Prediction: Microsoft will launch the Xbox Two in 2017 or 2018

[Mr Puggsly]

Swordmasterman said:

Mr Puggsly said:

What worked for PS2 doesn't necessarily work today. Also, it was a popular DVD player. Portable gaming devices are also being killed off by phones given their many functions and gaming.

The masses don't a want a gaming device that doesn't do video streaming. Quite frankly, that's less value.

Yes, it indeed work, a Console just need good exclusives and good games to stay strong agaist the competitor, Nintendo, simple does not have Sucess, because their policys take consumers away, they charge too much for something that is cheaper, they still have Region Lock, and the games are locked to the Console, not to the Account.

Playstation 3, was the cheapest Blu-ray reader, so why Playstation 3, did not had the sucess of Playstation 2 ?, because a lot of games that were exclusives became multiplataform, and Xbox 360, also had a lot of good games early in his cicle, the Playstation 3, begun to release their truly big exclusives in 2009, and Beyond, the Wii, was sucessful because had the Wii Mote, and games that even who were not a gamer, played for fun, i saw the Wii, on Medical Station, helping the people with the "Motion Gameplay", so was a console with exclusives that had a lot of use, by gamers, and even by non-gamers.

I Don't believe that people purchase Console for Multimidia, is because of the Games, today we have a lot cheaper options of Multimidia, and if we had Something like the Playstation 2, just focused on Gaming, and with a lot of Good exclusives, of course would sell the same, or even more than the Playstation 2.

Master System, is the Brazilian's Best seller console, still selling on Xbox One, and Playstation 4, levels on the country until nowdays, together with the Playstation 2, more than 5 Millions of units sold, selling over 150 Thousands per year (multiple times more than Xbox One, on japan), and is just a Game Console, people buy it for the games, to play Sonic, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, and other games, people prefer to play on Consoles.

Brazil, is not alone, the Playstation 2, even after the Playstation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii, launch, the Playstation 2, still sold over 20 Millions of units from 2008, to 2012, over 5 Millions per year, nearly on a faster speed than Xbox One, is selling nowdays, and he had other 3 competitor, also other 3 Next gen consoles, to compete with.

I feel the biggest reason Wii U isn't successful is because the console is its expensive, casuals have moved away from home consoles, lack of 3rd party content, and I really feel consumers don't want that tablet controller. The things you are mentioning aren't important to the average consumer, certainly not the average person who owned a Wii.

360 and PS3 launched before streaming services became popular. PS3 was not a cheap Bluray player, $599 is not cheap for a device that play Blurays especially when you consider most people were content with DVDs. Many were still using CRT TVs at that point. PS3 started to gain steam in 2009 because it went down to $299. Notable exclusives helped push a more affordable PS3.

I'm not saying people buy game consoles solely for media. But its very important. Vita TV for example is considered a joke because its lack of streaming video options.

In regard to Brazil and Master System, you're ignoring a few things. Taxes are really high in Brazil so they relied on a 3rd party to manufacture the console there. NES would have likely dominated Brazil had they done the same thing. People in Brazil stuck with Master System for a long time because buying a modern machine is expensive. Without the bullshit taxes Brazil's console gaming market would be very different.