| Gamerace said: Personally, I'm with Max on that point. The market has changed. Sony themselves said "The living room is no longer the centre of the [gaming] universe - the gamer is". This is fundimentally true. As such I expect experiences that follow the gamer wherever they go will slowly take over from home based consoles. Currently that's smartphone/tablets but could become game tablets or cloud-based services that you can play on any device seemlessly. That's still a ways off but certainly before the end of this new gen. I'm guessing 30m WiiU, 40-50m for PS3 and 50-60m for 720 (or maybe reversed, will have to see MS's actual offer and it's appeal to the mass market). Toss in SteamBox, Ouya and Smart TV that could themselves become gaming systems (cloud) and this is a whole different ballgame than it was in 2006. |
I agree that the console market will shrink in the 8th gen but what you're predicting is a 50% drop from the 7th gen which in my opinion is way too drastic.
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