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Intrinsic on 18 July 2014
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Pavolink said:
Intrinsic said:

Motion is in everything... but how many game use it? And how much good did it do for the wii at the end that prompted them to jump ship and jump start the 8th gen?

OP:

No.. nintendo shouldn't be the leader. Especially if by leader you are suggesting that everyone else will do better. I tend to look at the console war as a very unnecesary platform war. Very much like blu-ray vs hddvd or vhs vs betamax. We do not need 3 consoles on the market, I don't even feel we need two though it having at least two helps keep the other guy honest. Think about it, wouldn't everyone be so much happier if there as just one console and everyone released games for it? Sony games, MS games and nintendo games all on one console.


And sell less consoles? Less money? A saturation on games?

You clearly had no idea.

I don't get you and unless I am mistaken; you are the one that has no idea.

It see,s you have been conditioned into believing that the current multiple platform model isn't only better but its beneficial. You would be wrong if thats what you thought.

The only disadvantage to having one console is that it puts too much power in the hands of just the one company. Breeds complacency and kills the drive to innovate. Only way around that is to have an open platform, where there is a base hardware with a base TOS for every game released on it, somewhere along the lines of "all games must run at 720p@60fps and all have support for scalability. So basically everyone buys say a PS4/XB1 that comes with 16Gb of GDDR5 ram and an amd cpu. But you can swap in/out any amd GPU you want as long as its based on the GCN architecture. Swp in/out any type of HDD/SSD/SSDe you want too. That way you gaming at 1080p/4k@60fps would be entirely up to your budget. But then this could very well just be a PC albeit with a lot of restrictions to allow devs still be able to optimize their games for a specific type/expected hardware.

On the plus side, this doesn't mean that you will sell less consoles. It means that at some point every single person that plays games can/will have the console in their home since the base console will remain the same for over 10-15yrs. It means that you would have one singularinstall base of over 250M as opposed to 250M shared across 3 different platforms. Means that developers only ever have to make just one version of their game and have a much wider install base to sell it to. Means no more pltform exclusive crap, timed dlc...etc. It means that sony/ms/nintendo will become nothing more than publishers like everyone else and everyone an just concentrate on making great games.

This is surely an impossible feat cause for this to happen it would mean that sony/samsung/amd or intel or nvidia/LG...etc would all have to come together and make a "home console standards group" which will agree on the standard hardware for home consoles. And it means that that home console would be made by more than one hardware manufacturer in the very same way that different people make blu-ray players.