Is this guy still alive ?
This guy is sooo early last gen. Forget about him.
What do you think will replace them? I certainly could see things changing . . . but you are not going to be playing TV-displayed CoD on your Chromecast dongle or cellphone.
Well, tbh, I don't think we'll have a Ps7 either.in two more generations.
C'mon Michael. Stick to the financial aspects. You are are not an engineer. When you try to talk about the technology it just comes out as hilarious. Battery issues, power consumption, heat dissipation are all serious issues that are not easy to handle. Thus, mobile devices are always a little behind the larger plug-in stuff.
And Microsoft knows this stuff full well. We are talking about a company that had to write-off $1B because their console with a big fan still overheated and died with a RROD.
Um, why not? take a look at the "Call of Duty" of cellphones. We're closer to phones replacing consoles than you think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st7eMfykiVE
I agree that specialty gaming devices will become redundant. We're already seeing Sony moving towards a service with PSNow. Won't be long before Microsoft offers a platform agnostic Xbox service. They'll probably continue to provide their own hardware, but it won't be the only way to get their games.
I look forward to having to buy one mobile device and one living room device. Can't happen soon enough.
The concept of games being processed locally is slowly dying. As Sony and Microsoft gradually improve their back end infrastructure, streaming and real time cloud gaming will only become more prominent. You'll be able to play a game anywhere, irrespective of your device.
In 8 years, "Xbox" and "Playstation" won't be viewed as hardware platforms, but as entertainment services.
All I can think about this future is how easy it'll be to sync an aimbot to your phone and that makes me upset.
I really think things like game streaming is the future, but it's still early and the sloooowww upgrading of internet to our houses is going to dictate when this happens. Is it a decade away? Two? Three? That's the tough question.
Instead of console, the CPU & GPU could move elsewhere . . . in your TV, in your cable box, using a PC instead, etc. But I wouldn't call that the death of the console . . . just it moving.
C'mon Michael. Stick to the financial aspects. You are are not an engineer. When you try to talk about the technology it just comes out as hilarious. Battery issues, power consumption, heat dissipation are all serious issues that are not easy to handle. Thus, mobile devices are always a little behind the larger plug-in stuff.
And Microsoft knows this stuff full well. We are talking about a company that had to write-off $1B because their console with a big fan still overheated and died with a RROD.
We roll our eyes at this on this forum, but the more casual hardcore gamer in me says yes I would love to stream Assassin's Creed 12 to my TV from a stick or my phone instead of buying another console. There are positives, not just negatives.
Explain.
I don't see how or why it'd be any easier than on console/PC. :/
Pachter: This Is The Final Generation
KEANE NG | 24 MARCH 2009 8:39 PM
Xbox 720, PlayStation 4, uh, Wiii? None of these are going to happen, and if they do happen it's not going to be any time soon, says industry analyst Michael Pachter. According to him, this is the last console generation.
You can go ahead and take that 800 dollars you were saving up for a Xbox 720 or PS4 and try to inject your local economy with some cash flow, because according to Wedbush Morgan industry fortune teller supreme Michael Pachter, this generation will be the last generation of consoles. Ever.
"I think we've seen the last generation of consoles," Pachter said at the GamesBeat conference today. What Pachter saw in his crystal ball was this: Nintendo might release an upgraded Wii with HD and more storage, but Sony and Microsoft probably won't release another console. That's because there's just no more money in it, and third parties won't want it either.
120W+ consoles vs 1~5W smartphones are obviously going to be equally powerful any time now.Pachter said:I mean, your phone will be powerful enough to power any game in two more generations.
I kind of agree.
I mean remember you can now play GTA:SA, on your iPhone.
In another eight or nine years we will be able to play GTAV on there. Double that and we will be able to play whatever the last GTA is this generation which'ok probably look quite a bit more technically superior to The Division.
That's 18 years from now. An iPhone ... may well do achieve that.
How much will we care about graphics after that?
Imagine just hooking up your iPhone to your television and playing a $3 version of GTA:VII.
fuck outta here with that bullshit...