The "consoles are dead" years were hilarious in retrospect

[Mar1217]

super_etecoon said:

javi741 said:

Yea I remember how dumb alot of people looked in the early 2010s thinking that "consoles are gonna be a thing of the past and people will just game on mobile games". I would see even bigger gaming youtubers like Reviewtechusa make a video in 2013 saying that by the end of the 8th Generation consoles will be dead and people will just game on smartphones just cause he was playing a basic ass shooter from gameloft with bad touch controls on a mid range smartphone on the TV, here's a video of it right here and it's hilarious to see how poorly that take ended up being lmao: https://youtu.be/3i-OUoCOIn0

Ha, he even used as support for his argument that Michael Pachter agrees.  And without a touch of irony.

We can only be glad he's revelancy died after the start of the Switch-era proved him mostly wrong. Remember the time when we had news of his predictions on almost a weekly basis ? This was wild how people were getting fired up by something that had basically no substantial backing

SKMBlake said:

Wman1996 said:

I have a feeling Rockstar will remake RDR one day, and it will be released on PC and consoles. 

They reportedly cancelled it due to the poor reception of the GTA Trilogy 

Oh wow, they did something sound for once. I mean it's clear that a "remaster" of RDR would've prolly employed the same team of development that was behind the dreadful massacre of the original trilogy 😅