pezus said:
Do you have figures to support that? Phones are really not comparable with PCs anyway. You should ask why phones are getting more and more powerful by the day. |
I think my point is apparent even in the absence of sales statistics...
Many gamers on this website are old enough to remember a time where you needed to upgrade your PC from bleeding edge hardware to bleeding edge hardware every 12 to 18 months to play the latest and greatest games; at this time the relative performance of PC components to videogame consoles was similar to what we have today (at a similar point in the console's lifetime) but PC games rapidly eclipsed the visuals of videogame consoles because of how rapidly PC developers took advantage of these capabilities.
Contrast that to today where PC games tend to be slight graphical upgrades over their console counterparts, and designed around hardware that is 7+ years old in systems that have 5% of the graphical processing power of high end gaming PCs on the market. A market where the previous generation of handheld systems and videogame consoles was won by systems that were "a generation behind" their competition; and people are constantly bringing up that tablets and smart-phones are the largest computer market, and the market leader also tends to have hardware which is far behind the capabilities of its competition.
Hell, on this forum I would say that roughly 60% of Sony and Microsoft fans are constantly arguing that Sony and Microsoft should hold off until 2014 or 2015 to release a new console because the XBox 360 and PS3 are already "good enough".
Nintendo and (probably) Microsoft are moving away from the high end console model because the vast majority of consumers, developers and publishers are not interested in this enough to justify the costs and the pain associated with it.
