| spemanig said:
I've already said this; Sony is looking to turn PS Now into their future proof platform. They won't need to go all digital because they'll go all streaming instead. Microsoft is going a similar way with XBL. Nintendo differenciates themselves from those futures by doing something the others can't - a reason to buy the hardware. Apple's iPhone wasn't the first multimedia device or the first touch screen device or anything. It was just the first one to do it all well in a mainstream product. MS and Sony haven't done that and have not made hardware that can take advantage of that the way the NX will. When the Wii was successful, they the Move and Kinect were released to much less fanfair, because they were late to the party. They didn't revolutionize first, so their efforts didn't matter. What do you think will happen if the NX turns out successful with this prediction. What? Are the PS4 and XBO suddenly going to ban physical media to force players to be all digital so that they can cultivate an environtment where they can actually take advantage of and provide a user experience around it? Of course not. That would be suicide. And because they can't do that, even after a hundred different firmware updates, those systems can never be what the NX will likely be. In order for this concept to work, their platforms would have to transend their hardware. That's the purpose of an all digital platform. That's why the iPhone was so revolutionary. And that's why, if I'm right, the NX will be revolutionary. That doesn't mean that the PS4 and XBO will stop selling well, but it absolutely does mean that they will never be able to replicate the NX. You can't just "firmware update" that kind of thing. You can't just update your PS4, and suddenly your PS4 feels like nothing but a vessel for your real platform, the Playstation the brand. With PS4, you're buying hardware. With XBO, you're buying hardware. With NX, you'll be joining a platform. Completely different philosophies, and one that must be at the heart of your hardware design to work. It's clearly not at the heart of those, and that's not a bad thing, but it's definitely not a rectifiable thing either. And to say that an all digital, steam-like unified platform for consoles isn't new is comedy gold. |
i am not following you.... what is this all digital platform you keep speaking of? or this "unified platform" thing? I can't help but feel that you are getting carried away by the idea of something and totally overlooking its practicality or real world application.
If by all digital you mean that the only way to get games is via download and that you think that could somehow be a "game changer" then I have nothing to say to you on that.
And as for the unified platform thing? I don't even know where to begin. Tell you what though, if all the rumors pan out, by next year or so we mayvery well have this NX. let's see what happens then.
