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Joelcool7 on 04 May 2007

In an interview with Silicon Knights conducted by GameIndustry.biz revealed that the company thinks we are headed towards a single console industry. The interview is with Denis Dyack and it talks about the future of the industry.

The interview reveals that at least Silicon views the console industry and console wars as pointless and a waist of money. He said having three platforms was difficult for developers and certain companies depend on different things for their profits.  For Nintendo Silicon Knights says they rely soully on software sales for all of their profits!

Silicon Knights predicts the console wars ending very soon with a universal console. A console that everyone would support.  He talks about how it will be much like the film industry in which all the different manufacturers support the same platform and all the film makers support the same platform!

Is it possible, A single platform for all of the companies? Could all the companies survive on a single platform with Sony relying heavily on hardware sales , Nintendo on software sales and Microsoft  just not that profitable is it possible.

What do you think is it even plausable for the games industry to eventually be limited to a single console or will the console wars go on!



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tschriner on 04 May 2007

Funny. Nintendo is the only one of the three making a profit on their hardware.



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johnsobas on 04 May 2007

I dunno, i don't really see how it would affect software sales that much.  People would still basically buy the same games they were going to buy before.



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dpmnymkrprez on 04 May 2007
Joelcool7 said:

What do you think is it even plausable for the games industry to eventually be limited to a single console or will the console wars go on!


Never Happen, look at the 3DO, panasonic had it, goldstar and sanyo, they all fell flat on their face, good idea but there is too much money to be made and too many people wanting it all in competition.



ALKO on 04 May 2007
Joelcool7 said:

In an interview with Silicon Knights conducted by GameIndustry.biz revealed that the company thinks we are headed towards a single console industry. The interview is with Denis Dyack and it talks about the future of the industry.

The interview reveals that at least Silicon views the console industry and console wars as pointless and a waist of money. He said having three platforms was difficult for developers and certain companies depend on different things for their profits. For Nintendo Silicon Knights says they rely soully on software sales for all of their profits!

Silicon Knights predicts the console wars ending very soon with a universal console. A console that everyone would support. He talks about how it will be much like the film industry in which all the different manufacturers support the same platform and all the film makers support the same platform!

Is it possible, A single platform for all of the companies? Could all the companies survive on a single platform with Sony relying heavily on hardware sales , Nintendo on software sales and Microsoft just not that profitable is it possible.

What do you think is it even plausable for the games industry to eventually be limited to a single console or will the console wars go on!


 silicon knights WERE  ONCE a good softco...

 

NOW they can only make some "blabla"...

 

MESSAGE FOR SILICON KNIGHTS:

 FROM YOU WE NEED GAMES NOT STUPID SENTENCE .

 THE UNIVERSAL CONSOLE EXIST ALREADY :IS CALLED PC.

 IN GAME INDUSTRY LIKE  IN NATURE MONOPOLY KILL PROGRESS AND EVOLUTION...

 A SINGLE CONSOLE MARKET  WILL NEVER EXIST.

 

this is only a prove that silicon knights gone crazy...