| Game_boy said: "Why on earth do you think that? There is already evidence surfacing that Microsoft is paying attention to what Nintendo has done. Sony has also made cryptic statements alluding to the fact that the PS4 will be going down a different path than the PS3 is. Whatevidence do you have that supports this silly notion of Microsoft and Sony refusing to notice the unbelievable success of both the DS and the Wii." I know that, but I still believe the trend of eroding my four key advantages will continue - i.e. PS3/Xbox 360 simply went further along the path than the market can accept at this point, and the Wii still represents some movement in that direction with its System Updates and $250 launch price. The audience that will buy my kind of console is increasing all of the time as people are born and the current under-25 fascination and familiarity with that sort of technology will stay with that generation. |
So, in other words, you have no evidence at all of what you claim. The under 25 market is not guaranteed to be tech savvy, and a large number of them are not. My party trick has been shown almost exclusively to people under the age of 25. Simplicity sells. That is why Windows is, and will continue to be the dominant OS. Linux isn't even that hard to get or understand, but it holds your hand a lot less than any version of Windows so it remains a niche.
Further more, the 360 and PS3 are not headed down a path to the PC. They both have signficant differences that make a ctirical distinction between them and PCs that will not be erased. 95% of games on the 360 and all games released on the PS3 work on every model. You buy a game and it works. That is what has made console gaming so popular, and that has never changed. Microsoft refuses to allow developers to require the hard drive be present even though over 80% of their consoles have it because they want to keep every game on every console they have sold.
The other big distinction is the controller is the same on every console, so the game handles the same everytime. You don't have to make sure the game works on a dvorak kkeyboard with a track ball mouse or any of that nonsense because it is exactly the same. You don't have to remap the keys or fiddle with the settings to make the game perfect.
