Pachter: Microsoft is preparing for life after Xbox

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prayformojo said:

Dark_Feanor said:

PC is blending with tablets and mobile. That is Microsoft vision.

There will always be people that want high class quality entertainment that only a powerfull hardware at location can provide. 

The same way movie theater still exists, unless you are willing to spend thousands on your own home theater you can´t get closo to that level of quality.

However, the big money is on people that would be satisfied with tablets and smartphone games.

I think the next leap is a discless console that acts like a Steam machine with the capability to also stream games. After that, we'll see something like Apple TV, but for video games. A tiny little HDDless console that allows for streaming only. I think that will probably be the final version as far as traditional consoles go.

VR is where we're all heading though. 

I rememeber thinking back when Wii came out how perfect it would be if Nintendo focused on VR as their next gaming advance, since I knew even back then we were eventually headed there. But I think the Virtual Boy disaster scared them out of attempting anything there again, and now they're going to be beaten to the punch for mainstream VR it looks like. Huge missed opportunity for them imo, would have been a perfect marriage.