Gaming hardware in the 2020s?

[bunchanumbers]

CaptainExplosion2 said:

bunchanumbers said:

They will buy it and like it. History has shown that people will gladly give up ownership for convenience. We barely buy CDs anymore. We have iTunes instead. Same wiith movies. We have Netflix now. Games is the next natural step. Eventually it will get to the point where we don't even remember what physical ownership is in a decade. Access will be the new ownership.

But what about all the money companies have already made from hardware development? How would they possibly recoupe that?

By not sellling physical hardware anymore. And not selling physical games. The profit ratio will be huge. Think about it. They sell a game, and they don't have to worry about selling consoles, or games. Instead they could just sell controllers with high profit ratios and watch the cash roll in.