
Sega had an amazing library of games but their consoles after the Master System (Genesis/Mega Drive, Saturn, Dreamcast) all had inferior specs to what the competition was putting out. In particular, their processors felt a generation or so behind what either Nintendo or Sony released.
Sega's position at a time was very similar to Canon's current position. Market leaders, market innovators with a core client base that was heavily invested emotionally and financially.
When Sony in particular released the PlayStation, their initial market was the casual gamer. The release of Final Fantasy 7 effectively killed the Sega console era as hardcore gamers, formerly dedicated Sega or Nintendo users, then bought Sony.
Then it happened. Sega decided to withdraw from the console market and become "system agnostic", developing their games across any and all platforms.
Today I'm a Canon man and I'm experiencing a sense of deja vu.
Casual users are investing more and more in other brands and dedicated Canonistas are no longer just considering other systems but are actually buying them. 3rd party manufacturers are clearly recognising the need to use Canon lenses on other systems, hence the emergence of Metabones adaptors and so on.
I'm beginning to wonder if history will repeat itself and I'll watch Canon driven to essentially become a lens and peripheral manufacturer for other brands.
Just a thought I'm putting on the forum, some commentary that's currently running through my mind
Sega had an amazing library of games but their consoles after the Master System (Genesis/Mega Drive, Saturn, Dreamcast) all had inferior specs to what the competition was putting out. In particular, their processors felt a generation or so behind what either Nintendo or Sony released.
Sega's position at a time was very similar to Canon's current position. Market leaders, market innovators with a core client base that was heavily invested emotionally and financially.
When Sony in particular released the PlayStation, their initial market was the casual gamer. The release of Final Fantasy 7 effectively killed the Sega console era as hardcore gamers, formerly dedicated Sega or Nintendo users, then bought Sony.
Then it happened. Sega decided to withdraw from the console market and become "system agnostic", developing their games across any and all platforms.
Today I'm a Canon man and I'm experiencing a sense of deja vu.
Casual users are investing more and more in other brands and dedicated Canonistas are no longer just considering other systems but are actually buying them. 3rd party manufacturers are clearly recognising the need to use Canon lenses on other systems, hence the emergence of Metabones adaptors and so on.
I'm beginning to wonder if history will repeat itself and I'll watch Canon driven to essentially become a lens and peripheral manufacturer for other brands.
Just a thought I'm putting on the forum, some commentary that's currently running through my mind
