Grandia said:
Screamapillar said:
There will never be a 'last gen' lol. Videogames have only grown in popularity. The current generation is the largest one ever, by install base size. If anything, there are more generations to come than there have been so far since the 80's.
Smartphone/ tablet games just bring more people into the fold, and help console games sell. Just look at how YouTube views of Nintendo Direct on smartphones have caused Animal Crossing to explode in Japan. The game routinely sells 70-80k copies per week, and it's been out since the beginning of November.
Sure, there has been a change in what types of games sell well on consoles, but certainly the size of the market such as it is, at the tail end of an unusually long cycle, is still far bigger than the market was in 2005 before Xbox 360 was released and GameCube, PS2, and Xbox were all in steep decline. That's how far the industry has come...even at the weakest part of the cycle, when new machines are about to replace old machines, we're still far bigger than we were five or even ten years ago.
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There sure will be at some point a last console generation once streaming technologie is stable and advanced enaugh to reach most consumers than there will be no need for new consoles anymore. You only need a receiver and this could be anything, Sony might use their TVs as receiver and stream new playstation games directly in new Sony TVs, you could buy Playstation as service to your new TV then.
The end of conventional consoles is already settled the only question is when this changeover will happen.
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That seems like a pipe-dream. People are far more likely to buy a new generation of game system every five years than upgrading to a new, super-expensive TV set. Once people buy a large HDTV, it is a long time before they feel any need to get yet another TV set. You think a $1000 TV set with Sony streaming will sell better than a $399 game console? Doubtful. The figure I read a while back said that people wait 7-10 years inbetween TV sets, sometimes longer.
Also, many people still do not have access to reliable broadband internet. Broadband internet in many areas of the country is still a long ways off.
