Console are Now Tablets = Home Consoles Doomed?

[Landguy]

kitler53 said:

greenmedic88 said:

kitler53 said:
i had to pay $500 for a 16 gb ipad. to upgrade to 32 gb adds another hundred. true AAA games won't come to ipad without a streaming service like playstation now. even then, ipad needs to get a screen share from ipad to the tv be easy (and without requiring a "console" like apple tv) to really make it viable. evevn then they would have to build up a first party line up.

i'm not saying we will always have console but i don't think apple can do it alone. playstation now, however, could have a very bright future.

I forgot to list that. 

Local storage is one of the biggest handicaps mobile currently has. 

Apple could fix that in a flash with a Micro SD port, backpedaling on their entire pricing structure in the process, which is why they'll never do it.

Charging a $100 for a 16 to 32GB storage upgrade and another $100 for a 32 to 64GB upgrade has gone beyond ridiculous with current solid state memory prices being a fraction of what they were when iOS debuted and yet the pricing model remains.

So, the backwards solution will be play games via cloud/streaming or continue to add $100 to each doubling of local storage. Either that or games are going to have to be smaller than they are on console which is no real solution at all if these games are supposed to be the same. They would be like PSV games, which are fine, but not the same. 

evev some of the better vita games are around 5 Gb.  but true AAA is in the 20-40 Gb these days making apple a complete non-starter for me. i'd still have to add a controller (which would technically be a peripheral and we know how those are supported) and their still isn't an easy way to get the picture onto a tv without buying another device like chromecast. i'm not playing on a tablet screen, i didn't buy a big hdtv not to use it. they are currently no games and apple has no first party developers. 

they have a lot of work ahead of them for me to take them seriously. 

Even though I quoted an article related to ipads, I really think that storage is going to explode in the next 2-3 years.  Cloud storage prices have dropped to almost nothing.  THat will force these devices to come with much larger storage options. The makers of SSD will have to keep up price wise and so will the Apple/Microsoft/Amazon/Samsung's of the world.  With game streaming being a likely future for games that will be gobbled up by the casuals (COD/HALO/GTA), the expectation of graphics will be lower than the AAA high end titles on PC or consoles.  Every time one of these games(COD) comes out, everyone(mostly game forum dwellers) moans about how unimpressive the graphics and gameplay are.  THe casuals love them.  If you took all of the Assasins Creed and COD and GTA games and made them available to consumers on their tablets, the sales of the consoles would be crushed.