Microsoft: We Think The Future Is Without Console Generations

[KBG29]

bananaking21 said:

KBG29 said:
This needs to happen, and I am glad both Sony and Microsoft are moving in this direction.

The next thing they need to do is build tablets/laptops and cell phones around the PlayStation and Xbox architecture and offer a fully cohesive line-up for home and mobile computing. This is the only stragtagy that can put them on course to compete with Google and Apple.

As a gamer, I need Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo to compete and succeed, otherwise an Apple/Google future looks extreamly depressing. Trust me, I feel it in the mobile space already, if home went this way I would die.

they dont need to compete with apple and google. they need to focus on their key and core demographic and cater to them. something that has proven very succesfull to Sony this generation. if they want to compete with apple and google, they are gonna lose, while losing a lot of the core fanbase that made them succesfull in the first place. just look at WiiU

They absolutely have to compete with Apple and Google,  and Ms and Sony are not going to loose.  They only have to sell enough units to be viable and make money doing. 

 

Gaming is only a small factor in the sale of Xbox and Playstation devices.  If they don't continue to expand the capability of them,  people will just be happy enough tethering their phone or using their Amazon fire box. 

 

Console gaming is not the vacuum it used to be.  They are competing with PC,  Set top boxes,  and tethered devices.  

 

As gamers we need to make sure gaming devices maintain a strong position in the market.  If PC,  tablets,  and smartphones rule the roost,  gaming is going to turn in to a heap of garbage. Again just look at what has happened to mobile gaming since smartphones killed off Vita and 3DS.  We can't let this happen to home gaming next.