Hi, everybody that owns a Wii, PS3 or a X360 has more perception of the course and tendencies about living room will be like near future.

We are talking about Video on demand, Video Conference, Media Repository, Media Organizer, Gaming, OnLine Gaming, Gaming Party,  and Mobile Office thru Cloud Computing Infrastrucutre.

All mentioned on the parahraph before is True and if you reming what XBOX (1) did about online services (evolution) and X360 came so well on this feature, brings us the target of this generation, Media & Experience Share. Not to mention the HUGE sucess on Wii about Gaming Party and the revolution caused in Gaming experience.

As Sony made a join between diferent areas on the corporation we are able to expect not a PS4 but PS3 embedded on Home Theater Modules, TV´s with more features like TiVO and VoFFICE. I think X360 is a step ahead as it can be offered to all HT players in the market and sony is attatched to it´s own Corp solutions.

Gaming market has changed too, as you can see, now LONG LEGS matter a lot, a game is about a culture, about a forum, about friends sharing experineces and make meetings eazier... so... constant updates matter, online services are core business and web 2.0 will be each time more present in all senses of gaming relationships.

I am NOT a Gaming Expert or a good English Langueage writer, but I am folowing XBOX and Sony steps, owner of a Wii, and friends dedicating a long time to X360 playing (as I personally am on PS3).... so this is a provocative and personal opinion as I am a business consultant and each time I sse gaming market I see a stronger connection of the console and day-by-day experiences, being gaming or not.

Regards, Franco

In other words, PC gaming is going to absorb Consoles. That's what many people have been saying in the last couple of years.

Almost the opposite. Multimedia activities are going from the PC to the living room, whether through consoles or through Tivo devices.

PC is a solitary experience (lol), whith a complicated interface, and too much piracy / naughtyness, etc.

PS. Why do you think PS3 came up with the lame "This is living" ?

The fact that PCs are shifting into the living rooms only strengthens what I said. And Consoles are becoming more and more like PCs, and if this keeps going they will actually become PCs.

There's a reason why PC gaming is probably increasing faster than the console industry.

Is shio a joke account?

Yeap, but I think PC is going to desapear, all will be embeded HT modules... for sure..

Would there even be a point to having the PC in the living room when TV's will have built in web browsers and Netflix?

With a PC in the living room what would you do? "Hey guys! Come over to my place, I got a new PC. You can all hang out and watch me play by myself!"?

Portable is catching up with desktop.. in fact in the next 10 yrs.. they will likely merge into one. Ofcourse mosre poweful bulky desktops will always exist.. but powerful compact lappies shd be on par.

With handhelds im not so sure.

Nintendo is complacent about portable 3D power- or for that matter even console 3D power. And they do retain a considerable market share.

PSP is powerful enough but limited to UMD..and not very impressive battery life

when we see an "as powerful as xbox" handheld with 6 hrs battery life, Portable gaming would have truly arrived

MIT recently made some interesting innovation in terms of battery life. hopefully 3-10 min charges for 80% capacity shd be possible sooner rather than later, OLED should hit market widely by 2011 onwards and shd help there as well.

Entertainment Devices are getting more powerful. Pc's taking over living rooms not looking likely- case in point: lack of success of Mac mini,SONY vaio living room pc's.

Entertainment devices/consoles will likely retain their living room power.

TV's with netbrowsers sounds interesting but is also complicated. (security updates/viruses etc)

Portables is the way to go.. but battery life is a huge limiting factor..

720 is a myth? highly unlikely. MS may just release a handheld if SONY bungles up by sticking with UMD with PSP2.. first strike wins major bonus points.

Console gaming is here to stay.. thanks to our spanking new HDTV's and faster broadband. PC's will always be cumbersome compared to consoles,main factor being price. Decent gaming laptops will set you back $1000+ atleast. A console costing you only 1/5th-1/3 the price.

Funny thing is, I'm seeing PC's increasingly in the living room. Perhaps the lousy multimedia functions of HD consoles and their relative lack of quality software really won't prevent the PC from gaining a more prominent role in the average living room. You also have to remember that PC components are becoming quite affordable, I'm looking to spend about $500 on my next PC and with a 9800, 4 gigs of DDR2 RAM, and a dual core 64-bit CPU @ 2.3 GHz I should be able to run Crysis on high settings. I guess in a couple years I could buy another 9800 for $100 or less and extend the PC's lifespan to a good 5-6 years. HD consoles can't kill PC gaming.

Just FYI, you can get a micro atx computer case, slightly larger than a GameCube - here's one in green. Hook it up to your HDTV, wireless kb & mouse and it can work just like your PS3 or XB360 (plus people have found out how to use the Wii remote as an input device for the PC too). The diff is that you can upgrade your PC easily, get a better video card, bigger HD, more ram, etc. No matter how good consoles get, PCs will always be way ahead due to the fact of easy ugrading.