I didn't think about that. Someone under Microsoft has praised Apple and said that with the success of their product, it is a win for all?teqrevisited said:
*looks outside*
hmmm... The sky isn't on fire...
I guess the signs were wrong...
Xbox Co-Creator Says Consoles Have Won
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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*looks outside*
hmmm... The sky isn't on fire...
I guess the signs were wrong...
So console's future is in doubt due to the explosion of gaming on other devices. But it is OK as those other devices are consoles? If that is true then actually since consoles became computers some time ago, as they are not just for playing games any more, then in fact computers won.
Yeah I know, but it is as good a point as this guy is making... Face it, consoles may not be the place where the majority of people game in the future, deal with it guy. But that does not mean consoles will die; they will just become niche, like the PC, as far as gaming share.
Can't wait to hear console owners bitching because the latest COD's controls have been simplified so they work well on touch screens....
Yeah I know, but it is as good a point as this guy is making... Face it, consoles may not be the place where the majority of people game in the future, deal with it guy. But that does not mean consoles will die; they will just become niche, like the PC, as far as gaming share.
Can't wait to hear console owners bitching because the latest COD's controls have been simplified so they work well on touch screens....
Gaming is everywhere definitely, but the fact that people use these things to play games does not make them consoles, you idiot. Seriously, the people a microsoft make me ashamed that my only 7th gen console is a 360 and I can't afford a ps3.
This guy is just an idiot, how did this article make the front page fo the escapist? It says "consols arent dying, they've won!" about 5 times and then offers no coherant explanation apart from the ravings of a mad man.
To all who think this is about PC vs Console: IT IS NOT. It's about consoles, devices meant for gaming, battling redundancy. What he's saying is that rather than gaming being some fad that's going to go away it has become more relevant than ever and even companies that aren't interested in producing what we perceive as a console have to include the capacity to play games for their product to be competitive. Now, whether the relevancy of gaming and that of the traditional consoles, plugged to a TV or portable, go hand in hand is IMO very much questionable BECAUSE of the very argument he made. The words he says and the point he's trying to get to with them don't seem to quite perfectly align. lol
Everything's a console, so consoles have won.
Unfortunately that has nothing to do with REAL consoles which are about to launch off a cliff into a lake full of lava because of things like kinect and this kind of attitude. They wont have the tech to compete with PC (thermodynamics, if you dispute this statement, it's off to google you go to read up on modern graphics cards) and wont have the simplicity to compete with these new 'consoles' that run on common devices. That would explain why a new generation has been so slow in appearing.
Consoles are soon to be dead, slain by these 'consoles'.
Unfortunately that has nothing to do with REAL consoles which are about to launch off a cliff into a lake full of lava because of things like kinect and this kind of attitude. They wont have the tech to compete with PC (thermodynamics, if you dispute this statement, it's off to google you go to read up on modern graphics cards) and wont have the simplicity to compete with these new 'consoles' that run on common devices. That would explain why a new generation has been so slow in appearing.
Consoles are soon to be dead, slain by these 'consoles'.
Yeah, and Italy won WWII. Or hey, the South won the Civil War since they are Americans just like Northerners. Similar logic.
I think it could also be stated that PC gaming is on a console - A computer built specifically to play games. (since a lot of PC's have 'gamer processors and stuff' so they can play games better, or are purpose built by the owners.ecoho said:
Well since PS3s and 360s are pretty much multimedia devices that have the main point of playing games, I'm pretty sure that is already the case. It's just that most people won't admit it.Xzi said:
Someone at Sony will say the PS3 won. Someone at Microsoft will say the Xbox 360 won. Someone at Nintendo will say that Wii won. And a gaming PC manufacturer will say PCs have won.
People need to stfu about 'console wars'. The console war was just a marketing trick by Sega to get people to think they were under attack by Nintendo (and vice versa)
People need to stfu about 'console wars'. The console war was just a marketing trick by Sega to get people to think they were under attack by Nintendo (and vice versa)
Well reasoned, if a bit of an exercise in futility. If you look at it that way, yes consoles have "won" but that doesn't address the likelihood that there will be no dedicated consoles in a decade. Personally, I think consoles will never die, I game exclusively on my 360, and that won't ever change, unless they come out with a console that has really good exclusives.