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Davy on 26 February 2026
Cerebralbore101 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.

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. 

Their final plan is to create all kind of robots and use A.I.models to control them. If they succeed not only office jobs are at risk but workers' jobs too.

Future will show if the hundreds of billions they invest will make profits or if it is a bubble.

I hope it is a bubble otherwise we will have big problem with unemployment.

I am sceptical though because since U.S. had spent 1$ trillion for F-35 program even if they only make lethal robot war machines maby it is still success for them as a technology.

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Davy on 26 February 2026
HoloDust said:

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.

I wonder what kind of games will need streaming.

I believe the opposite: because pc technology will stagnate at some point everyone will afford to buy a gaming pc. Moore's Law death is the future.

They cannot use supercomputers for playing games, we need them for more serious sectors like science, communications, national defense e.t.c.

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Cerebralbore101 on 26 February 2026
angrypoolman said:

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

Needs to be named the Marlboro Wii'd. You get one for free for smoking 100 cartons of Marlboro cigs or $5000 in legal pot. So most potheads would be able to afford it in 11 months. 



curl-6 on 26 February 2026

With the exception of Gen 7 (and maybe 1/2) there's never really been room on the market for three console platforms.

In the 3rd gen NES dominated but everything else struggled, in Gen 4 SNES/Megadrive did well but Turbografx-16 fell by the wayside, in Gen 5 PS1/N64 sold well while Saturn and the rest crashed and burned, in Gen 6 nothing outside PS2 did well, in Gen 8 Wii U failed, and this gen Xbox Series fell off.

The most successful 1-2 systems inevitably hoover up the vast majority of consumers leaving the third wheel with little but scraps.



Davy on 26 February 2026
curl-6 said:

With the exception of Gen 7 (and maybe 1/2) there's never really been room on the market for three console platforms.

In the 3rd gen NES dominated but everything else struggled, in Gen 4 SNES/Megadrive did well but Turbografx-16 fell by the wayside, in Gen 5 PS1/N64 sold well while Saturn and the rest crashed and burned, in Gen 6 nothing outside PS2 did well, in Gen 8 Wii U failed, and this gen Xbox Series fell off.

The most successful 1-2 systems inevitably hoover up the vast majority of consumers leaving the third wheel with little but scraps.

We have 3 systems actually, PC gaming is big now and probably it is the future since consoles start to becoming too expensive and lose the advantage they had as a cheap gaming solution. I predict a 30-40 teraflop PS6 with 32 GB memory will be around 800$

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curl-6 on 26 February 2026
Davy said:
curl-6 said:

With the exception of Gen 7 (and maybe 1/2) there's never really been room on the market for three console platforms.

In the 3rd gen NES dominated but everything else struggled, in Gen 4 SNES/Megadrive did well but Turbografx-16 fell by the wayside, in Gen 5 PS1/N64 sold well while Saturn and the rest crashed and burned, in Gen 6 nothing outside PS2 did well, in Gen 8 Wii U failed, and this gen Xbox Series fell off.

The most successful 1-2 systems inevitably hoover up the vast majority of consumers leaving the third wheel with little but scraps.

We have 3 systems actually, PC gaming is big now and probably it is the future since consoles start to becoming too expensive and lose the advantage they had as a cheap gaming solution. I predict a 30 teraflop PS6 with 32 GB memory will be around 800$

"there's never really been room on the market for three console platforms."



Davy on 26 February 2026
curl-6 said:
Davy said:

We have 3 systems actually, PC gaming is big now and probably it is the future since consoles start to becoming too expensive and lose the advantage they had as a cheap gaming solution. I predict a 30 teraflop PS6 with 32 GB memory will be around 800$

"there's never really been room on the market for three console platforms."

Steam machine will dominate everything. :D

It will have 10 million users plus 500 more millions playing on pc haha.



Cerebralbore101 on 26 February 2026
Davy said:
curl-6 said:

With the exception of Gen 7 (and maybe 1/2) there's never really been room on the market for three console platforms.

In the 3rd gen NES dominated but everything else struggled, in Gen 4 SNES/Megadrive did well but Turbografx-16 fell by the wayside, in Gen 5 PS1/N64 sold well while Saturn and the rest crashed and burned, in Gen 6 nothing outside PS2 did well, in Gen 8 Wii U failed, and this gen Xbox Series fell off.

The most successful 1-2 systems inevitably hoover up the vast majority of consumers leaving the third wheel with little but scraps.

We have 3 systems actually, PC gaming is big now and probably it is the future since consoles start to becoming too expensive and lose the advantage they had as a cheap gaming solution. I predict a 30-40 teraflop PS6 with 32 GB memory will be around 800$

Ram is stupidly expensive right now for a PC. Maybe console prices will rise to catchup with RAM prices soon. But for now PC gaming has a big pricing problem. Also part of the reason why the AI bubble/boom is happening is because all these companies started making RAM and GPUs for the PC market. But then everybody got their PCs built and decided not to upgrade for a few years. So these RAM and GPU makers all had this extra inventory to sell to AI companies. And they didn't increase production until recently. So RAM/GPUs got overproduced then underproduced as a result and now AI is making it all crazy expensive. 



curl-6 on 26 February 2026
Davy said:
curl-6 said:

"there's never really been room on the market for three console platforms."

Steam machine will dominate everything. :D

It will have 10 million users plus 500 more millions playing on pc haha.

I doubt Steam Machine will sell even as much as Wii U. It's likely going to be too expensive to achieve mainstream success.

And PC is not a "console platform".



Davy on 26 February 2026
curl-6 said:
Davy said:

Steam machine will dominate everything. :D

It will have 10 million users plus 500 more millions playing on pc haha.

I doubt Steam Machine will sell even as much as Wii U. It's likely going to be too expensive to achieve mainstream success.

And PC is not a "console platform".

The last 15 years almost all PC Games support XBox & Playstation Controllers, I don't see any difference in gaming compared when i was playing on consoles. :D