Steven Speilberg’s predicted that games consoles will “someday” cease to exist.

Speaking to The Guardian, the director said that, just like the old “videogame parlours”, consoles and other gaming equipment will go “the way of the Dodo bird”.

“Now we’re all playing at home and someday we’ll be playing directly on our TV sets, bypassing all of the platforms,” he said.

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Probably, but he forgets that the TV won't really be The TV anymore. It will be the display.

Computer, lights off.

Wow, there's a revelation. One day, consoles will cease to exist? Can't that be said of everything? One day the world and everything in it will cease to exist.

As for his actual point, possibly, probably, but so will physical media outright - no more dvd, bluray, etc. Everything will be streamed eventually.

I'm still waiting for my flying car.

Yeah, I think something like Onlive will eventually take off. But then there will probably be clusters of PCs running games at your local cable company central, which will eliminate the lag problems.

He's just jealous that more games are starting to doing better than his movies lol

I bet his movies make more profit than most game companies, many of which are losing money .

Is it just me of does he look a tad bit cross-sighted? Scratch that, one of his eye balls are popping out. Lol.

Um, context is missing here, is he saying the companies will go away or just the hardware?

I can see TV's being made to accommodate games specifically, but the purpose of a platform is proprietorship, when their is only one platform or worse no platform just something you can play games on, then you end up with internet.

Except if it's on a TV without the options the internet gives to the end user then you have a hybrid PC again. V_V

As long as the companies exist they are going to want to innovate, the only way to do that is to design compelling software to fund innovation, the only way to keep that going is to bring something new to the plate with each piece of software, in other words people would have to have either a very adaptable TV for inputting information without having to purchase Guitar Hero level (quantity) peripherals.

But platforms are needed for many reasons outside of just because they are there.

You need the hardware to show developers a canvass for them to imagine on, then the software to show the consumers what was imagined.

Otherwise you'll end up with a PS3 which is essentially a PSX with much much better graphics and a crappy web browser that locks up every 5 seconds. V_V (At least it has a web browser.)

and you're just jealous, since you won't inherit his $2 billion.