| superchunk said:
People who want to play games will look at consoles over the other media players. However, they will also demand smart OS based content. That is my point. Sure they can buy a cheap alternative and a dedicated console. But the dedicated consoles will now have that same content and it will be expected and demanded from consumers.... at least the large majority of gaming consumers. |
"What I hope I have demonstrated is that the dedicated console is effectively dead...
Next gen will be smart multimedia set-top devices, not gaming consoles. They will be OS branded and equal in importance to first party games."
I'm not missing your point. I'm telling you your point is incorrect. Future game consoles will have much of the same capabilities as set-tops, because why the hell not?, but they will be game platforms first and foremost. No "equal" about it. Any game console that tries to make the two equal will be pretty much dead, as it's emphasizing capabilities that are widely available elsewhere, and will only become increasingly accessible as time goes on.
That line about DVDs in my last post wasn't chosen at random. If you want to amend your point to "from now on game consoles will also have lots of multi-media capabilities!" then I'd say "yeah, sounds about right." If you're going to stick to your point that multimedia capabilities will be as important, if not more so, to future game consoles, I'm going to have to keep disagreeing with you.
