Can 4 consoles survive simultaneosly

[DanneSandin]

JayWood2010 said:

DanneSandin said:

ishiki said:

DanneSandin said:

ishiki said:

DanneSandin said:

I have a hard time picturing this PConsole being successful... When you game on your PC its with the mouse and keyboard, and I would imagine that few livingroom tables are high enough to allow for that set up. Many families already has a PC, which they use to do homework and work on, sharing it. It would be a really niche market that would buy a PConsole. And Valve don't have the kind of 1st party games that pushes a system. I guess it'll sell like... 10m-20m units, but probably closer to 10 going by what little we know now.

I play Dark Soul's, Batman etc with gamepad just fine with better graphics on PC. Annnd I can remap buttons in every game I use it for, if the developer chooses a bad scheme.

I agree it will be niche. But valves big cash cow isn't going to be this console imo. It's going to be steam. Take away say 5 million console players. Add 5 million of people that already own another console, but not a PC. 

You already have an existing userbase of 50 million, just adding that you increase it by 20%. There's logistic issues than consoles. But the way I see it, is that it's an entry point into the gaming PC market for people otherwise intimidated.

Yeah, but there's a lot of games that can't be played using ordinary gamepads. How you gonna play Total War or Civilization? It'll suck monkey balls.

All games that come from consoles have controller support now, Even games that were initally PC exclusive (Witcher) have gamepad support. So the argument that you can't use gamepads on PC's. Obviously there's exclusives on consoles PC don't get.

However there are some games that just aren't viable to be played without a mouse and keyboard. And then you can play with a mouse and keyboard. But if you don't like Mouse and Keyboard which was your argument. You won't like games like civilization or total war anyways because it is not viable to be played without it.

There's obvious advantages over  a game console for this. But if done correctly it can be a viable alternative to consoles in the living room without learning how to make a HTPC that can play games.

I think you missunderstood me. I PLAY Total War and Civilization, but it wouldn't be doable on my TV since my livingroom table/my couch table/coffe table is way to low for me to have my mouse and keyboard on it while playing these games. And that's why I think the steambox while only cater to a none-strategic-playing niche. A plain old PC is better suited for these kind of games.

DanneSandin does make a point, unless all games are adpted to controllers including games like this.  Then it would come down to preference.  Does Civ have controller support?  I dont play those games so Idk

I don't think they support a controller, but they could I guess... But Total War and Europa Univeralis is MEANT to be played with a mouse :D