http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7052420.stm
I cannot see consoles disappearing for at least 10 years but maybe eventually.
Say goodbye to consoles (slowly):
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Competing consoles ain't going anywhere. Competition is always good, it keeps prices down and encourages hardware designers/software developers to think more innovatively/creatively.
EA (the largest publisher and third party developer) just don't want to spend money to port their games to every system under the sun.
Fuck EA anyway, they lack creativity and would rather keep cranking out the same games every year with just updated team rosters and minor tweaking.
EA (the largest publisher and third party developer) just don't want to spend money to port their games to every system under the sun.
Fuck EA anyway, they lack creativity and would rather keep cranking out the same games every year with just updated team rosters and minor tweaking.
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I do feel consoles will disappear in 10-15 years time. Within that time period everyone will have a PC in their livingroom, as an entertainment-system. PC games are 40-50 bucks, instead of 60+ bucks (euros), and the games will all be playable through the big-ass HD screen, and through wireless controllers.
Plus think of all the possibilities for emulators.
Ofcourse, PC gaming and emulators etc is alreayd possible right now, on a TV screen... but most people dont use such a set-up yet, and dont have a PC as mediacenter YET in their livingroom, connected to a HD screen.
So once everyone has a mediacenter and good specs etc... I feel the market will ask for games to be played on that system. And with such a huge market, prices will drop a bit, and instead of companies creating specific software for certain consoles, they'll just develop that software for that mediacenter that everyone has already anyway...
But I've been saying that for a long while now. It just makes the most sense.
Plus think of all the possibilities for emulators.
Ofcourse, PC gaming and emulators etc is alreayd possible right now, on a TV screen... but most people dont use such a set-up yet, and dont have a PC as mediacenter YET in their livingroom, connected to a HD screen.
So once everyone has a mediacenter and good specs etc... I feel the market will ask for games to be played on that system. And with such a huge market, prices will drop a bit, and instead of companies creating specific software for certain consoles, they'll just develop that software for that mediacenter that everyone has already anyway...
But I've been saying that for a long while now. It just makes the most sense.
I was there, the big BNB blackout of november, 2008. We lost many that day...
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The PC won't replace a Games Console/Dedicated Music/Video Centre until it becomes considerably easier to use, manage and be far less troublesome.
I love that you can tinker and configure as much as you like on a PC but if my DVD Player was even half as complicated I'd be very, very pissed off.
I have Windows Media Center and yes it's flashy but it doesn't come close to replacing Sky+ or a Freeview PVR. That and boy it's clunky, slow and inefficient. I use it every now and again but it doesn't even compare to WMP11 for full control of your media.
Sky+, A Freeview (aka Digital) PVR, A Freeview Hard Disk/DVD Recorder or even a DVD Player are considerably easier to use and despite Microsoft's claim on their software "they just work". Even if an Apple Mac is better than Windows it still won't be as efficient as one of those.
Microsoft made a serious mistake with Windows Media Center. Instead of designing a locked down operating system specifically designed for Media Playback they just dumped some two bit software on top of Windows. Result WMC isn't half as fluid and efficient as it should be.
The closest attempt at getting it right are probably the PS3 and Xbox 360 but those are both reliant on the power and control of a Computer to work properly, as media centres. I think?
If you think about it it's completely illogical to stream content from one computer to anther.
Microsoft has been trying to get a media centre into the living room for the past 20 years (Bill Gates mentions it in several books) and they're still nowhere near what we expect from such a device. They're really the completely wrong people for the job. Windows is technical, your DVD Player is not!
People want "easy of use" and no matter how clever these media centres get nothing has been as simple as putting a game/cd/dvd into some hardware and pressing Play. It should be but it is not. Dedicated hardware designed for the job in mind instead of an operating system with dedicated software plonked on top simply works better.
I love that you can tinker and configure as much as you like on a PC but if my DVD Player was even half as complicated I'd be very, very pissed off.
I have Windows Media Center and yes it's flashy but it doesn't come close to replacing Sky+ or a Freeview PVR. That and boy it's clunky, slow and inefficient. I use it every now and again but it doesn't even compare to WMP11 for full control of your media.
Sky+, A Freeview (aka Digital) PVR, A Freeview Hard Disk/DVD Recorder or even a DVD Player are considerably easier to use and despite Microsoft's claim on their software "they just work". Even if an Apple Mac is better than Windows it still won't be as efficient as one of those.
Microsoft made a serious mistake with Windows Media Center. Instead of designing a locked down operating system specifically designed for Media Playback they just dumped some two bit software on top of Windows. Result WMC isn't half as fluid and efficient as it should be.
The closest attempt at getting it right are probably the PS3 and Xbox 360 but those are both reliant on the power and control of a Computer to work properly, as media centres. I think?
If you think about it it's completely illogical to stream content from one computer to anther.
Microsoft has been trying to get a media centre into the living room for the past 20 years (Bill Gates mentions it in several books) and they're still nowhere near what we expect from such a device. They're really the completely wrong people for the job. Windows is technical, your DVD Player is not!
People want "easy of use" and no matter how clever these media centres get nothing has been as simple as putting a game/cd/dvd into some hardware and pressing Play. It should be but it is not. Dedicated hardware designed for the job in mind instead of an operating system with dedicated software plonked on top simply works better.