While the title of this thread may seem obvious or silly upon first glance, I think it warrants a discussion, for reasons I will make clear below.
I see a lot of people talking about one of the consoles currently in production being "dead", but what are they referring to specifically? Is there an agreed upon definition? There are at least 4 possible things "dead" is referring to:
A)Poor hardware sales.
B)Poor software sales.
C)Companies stop making officially licensed games for it.
D)Hardware production is discontinued.
For me, A) and B) do not mean a console is dead, but C) and D) definitely do, and for gamers C) means it even more than D). Is this generally what other people here think? I get the feeling a lot people are going by A) or B) alone. I think those more clearly indicate a struggling or under-performing console than a dead one. We might want to use the term "moribund" to describe some (but perhaps not all) such situations. "Moribund" means something is in the process of dying out, but is not dead yet.
Just trying to clarify and disambiguate.
Any thoughts?
I see a lot of people talking about one of the consoles currently in production being "dead", but what are they referring to specifically? Is there an agreed upon definition? There are at least 4 possible things "dead" is referring to:
A)Poor hardware sales.
B)Poor software sales.
C)Companies stop making officially licensed games for it.
D)Hardware production is discontinued.
For me, A) and B) do not mean a console is dead, but C) and D) definitely do, and for gamers C) means it even more than D). Is this generally what other people here think? I get the feeling a lot people are going by A) or B) alone. I think those more clearly indicate a struggling or under-performing console than a dead one. We might want to use the term "moribund" to describe some (but perhaps not all) such situations. "Moribund" means something is in the process of dying out, but is not dead yet.
Just trying to clarify and disambiguate.
Any thoughts?