| zuvuyeay said: uh oh,you've expanded on that post the other day,controller wars confirmed in rainbirds world isn't the PC like that as someone else has said,i don't really understand what you want,its all about profit at the end of the day why would companies want to give that away in the future i guess it will all just be instant streaming,so i guess you'll get your wish |
Well, the controller wars wouldn't be mcuh different from what we have now, but the console wars would be much less prominent.
And it's not like the PC.
1) The PC is not a platform per se. Windows is a platform, Mac is platform and Linux is a platform, and if you want to game, you're pretty much locked to Windows. So the problem is actually similar on the PC in a way, when you divide it into platforms.
2) A PC is not a console, it's not a plug-and-play device. That's why we have consoles in the first place, they allow people to game without the need to worry about their hardware being up to par, their drivers being up to date, etc.
And companies don't want to throw away profits, which is why this isn't going to happen without a bit of effort. But publishers (including Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft) and developers stand to make more profit from their games. And at some point we'll probably reach a system with streaming, but until we get much better connections, it's not gonna happen, so that's still some ways off.
