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You guys got it all wrong.

The real answer is that gamers are a fickle bunch. And if anything threatens, even potentially, their narrow view of what a video game console and video games will be, they revolt. They like to think of themselves as being welcome to change. But let's face, they're not.

So console makers need to just market their consoles as a video game machine and covertly make it an all-in-one machine that will become known by word of mouth rather than spending dollars on advertising.



Author of science fiction and other genres, I write under the pen name Desmond Shepherd. The second season of my series The Permanent Man premieres on November 11, 2014. Pre-order the season premiere The Walls Have Ears on Amazon today!