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Forums - Gaming - Do you predict any company to cover Microsoft's place on console market ?

Davy 17 hours ago
Darwinianevolution said:

Unless Steam actually manages to carve out a niche, the time of dedicated consoles is going to be stagnant for the time being. Younger generations are all about mobile and free PC games, and the economic situation is not that good for many to afford a 500$ box (plus subscriptions, plus 80$ games...) every 6 years.

Maby you are right because i expect next generation consoles to cost 800$ and games cost 80$, so no more consoles for Christmas present if you have to give 1k for your kid to game. :D

A tablet for 100$ + mobile gaming and problem solved.



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pokoko 14 hours ago

The reason Xbox is changing so dramatically is because dedicated consoles aren't seen as the future but as a fragment of the past that is only going to be mainstream for a little while longer. Microsoft is betting on the cloud, it just hasn't happened as fast as they thought it would (because most of them live in a tech bubble).

They're probably right in the long run, though, and it's going to suck because it's going to take "owning nothing" to the next level. The icon for your favorite game might not even be there when you log in to your cloud gaming hub and software companies want that future so bad they're salivating over it.

Another ecosystem based around hardware would be seen as backwards and probably meet resistance from the establishment. Sony and Nintendo will be the last major players in that space.



angrypoolman 14 hours ago
BraLoD said:
angrypoolman said:

I was always hoping Marlboro would make a console

How many championships could they win with it?

I think Marlboro could definitely make a play for a championship if games like Super Marlboro Brothers or Marlboro Kart or Marlboro Party became hits. Weve seen weirder things happen. 



Total Championships: Nintendo - 4, Sony - 2, Atari - 1, Microsoft - 0, Sega - 0

Cerebralbore101 13 hours ago
JackHandy said:

With the gloomy forecast of AI, I suspect the appropriate question isn't whether or not a company will come in to fill Xbox's void but rather, how long will the console industry survive? Because unless you don't mind the idea of playing a computer's version of a game, the whole thing is on the edge of collapse. Even Nintendo, which have long been the gate-keepers of what is most sacred in this industry, won't be immune. When you can ask a machine to build your next game and it can do so in five minutes with only a month of human oversight to get it ready to ship? They're going to jump on board.

Personally, I'm already been preparing for the wake.

The AI bubble may pop short term. People are amazed at what AI can do but it's all a tech demo at this point. Where's the latest successful AI movie? Or Game? Where's an AI accountant that has successfully taken care of the books for months without issue? Where's an AI lawyer that won a court case? 

Maybe AI will take off. Or maybe it won't. Until I see real world results and not demos by salesmen I'm not going to worry about it. 

Also on a side note, I too am preparing to just give up on modern gaming. The moment it all goes digital is the moment I play nothing new. 

Last edited by Cerebralbore101 - 13 hours ago

curl-6 13 hours ago
JackHandy said:

With the gloomy forecast of AI, I suspect the appropriate question isn't whether or not a company will come in to fill Xbox's void but rather, how long will the console industry survive? Because unless you don't mind the idea of playing a computer's version of a game, the whole thing is on the edge of collapse. Even Nintendo, which have long been the gate-keepers of what is most sacred in this industry, won't be immune. When you can ask a machine to build your next game and it can do so in five minutes with only a month of human oversight to get it ready to ship? They're going to jump on board.

Personally, I'm already been preparing for the wake.

AI cannot create consistent high quality material, by its very nature it hallucinates and as such has no coherence or originality. It's called slop for a reason.



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Leynos 12 hours ago
angrypoolman said:
BraLoD said:

How many championships could they win with it?

I think Marlboro could definitely make a play for a championship if games like Super Marlboro Brothers or Marlboro Kart or Marlboro Party became hits. Weve seen weirder things happen. 

No need for them to make a console when lung cancer is multi platform now.



Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

Leynos 12 hours ago
curl-6 said:
JackHandy said:

With the gloomy forecast of AI, I suspect the appropriate question isn't whether or not a company will come in to fill Xbox's void but rather, how long will the console industry survive? Because unless you don't mind the idea of playing a computer's version of a game, the whole thing is on the edge of collapse. Even Nintendo, which have long been the gate-keepers of what is most sacred in this industry, won't be immune. When you can ask a machine to build your next game and it can do so in five minutes with only a month of human oversight to get it ready to ship? They're going to jump on board.

Personally, I'm already been preparing for the wake.

AI cannot create consistent high quality material, by its very nature it hallucinates and as such has no coherence or originality. It's called slop for a reason.

Pretty much. When they need a football stadium sized data center to use a years worth of water for an 8 second video. They are nowhere close to making an entire game. 



Bite my shiny metal cockpit!

Jumpin 12 hours ago

I already thoroughly replaced them long ago in the PC market.



I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.

angrypoolman 11 hours ago

You can't tell me these games wouldn't sell millions. If I were CEO of marlboro id have made these games yesterday



Total Championships: Nintendo - 4, Sony - 2, Atari - 1, Microsoft - 0, Sega - 0

HoloDust 10 hours ago

No.

I think GeForce Now is good example of how a lot of people will play in the future - your digital library streamed to you from rented server hardware. It combines having access and ownership of your library (Steam in this case, for the most part) on any other compatible device that you might have currently (or in the future) that runs those games locally, while providing you option to not have such a device, or not upgrade if you don't feel like it, by giving you server solution that is upgraded every 2 to 3 years.

That and lot of ARM handhelds that are running Steam, either natively or via translation layers.