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Eat Sleep Play founder David Jaffe anticipates there'll be one more traditional home console generation before other platforms take over the market.

"I think there will be another console cycle," the ex-God of War producer told IGN. "I think there will be really big f***ing games for them. I'm just guessing, but I think the next generation of consoles will be the last of that current form of console, where you go to a store and buy your $60 games.

"When you play a game, you get one of two things or both," he added. "You either get amazing gameplay, amazing experience and immersion, or you get both. The gameplay, which is the most important thing, the consumers have shown they don't care where they get it.

"They'll get it on their iPhone, on their old mobile phone playing Snake, World of Warcraft, or Call of Duty. Gameplay travels very easily. The spectacle doesn't, you have to be on the high-end consoles for those."

Jaffe also speculated that platform holders like Sony might run their software businesses using the cloud.

"I think we've just gotten conditioned to think that games have to be a certain length and that's coming from the business model. But I think that business model, with the exception of a certain few games, needs to go away. And I think it'll happen, I just don't know when. But I would say, yes, 'Xbox 720,' 'PlayStation 4' I think we're done after that.

"I'm not saying Onlive or Gaikai are the companies. I'm not saying it's Steam. I don't know how you get it, but I don't think you get it as an exclusive disc that goes to a certain piece of hardware. Maybe Sony launches their kind of cloud-based OnLive system, and maybe in that system you've got some exclusive big games."

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/293618/xbox-720-ps4-the-last-console-cycle-jaffe/



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I 100% disagree.

Even Apple is retaining the console-like experience and its thriving.

Nintendo surely won't stop making consoles and with their awesome 1st party libraries, they'll continue to sell.



I for one still like having a physical disc/console so cloud gaming would have to improve exponentially before many embrace it as the full standard.

But by the time Xbox 720 and PS4 are obsolete, it'll be around 2020, so who knows; by then it may be true.



I more or less agree.  i'm not a fan of onlive specifically but i think publishers are really going to push for that kind of a service.  netflix streaming is doing great and growing and as a consumer it is a great service.  streaming gives publishers will have a lot of control (aka anti-piracy) to motivate them for the switch, hardware contraints are eliminated making for a truely mult-platform experience.

... things are going to be changing ... i definently believe that.  the proprietary console buisness model is doomed.



So what will happen to VGchartz??



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Given how drastically PSPGo failed, how could Sony seriously be considering going back to that, even 8 years or so from now?



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

Doubt it. Computers haven't become obsolete just because of tablets, and laptops...

People who want to play games will get a dedicated gaming machine, the market is stronger than ever, why stop now?

 

...and what about Wii2?



 

Here lies the dearly departed Nintendomination Thread.

It's slightly surreal to agree with Jaffe on something, but that's what I think, too. It seems like Sony and Microsoft are looking to get PSN and Live on as many devices as possible. Eventually, the network rather than the hardware may be the "platform."



badgenome said:

It's slightly surreal to agree with Jaffe on something, but that's what I think, too. It seems like Sony and Microsoft are looking to get PSN and Live on as many devices as possible. Eventually, the network rather than the hardware may be the "platform."


They already are their own platforms, just like Steam is its own platform. Basically its becoming possible to have two platforms on one device.



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Jay520 said:

So what will happen to VGchartz??

Haha, good question!

Sux with all this digital download and cloud gaming. I want gaming to be kept on traditional consoles and physical copies and nothing else.