Console are Now Tablets = Home Consoles Doomed?

[flint]

Landguy said:

flint said:

Landguy said:

flint said:

Never totally, games need something more tactile than a touch screen and more real estate than 11 inches once you reach a certain level of depth. If, hell when tablets match console power however soon that may be, covering half the screen to press vauge buttons is gonna hide those lovely graphics. If a tablet ships with a controller and they push the fact it can plug into a TV then it's just a console anyway and you've gone full circle. Sitting infront of a fifty inch LED with a controller that fits firmly in your hand, or with your VR headset on ;p it's just a more fulfilling experience, plus that same box can stream Netflix and the like to your big screen, they just fill different slots.

Using "Airplay" you can watch whatever is on you tablet on your big screen TV.  Just add a Bluetooth controller and BAM!  you have the exact experience that you are talking about.  You don't have to be limited to the tablet controls or screen size.  This is a current capability on the ipads, not sure about other tablets.

I know all that, what i'm saying is that that is turning it essentially a console, as that is the only way to play deeper games on the device, espeically if they sell it as such. Having one single device seems like it would work on paper, but having more than one is well within most peoples budgets and can be fare more convinent. Are you a ipad fad or did you just not read thoughly?

That's the whole popint.  Why would you need to go buy a console if the tablet that you own already can do what a console does.  Why have another "special" device to just play games (console) if you already have a tablet that can do it?

Today, that isn't practical yet, as the tablets(whether its an ipad or Samsung or Surface) aren't there technically.  But in a few years, they will be close enough for MOST people.  That will be the point where consoles will meet their demise.  Sure, maybe 1 company or 2 will produce a console, but the whole console market will be 20-30 million buyers.  The rest will be the casuals that find the "close enough" is fine by them...

Yes you make a reasonable point, that makes logical sense, and who knows it may happen. I think nintendo's future is tied to making a cross handheld device like that but you are thinking way to logically about this, dealing in certainties and estimating sales numbers? Come on. I'm going by how people actually act, what has happened in the past and where we are now. The current gen has already sold 20 million, each gen has been bigger than the last, and people love buying devices for what they think it represent (i.e games) rather than what it can technically do, for pities sake who really even needs a tablet, its just, more fun than a laptop. If you ignore this perfect casual user your talking about, that you're imagining and look beyond the technical, I think consoles will be fine for, hell if you want a prediction decades as the two keep going forwards at the same rate on that less important technical front.