DanneSandin said:
like how gamecube didnt do well and how nintendo left the console business because they didnt make any money from it...? oh, wait... |
They had a pretty incredible idea to succeed the GameCube though -- the Wiimote. Ideas like that don't come around all the time, which is evidenced by Wii U, they couldn't come up with a new idea as compelling as the Wiimote was for 2006 and are trying to sell the Wii U as a more conventional game platform.
Personally too I think the age of the game console may be coming to an end, beyond the PS4/720, where else can you go? The graphical fidelity will eventually reach a point where most developers simply cannot afford to go higher (even the big Western studios), and I think the 720/PS4 take it there.
So where else? Virtual reality?
I think the other thing in the next 4-5 years you are going to see a lot of are smart TVs with game capable chipsets built into them (looks like Samsung and Apple are already looking heavily into this), and also things like the ability of tablets and smartphones to wirelessly sync to the TV (the reverse of the Wii U concept). You get a Bluetooth wirelessly controller and its quite possible an iPad can drive the graphics on your TV with it.
