VGKing on 28 October 2012
| superchunk said: This is the beginning of what I've been posting about all year. Android and iOS will hit the core gaming market hard in 2013. It will be with TV connected devices like the googTV and iTV products and will include casual mobile experiences as well as core console experiences. Digital only, tons'of bluetooth controller support, same exact games on phone, tablet, tv connected boxes, etc. MS will clearly fit this same bill with their win8/live/web store/xbox full interchangeability. Nintendo will fit its niche and its wiiu should be perfectly ok with its first party games and hopefully they thought ahead when it comes to smart / web services and such. Sony should be able to compete if they don't follow their Vita model. They really need to utilize Android in the long run to provide the same level of smart services as they don't have the first party to singularly drive sales like Nintendo does. We won't see typical games consoles next gen. They will be smart web devices that have core gaming applications along with a ton of other functionality. |
Free to play is where Android games succeed. You can't make a Halo 4 or a Black Ops 2 and sell it on the Android store. As long as consoles offer these AAA experiences, they should have little to fear.
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What's wrong with the Vita model? I say they finally learned their lesson at least on the hardware side. 1st party is lacking though since their all working on PS3 games. Anyway Sony's 1st party titles got extremely popular this gen. Compare PS2 1st party to PS3 1st party....you'll see there is huge growth. It will only keep growing with PS4.
