CGI-Quality said:
Rainbird said:
CGI-Quality said:
Rainbird said:
CGI-Quality said:
Hmmm.....not a bad read, I just hope it doesn't come to pass. Part of the reason the industry remains strong and alive is because of firece cometition on both hardware and software. If we subtract the hardware, you'll find much less activity at the market, IMO.
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But you don't subtract the hardware unless you look at it from the developers perspective. If games were to run on DVDs, Sony could still have a blu-ray drive in their console for movies. Hell, it might even be usable for games as long as they were built for both DVD and blu-ray, although in the current age, most HD games are anyway.
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But the market lives and strives on competition. You have to admit that less hardware would surely injure that process. 
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I don't really see where the competition is hurt in my scenario though, other than pricing at least.
HW manufacturers are free to sell and further develop their hardware at whatever price they like though, and to do what they like. Include a game, include a bigger harddrive, include whatever. What if Samsung wants to build a console into their TVs, or whatever they might want to do?
This is just something that needs to be taken into account from the beginning, because the hardware must not be too expensive to begin with, but that's the only downside I see really.
And in my scenario, competition would grow a lot with regards to online networks and services. 
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I'm a little confused then. Are you saying you'd want a universal console market, or cheaper hardware with a larger quantity of software?
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I imagine that the hardware that actually plays the game is universal. This would be designed by someone who know what they're doing, maybe a collaboration across companies, I don't know. This hardware should be designed for profit and a good startingpoint for a new generation. So since it would be universal, it would be pretty stupid to create a console that costs $800 to make.
If this scenario were to happen next generation, I imagine we'd see the 'base' bundle (one console and one controller) be $299 or so. So it wouldn't be a big step up from this generation, but that's a sacrifice worth making imo.
