Hideo Kojima Believes Consoles are Dying

[blalien]

Don't really see it happening. Not until we break the lightspeed barrier on network communications anyway, then... well, you'll have other things to worry about.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-160112.html

Those guys are full of crap. You can't use quantum tunneling to send data faster than the speed of light. It's not a matter of, "We don't yet know how to use quantum tunneling to send data faster than the speed of light, but we might in the future." It has been mathematically proven since the sixties that you can't use quantum tunneling for that purpose. Look up Bell's Inequality for more details, I'm not getting into it here.

This is just a hoax, like how every year somebody claims to have a working free energy machine.

 

[Aric Rainwater]

Long live the PC Gaming masters.

 

[Treblaine]

Make another game like MGS3 and then I'll start considering what you're saying, he hasn't made a great game since 2004 and has ZERO consistency.

Yay MGS1... then WTF(!) with MGS2!?!?!?!!!

He's not master, he's good but he's not a god.

 

[Javarino]

What the hell? Who has time to take a video game everywhere they go? The entire world would become alienated! I think motion sensors and certain areas where every experiance is imitated is cool, but it is only the next generation of console.
( Games are visually inspiring. ART people)

 

[cobrausn]

Don't really see it happening. Not until we break the lightspeed barrier on network communications anyway, then... well, you'll have other things to worry about.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-160112.html

Those guys are full of crap. You can't use quantum tunneling to send data faster than the speed of light. It's not a matter of, "We don't yet know how to use quantum tunneling to send data faster than the speed of light, but we might in the future." It has been mathematically proven since the sixties that you can't use quantum tunneling for that purpose. Look up Bell's Inequality for more details, I'm not getting into it here.

This is just a hoax, like how every year somebody claims to have a working free energy machine.

I'm aware, and I think the article even points out that it's probably baloney. Which just reinforces my point that it probably won't ever happen and streaming games would just use too much bandwidth (especially if a lot of people started doing it).

 

[Raesvelg]

In the long run, he's probably right.

As the cost of "good" hardware increases, consoles become progressively less and less cost-effective. Couple that with a trend towards more ubiquitous and faster network connections, and it's not unbelievable to anticipate the demise of the current console market.

I think that he's notably premature in making the claim, mind you. We've probably got at least one more generation of consoles before the cloud computing concept really comes into its own.

 

[Hallow'sEve]

I hope he's wrong, otherwise I'd have to find a new hobby : P

 

[I Mav I]

Whats the actual benefit of owning a console again ?

So a guy who is all but computer illiterate like me can buy a game, stick it in my console and play it within seconds without any worry that my machine can't handle it or that something will go wrong and I don't know how to fix it.

 

[haddaway234]

I'm going to prove him wrong by reminding him that many people play on consoles for their ease of use. I don't see any soccer moms setting up onlive on to their computer.

 

[addeB]

He doesn't know what he is talking about... Some thing like that would take years (a lot of them) to get through with. It would be similar to removing the controller and only develop games natal style.

 

[Outlaw Torn]

I too dream of a day when I can play games in my all-terrain bipedal battle tank.

 

[JWAN]

Console gaming is just becoming PC gaming.
I wouldn't say its DYING so much as its just turning into a PC that you don't need to update.

 

[Jared]

I see what he is saying but I still think consoles have a long way to go...they may change, or morph, but they are here to stay.

 

[DaisukeVulgar]

I couldn't help but get the image of all those obese people from Wall-e (I like Pixar, sue me.) sitting on their floating chairs with the screens in front of them everywhere they go without really taking in the scenery around them, when Kojima said about us having the ability to take our gaming anywhere. Maybe that's just me.

 

[Gitty101]

I hope this is not the case. I happen to like consoles and actually owning my games. I can't see this happening anytime soon. However, if it does I'm sure I would have moved on from playing games by the time consoles die (unless Bioware's still making their games ^^).

 

[Bob_F_It]

A bold thing to say indeed, especially in a time of the year where Ubisoft's server problems are in the frame of everybody's minds. Such a world requires acceptance that a game will never be held in your hands, and forever licensed to an account of a service.

This is perhaps more acceptable with Steam and other similarly successful digital distribution platforms, but that's because there's the confidence that they won't break. I've also heard somewhere (can't remember where) that Valve have an emergancy kill switch in a safe that will allow games to run without Steam's servers, just in case something causes Valve to stop existing.

OnLive is appearing to be unrealistically priced, and if consumers are unwilling to pay such money for the license terms they give, then solid ownership of games will stay the norm, along with physically having the game on your person, being able to play it in an isolated box. We are nowhere near accepting a market where a persistant connection to a server; Ubisoft's games are a testament to that, along with C&C4.

 

[Simon Pettersson]

We will still have consoles.

 

[ImpostorZim]

I honestly imagine this whole OnLive thing imploding upon itself. I can't imagine successful streaming of AAA gaming.

 

[igotsakabob]

The day gaming becomes solely cloud computing based is the day I stop gaming.