Kojima: Console will be dead “in the near future”

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Words Of Wisdom said:

Gilgamesh said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Gilgamesh said:

This is pretty obvious, I see consoles being gone after the next gen. It's obvious portable is the future, but it's not like it'll be something like portable gaming today, it'll likely have wires to plug into your tv to get the full HD experience and then if you want to continue gaming on the go you can unplug it and play it wherever you want. 

It'd be so much more convenient and probably much more cheaper.

It's definitely the future.

More or less.

You will still be able to play games on your TV and your portable, it'll just be the same game for both.

And the same player, instead of having two video game systems (portable, console) you'll have 1 that does both.

I wouldn't go that far.

There's value in single piece software because you can sell to two markets (console gamers and handheld gamers).  However, by moving from a console + handheld package to a single package system you're losing revenue.  All those people who own Wii + DS or PS3 + PSP are now providing less hardware revenue and, since their gaming budgets haven't suddenly increased (outside of the amount not spent on hardware), it's likely you won't be making that money up in software. 

If I can sell a Wii to you and a 3DS to you instead of just one then I'll do that because it makes me more money.  Combine them at a console/handheld price and you lose revenue.  Combine them at a combined price and you lose customers due cost of entry which then becomes loss of revenue.

Oddly enough, I can see Sony doing this far easier than Nintendo as they're already willing to forgo some hardware revenue for a higher software profit margin.

also truer when you consider the pc market would have free reign over the home market if that happened. PCs are just too easy to customize and improve that the difference in game quality would be severely contrasting.