Ka-pi96 said:
Landguy said:
Wow, Never is a long time. Let's assume that the remote village or small town is not part of the market they are going after today anyway. Heck, China has over a billion people and only 5% can even afford to buy a console, let alone pay for a streaming service. So, you thought that because the # of people that will have good enough internet will stop things? Areas with limited or no internet that have any substantial amount of gamers that can afford to buy consoles or pay for streaming are becoming less and less every day. Remote areas with no internet either have too few people to bring it there or people too poor to buy a console anyway. Areas that have people that can afford consoles/streaming and big enough populations will have interenet access within the next 10-15 years. As the poorest areas population demands it, internet will make it there.
You can't assume that every person on erth is a realistic target audience for a console. It just isn't feasible. So, when the decision of whether to make another console is made by Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft, they aren't tabulating the villagers in the remote location and trying to figure out if they will have internet or power for that matter. Like it or not, those people are just removed from the equation. Companies design products for the mass audience of POTENTIAL BUYERS.
Just my opinion.
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Except internet access alone isn't enough. It also has to be fast enough, cheap enough and also reliable enough for any kind of streaming only device to be successful. This isn't about remote villages or whatever, there are even some parts/people in some of the most devloped western countries that wouldn't be able to use a streaming only device. Not everyone in western Europe and the US have internet, and not all of those that do have high speed internet. Some live in areas that just can't get it, some can't afford it and some don't even want it. Not only that, in some countries there are useage caps on internet as well further making streaming only difficult.
Also, that wasn't even my whole argument, while there are people that would prefer an actual console to streaming because streaming just isn't feasible for them, there would also be a significant number of people that just prefer having an actual console regardless.
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How many people do you think there are that want a console for the sole purpose of just having one? THe percentage of people buying game systems to just have the device has to be less than 1%. If they could do all of the functions of the console without the actual console box, what would the attraction to it be?
