What are they thinking?

[Cody211282]

I was just looking around and stumbled onto an article called "6 Endangered Tech Species" wondering what they were I looked started to read it, until I reached #2 Video-Game Consoles. Now I'm just thinking they are pulling stuff out of thin air to get an article out, I mean come on how the hell are Xboxs, Wiis, and PS3s a dying species? So to add some decussion to this, what do you think they got right, and what do you think is a tech that is slowly dying?



http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/110304/6-endangered-tech-species

 

[Sgt AssHead]

Pagers. I mean honestly, who still carries a pager?

 

[Cody211282]

Pagers. I mean honestly, who still carries a pager?

weirdly both my mom and friend have one, though it's only for work( they both work at a hospital).

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

CDs.

I foresee that music we buy in the future will all be in Mp3 format, bought in little, minuscule, flash-drives. The same goes for storing data on CD's. There won't be any point when you can just plug a flash drive into a device and play the media off of it.

So yes, I would consider CDs to becoming the next thing to slowly die off.

 

[Cody211282]

CDs.

I foresee that music we buy in the future will all be in Mp3 format, bought in little, minuscule, flash-drives. The same goes for storing data on CD's. There won't be any point when you can just plug a flash drive into a device and play the media off of it.

So yes, I would consider CDs to becoming the next thing to slowly die off.

That might be nice if I could play it in my car, I probably have more CDs then I should admit to.

 

[Gigaguy64]

What?
Its like he doesn't understand Game Consoles will Grow and Evolve with the times as well.
Plus there are TONS of IPs that will never leave the Company behind the the Console its own.
And many of those IPs don't look like they will die any time soon.

 

[Sgt AssHead]

Pagers. I mean honestly, who still carries a pager?

weirdly both my mom and friend have one, though it's only for work( they both work at a hospital).

My dad works at a hospital, but I havent seen him carry a pager in quite a long time. Anyways, I can see how they would still be usefull in many situations.

 

[Kialee]

Wait, let's take a look at that URL.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/110304/6-endangered-tech-species
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/
http://finance.yahoo.com/
yahoo.com

Well, there's your problem.

 

[Cody211282]

Pagers. I mean honestly, who still carries a pager?

weirdly both my mom and friend have one, though it's only for work( they both work at a hospital).

My dad works at a hospital, but I havent seen him carry a pager in quite a long time. Anyways, I can see how they would still be usefull in many situations.

They seem to work everywhere but Caesars Palace, they aren't pager friendly(cookie for reference). I did find it a bit weird that the EMTs, nurses and docs around here have pagers for when they are on call though.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

It's understandable if you reeeeeeeally think about it, though not for their reasons. As consoles add more features, they all start resembling one another.

Which in turn has them resembling the mother console: the PC.

 

[BoxCutter]

Wait, let's take a look at that URL.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/110304/6-endangered-tech-species
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/
http://finance.yahoo.com/
yahoo.com

Well, there's your problem.

I can't remember the last time I browsed Yahoo. For anything.

 

[Cody211282]

Wait, let's take a look at that URL.

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/110304/6-endangered-tech-species
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/
http://finance.yahoo.com/
yahoo.com

Well, there's your problem.

I can't remember the last time I browsed Yahoo. For anything.

I use it as a home page, mostly because it has some news, but really I need a new one.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Well, a lot of industry insiders seem to be talking up the death of the console as well. They seem to believe that they will all be replaced by some sort of cloud computing super PC/Entertainment box that everyone will have the same version of.. which to me just sounds sort of like a single console future and not the death of consoles anyway. *shrug* Personally I can't see it happening as long as there is money to be made by having competing consoles.

Upon reading the article, I think they have it mostly right at least in the sense that many of the portable devices we have now will be consolidated into basic all in one handheld units (likely in our phones or in devices with phone capability). Single purpose devices may continue to exist, but they'll be limited to cheapo versions or overly expensive and elaborate "pro" versions.

 

[Steppin Razor]

What?
Its like he doesn't understand Game Consoles will Grow and Evolve with the times as well.
Plus there are TONS of IPs that will never leave the Company behind the the Console its own.
And many of those IPs don't look like they will die any time soon.

You're on the wrong side here, these guys have clearly done their research. I mean:

While a smartphone tethered to an HDMI cable isn't much fun for anyone, a wireless HD connection like that offered by the WiDi wireless display feature found in Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors would make a smartphone both a console and a controller.

I am totally looking forward to the future of gaming. Without graphics cards.

 

[fozzy360]

I would have taken this more seriously if the writer, a Jason Notte, wasn't the biggest Apple whore. Seriously, the whole damn article pertains to how massively awesome Apple is and how it's going to become everything we need in the future. Apple this, Apple that, APPLE EVERYWHERE! Sure, Apple is making some serious dough (and I do have an iPod), but Notte is making sound like they're a digital messiah come to save us by giving us everything we wanted.

"If I have an iPhone vs. a dedicated game machine, I'm still going to have a Nintendo Wii in my house because I can't do those things on the iPhone," Dulaney says. "If it ever turned out that the iPhone could do all the gestures I needed, then the Wii is under pressure and would fade away."

Wat?