Forbes - Is the death of consoles inevitable?

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Lawlight said:

Soundwave said:

I think so yes. We are closer to the end than we are to the beginning for sure.

Our kids will laugh at us when we say we needed a shoe box sized "machine" to sit under the television to play video games on which come on plate-sized shiny discs that you had to buy one at a time from the store. They likely will have no concept of that idea at all.

I've always kinda said this but I think there will be a Playstation 5 ... sure. But Playstation 6 ... nope. Not in a traditional sense.

I kinda feel bad if you love consoles, but are just getting into it now or recently. The 80s/90s/2000s were the zenith of consoles, we are now heading towards the extinction phase. 

So, we'll use magic to stream games straight to our brains?

There are lots of things today that would seem like "magic" 15 years ago. 

If you told someone in the year 1999/2000 that you'd be able to carry around a device the size of half a deck of cards that can store thousands of CDs worth of music on it in 1s and 0s a lot of people wouldn't believe it, and that's just a iPod, which is laughably outdated compared to an iPhone. 

Or you could just watch thousands of movies ala carte at home instantly with the click of a button rather than having to go to Blockbuster Video to rent them like everyone did in the past. 

There will be plenty of things your kids laugh at, game consoles is likely one of them. 

In the future I imagine likely all your movies/games/music etc. will be streamed to whatever device you feel like playing on, physical media and dedicated consoles will go the way of the dodo and dinosaur. 

That and in 10-15 years even pocket smartphone devices will be able to generate incredibly high end visuals, rendering a giant sized console moot.