Mobile gaming has never been a threat to it. You can't get a console or PC- like gaming experience on a phone other than endless runner games or something like that.
| KBG29 said: I don't think mobile was ever a threat to home consoles, but Android and iOS definitely were, an still are. Sony and Microsoft are doing a great job of broadening the scope of thier consoles. PlayStation Vue and Sling TV should help keep people usng their marketplaces for live tv, on demand, pvp, digital video, and with PS Vue DVR as well. Both Sony and Microsoft will have to continue to add more and more non gaming functions to thier devices if they want to compete with $200 or less set top boxes, and $80 and below smart USB sticks. Many, many, many new avenues for accessing console quality games are poping up, and making these super cheap an super versitial low cost boxes perfect alternatives for the yearly COD player. If Sony and Microsoft continue to stay ahead of the set top box and smart sticks, they could potentially grow the console market to its biggest base ever. With live tv they will be moving the console from a special use device, to a commn function device. This will make even the most casual and occasional user much more comfortable with the devices. With so much function and versitilty, they should see a huge trend away from people getting up to use the pc, and instead browsing the web, shopping, and social networking right on the television. As for Nintendo. I see no future for them in the platform holder market. They have so many things they need to do to even begin to compete with MS, Sony, Google, Samsung, and Apple, that they may as well be a start up. unfortunate, but it really is the truth. That is why I applaud their decision to look at mobile and 3rd party development. They can be one of, if not the largest softeare developers in the world if they focus on that, and I fully think that is what they should do. |
Uhh, Nintendo's not going into 3rd party development. Don't know where you read that one.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
PDF said:
I think the people who don't like it are just a vocal minority. Services like Netflix, and Spotify prove this is a viable future. |
Do you know what's the difference between these things? Music and video can be buffered. If your connection goes off for 1 or 2 secs, you won't notice since you will already have a big portion (or maybe all) of the content waiting to be played in a buffer.
That can't happen on a game. What happens in one frame depends on what you, the unpredictable user, did in the last one. A 1 or 2 second interruption can really destroy your experience.
mobile has, perhaps, killed my desire for a dedicated handheld but mobile (like dedicated handheld before it) is not a suitable replacement for my console.
torok said:
Do you know what's the difference between these things? Music and video can be buffered. If your connection goes off for 1 or 2 secs, you won't notice since you will already have a big portion (or maybe all) of the content waiting to be played in a buffer. That can't happen on a game. What happens in one frame depends on what you, the unpredictable user, did in the last one. A 1 or 2 second interruption can really destroy your experience. |
a viable concern before psnow and shareplay proved the technology is viable right now.
| kitler53 said: a viable concern before psnow and shareplay proved the technology is viable right now. |
From someone who plays with Remote Play, while the technology works decently, it's far to replace all my gaming. It suffers with input lag, freezes for some seconds and have other connection-related issues.
Networks isn't reliable. Assuming that it is is one of the falacies of computing.
| DJEVOLVE said: When you're taking a poo, sitting in a doctors office or the girl that never played consoles anyway, it is a threat, however any other time, no. |
That's when remote play on my Xperia is for.
I'll also add the time my showers and toilet sessionst take have exponentially increased since I bought a phone that supports remote play.
Sony should extent it to other phones like apple, Samsung or LG.
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