| John2290 said: Don't wantto start anything cause I haven't the energy but I just have to say, you are underestimating the ammount of gamers and potential gamers who do NOT have internet or at least subpar service and also confining the medium inside the current userbase with no room for growth in your thinking here. Home gaming is a new industry and one that is still gropwing with whole generations of people and as it gets more and more socially acceptable for adults to coninue playing into adulthood less people are falling off and the industry is growing (I'm not talking console life cycles here but the industry as a whole). People who can't afford decent broadband or it isn't viable or available to them aren't purposely holding back technology, they are the market for the technology to grow, without new consumers buying in there is no industry and it is much, much easier to go buy a console than it is to go find a decent ISP and I'd wager this is the reality for the vast majority. Just because you're situation allows you to have internet capable of going full on digital does not mean everyone else does and your suggestions that we, who aren't in a sisuation to avail of fiber, speed broadband, are holding the digital market back. Its maddening that you would say that, should we just stop gaming or pay more to go digital? Also, I'm talking potential market in the case of india and talking billions of dollors/euro, not people. I also am trying hard not to be offensive but the matter is extremely gray, all the damn shades of gray. 51 shades of gray and then some. A numerical infinity of gray shades regardless of your opinion. Very uncool man. Its as if you are a millionaire telling a construction worker they are holding the economy back, complete nonsense. |
I'm not underestimating it, though. That's the thing. There is factually and objectively at least 125 million gamers who can, right this moment, jump into a digital only console platform with absolutely no issues. Because of the nature of PCs as a gaming platform, we can guess that there are at least double the amount who can, but are either not using steam or prefer console gaming. But that number is just a guess. Sticking with the facts, 125m people is almost double what the PS360 did last generation. And there's bound to be more, since that number is over a year old and it would be ludicris to think that active steam users are the only gamers with capable internet to be digital only.
The cell phone industry is new too. We have smart phones for over 10 years. Technology moves at a breakneck pace, and consoles need to catch up. And they are catching up. It's absolutely ludacris to suggest that a company should make their technology worse because of the potencial of emerging markets. Apple became the most powerful tech company in the world by not doing that. Gaming companies can and will do the same. There are more than enough people who have good internet for a digital only console market place to not only thrive, but expand well beyond what has come before.
People who don't have the means to sustain a digital only console marketplace aren't holding anything back at all. It is happening, whether you like it or not. Gaming is a luxury. My comment wasn't meant to accuse. I'm not saying that I'm mad that those people are holding technology back because that has literally never happened in any technological industry - I'm saying that I have no symathy if they have the desire for technology to wait for them. It won't, and I'm not sorry about that.
