selnor said:
Next year at Xmas the next generation in home consoles truly kicks off with the relase of one if not 2 of the power competitors of console market.
With tecnology taking the route it as over te last few years Theres every possibility next generation will be more about the multimedia experience as a whole and less about just what games it has.
Would its multimedia capabilities and communication with other devices like phones and tablets be something to influence your buy? If a home console could act as the only box you need under your TV where you could literally view anything from your current cable or satelite provider through it to linking your tablet as well, would that be part of the deciding factor over another console without those features?
Tell us. Have a vote. Or would you be happy having just a game console next to your cable box and Bluray player or whatever you have their already?
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depends on what multi-media means.
if you mean whats in bold - then no. massively no. i don't have cable, i don't want cable, and even if i did want cable getting the same experience as what the current cable box has (minus a second set of hardware) in not motivating in the least. but if there are cool new features that cable doesn't currently support (subscribe only to certain channels/shows, on demand brocasting, ability to view my subscribed services from any ps4/xbox8 i sign into so i can still catch my shows when i'm at a friends house) then i might actually care about cable again and thus these multimedia services.
doubt i would care about linking to my phone in any substantial way. i can't see a good use case for linking to my photos/music/games/maps. maybe i'd care about face-to-face phone calls but my iphone already does that anyways and i already don't use that.
so in short, i'll probably view any multimedia features as a great value adds and probably love the ones i get. netflix has been amazing for me. but as far a purchase decisions... i doubt it would make me get one console over another. i'll go where the games i want to play are as honestly, that's why i'm buying a games console.