The state of consoles post-Moore's Law

[Grey Acumen]

Soleron said:

Grey Acumen said:

vlad321 said:

 

Microsoft? Dell? HP? Toshiba? What game are they going to use to push those controls? How are they going to market games for the PC that require motion controls when most people still have mouse + keyboard, and how are they going to market the motion controls for the PC when there aren't any games that need them?
This is the conundrum that all PC companies face. None of them are lare enough to make a signifigant innovative difference in the market within which they exist. Only console companies can do this, because they are the ones who decide their market.

As much as I dislike Microsoft, they do have the power to change PC gaming rapidly. DirectX 10 and Games for Windows are two recent examples. They're really going to push touchscreens next, with Windows 7, and that is certainly a "new control method" that could be used in PC games. I don't see motion controls on the PC as a huge obstacle if they wanted to do it.

However, I agree that consoles will always be focused on games more than the PC and that is why they will continue to exist. Nintendo, the most successful console company today, are never going to put their games on the PC.

 

wait, what's this? Our arguments whittled down to a fundamental point over which we agree? On the internet?

And they say miracles don't happen anymore :P

seriously though, I see your point on the touch screen issue, but the question I still have is if that is going to be able to be implemented enough that it becomes a standard that PC developers can specifically design a game around and not just have it as an option. I don't see this as being likely, but I'm not going to try to say impossible.

But yeah, Nintendo is really the only console this generation that has managed to define itself as being significantly different from a PC in terms of it's focus on gaming, different controls, low price and wide variety of exclusive games. Even if Nintendo gets more computer-like farther down the road, it will suffer when it does and in reaction pull back away from the things that make it computery on any following iterations.