Is the day of unique consoles mostly over?

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JackHandy said:

firebush03 said:

The industry will completely collapse if console manufacturers cannot come up with unique gimmicks for systems. Furthering this graphical war will only lead to longer dev times, bigger deficits, and priced-out consumers. 

I don't think consoles need gimmicks so much as software needs innovation. That is where the industry is failing... hard. At least when it comes to the big mainstream games, anyway. Indie games have been doing well in that area for years, so they're fine. But if we want the console industry to flourish like it did in the past, you have to bring the types of games that we had in the past, games like SMB, OOT and Halo CE; games that change what we think about gaming and blow our minds the first time we see/play them. If the industry can't do that anymore, then, imo, it's only a matter of time before it all crumbles. 

VR is the true unexplored horizon, standard screen gaming (regardless of the size of the screen) kinda just is what it is, the leaps forward will be more incremental from this point on. 

You can only reinvent the wheel so often when we've already hit the point of being able to render anything at a reasonable high level of visual fidelity for standard consoles (I'll include even the Switch in that grouping).