The Distant Future of Console Gaming

[Grey Acumen]

Game_boy said:

Gnizmo said:
Exactly one of the main points I was making. People don't bother figuring out everything their computer is capable of because it is too technical and that creates a nasty barrier to entry.

Well, we appear to be in agreement. This is awkward.

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I accept that the real scenario will likely be somewhere between my 'console doomsday', that made a good topic despite not being self-consistent, and your ideas. OK.

LOL Okay, I give you props for that.

I will pose this idea to maybe give a boost to the conversation about this.

One thing I found you focusing too much on was that the consoles were becoming too much like PCs, but actually, the real issue that I seee occuring in the future is that PCs are beginning to recognize that people want simplicity as well. I think as technology becomes more advanced, steps will be taken to create more simplified and pliable setups. USB has already basically made "Plug n play" into a standard. If you built a PC for it, you could practically have every component connected through a USB. Everything becomes exchangeable and upgradable by simply removing the old version and plugging in a new one.

I see this idea being extended in the future to the point that we have a combination of USB(or some future version of it) and wireless that allows creating household setups FAR simplier. Right now, not having proper specs is a problem for PC games, but in the future, I see this beign as simple as identifying teh component that needs updated, and then buying a new one.

At this point, PC setups will begin working on projects to create quantity over quality chains, where instead of getting the most upgraded component available, you can get multiple lower versions of that same component and chain them together, much like having two harddrives set up in raid 0 to act as 1 harddrive. or getting two 1GB ram instead of 1 2GB, except this will be increased to the point where if you want, you can buy 17 or 200 1GB ram if that's what you want.

Once you reach this point, people will be able to upgrade their PCs more easily and more cost effectively, thus making it far easier for them to meet teh specs of games they want to play. This point is when I se ePC gaming becoming competetive with console gaming, is when the issue of being able to meet the requirement of the game becomes an easy and hassle free issue.