JRPGfan said:
It seems the lessons they learnt are; Console bussiness isnt worth the effort, so keep the franchises that make lots of money (halo,gears,forza) and slowly try to move everything to the windows store, and get the console gamers there too (steam is very profitable, MS wants to be that). Multiplayer and games as services, make money for along time, and you can have micro transactions help you turn profits, so everything should just go that way, I mean it only makes sense from a bussiness perspective right? So all games from now on they make, will be like that. Maybe Im just being a negative nancy, but it really seems that way to me. |
While PC Gaming is cool, I don’t see consoles going away until streaming is more accessible. Sony already has a leg up on this and that IMO is the future of gaming. MS is trying to get that PC in the living room and the Onex is an attempt at doing just that, it has specs that can last a long time and for a gaming PC is still pretty cheap. What they should do is make an upgradable console I.E Small form factor PC that you can buy upgraded components for as they release them. Make the Bios only recognize official parts and have the games designed more like PC games, updates for newly releases upgrade hardware and optimizations based on your components installed. That IMO is the best stop gap until the Internet speeds and streaming algorithms allow for 4K streaming of games. It would essentially end the console race era and allow Sony and MS to update weak areas without an entire console redesign.
