Blah blah This gen will be the last blah blah Pachter

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spemanig said:

binary solo said:
-20 million for PS4
-45 million for Xb one
-3 million for Wii U

Unified platform? Yeah, I don't think so. If MS doesn't have its own exclusive platform it won't retain any 1st party studios. Nintendo could go that way, but they are already quite far down the 9th gen path so they will have their own 9th gen no matter what. Sony could welcome in 3rd party hardware if it decided the only real profit is in games and provided all hardware met a minimum standard they could position their hardware at a premium level with more features than base units and thus sell smaller volumes of hardware but at a reasonable profit per unit.

The streaming model isn't ready to take over yet because globally internet speeds and reliability can't yet make Streaming viable in all markets. It's coming though.

There's a real big issue with thinking that internet needs to be fast enought and reliable enough in "all markets" for it to be viable. It only needs to be fast in enough markets, which it already is now, and it definitely will be by 2020-22 when this stuff starts taking over traditional console gaming.

It needs to be good enough in all the markets where consoles are currently selling. If you release a streaming only device today you are cutting off millions of units in sales across the lifetime of the product because you can't release in all the countries you are currently selling the traditional console. Given in theory streaming devices should have very long product cycles, since you don't need to upgrade specs very often, you need to give yourself the biggest possible market in order to keep selling the device. I just don't see a move to streaming only devices until the 10th gen at the earliest.