| Soundwave said: There is no good solution to smartphone games and cheap tablets. I don't even know how many traditional hardware generations there are left ... there will be a Playstation 5 for sure, but Playstation 6 ... eh. Not so sure about that. |
I agree. The fact of the matter is that Nintendo has painted themselves into a corner where they have more or less abandoned the sector of the video game market that consistently buys high volumes of video games and video game consoles. While it's nice to have your diehards, and cater to them, it simply isn't sustainable to have those diehards as your primary market, as there's simply much more limited growth opportunities. Hopefully they figure something out, because it would be a shame to see Nintendo to go the way of Sega.
As for the console market as a whole evaporating, we shall have to wait and see. I'm not so sure the world is ready to fully embrace PC gaming, and I'm not sure that a platform, no matter how web-based, and cloud-computing dependant it is, can really last on the market. People will want to keep seeing new and fresh products. I think consoles will be around for a while longer, but I think this could be the last disc-based console unless game sizes continue to increase to a point where selling a console with just a hard drive means only being able to play a handful of games at once. Either way there are interesting directions the industry could go in just around the corner.
