Pachter: Microsoft is preparing for life after Xbox

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prayformojo said:

gergroy said:

Madword said:
Consoles are not going anywhere as long as they are as nicely designed as the PS4 :)

nah, they will go away once worldwide broadband connections get up to snuff.  

People these days are polarized to the point where they think it's always all or nothing. Remember the "post PC" era? Well, here we are, years later, and people still buy laptops by the millions. 

Consoles will be around in different forms for as long as people still have large TV's in their living room. The AMOUNT of them will probably shrink but they will always be there. 

Exaclty. And I heard the same thing about "phsical media is dead! Digital downloads is the only way!" This was in 2006 when Blu-rays came out. I told them that a digital download only world is decades away. Streaming is more poppular that DDL. And phsical media is still alive and kicking eight years later. The problem with DDL is that the file sizes are large and getting larger dispite compression. And until we get gigabit and super large soild state downloading 1080p or 4-8-12K HD movies with multichannel audio isn't an easy task in regards to bandwidth and disk usage loads.

Ten years later from 2004, back when I heard about Internet 2, we're still waiting for gigabit for the masses to the home. Google fiber, where are you? Comcast cock blocking you? :)