| zorg1000 said: Yep, the Shield family of devices are basically in no man's land. People who play mobile games do that on the phones/tablets they already own and console gamers aren't looking to buy a device so they can play late PS3/360 ports that they likely already played and most people have multiple media devices already whether its a phone, tablet, laptop, PC, console, streaming box, smart TV, smart Blu-ray player, etc. If the Shield family had its own exclusive software than maybe it could carve out a niche for itself but without that they are mostly pointless devices. |
Shield is also too expensive. Ouya was cheap enough to distantiate itself from last gen devices and still failed. There's really no point in buying a budget consoles when last gen devices have a good price and an amazing library. You could pile up all mobile games and it still wouldn't touch the 3 or 4 best PS360 games. And they still got a bunch of current gen ports, so you can even play Phantom Pain and Destiny on them.
Here in Brazil we already saw this. TecToy, the former partner of Sega here, was pretty lost when Sega went downhill. During the PS360 years they had an idea: creating the Zeebo, a console with mobile phone parts that would cost less than 1/3 of a (then) current gen device. Games would be cheap and download-only, through a 3G network that was free. It bombed massively hard. Why? It costed on par with a PS2, that had a brilliant game library. Hell, even a PS1 was a better deal. It got some games, some even decent. But last gen consoles are invencible. Because once they were the focus of the industry for half a decade. 5+ years receiving the best games ever.
