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

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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.

Well it would be nice if portable devices became powerful enough to play console platform software (current leading edge; not a PSP that plays last gen PS2 games at reduced resolution). 

Technically, a gaming laptop is such a device, but it still carries all the downsides of PC gaming with it in addition to costing more for lower performance.

If anything, consoles will continue to exist as gaming platforms well into the future as inexpensive/cheap means of playing games with no hassle as long as it remains a profitable business to develop and maintain a proprietary hardware/software platform.