• Michael Pachter: Microsoft is preparing for life after the Xbox
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[QUOTE=Amakir;45989681]Didn't Michael Pachter say that PC gaming was dead and everyone would be gaming on consoles a couple of years ago?[/QUOTE] He also called the 3DS a flop
As long as console creators are making exclusives worth buying, the gaming public will buy these machines. Mustard race included. That reminds me, if Valve is going to step up to the plate and be responsible for the future of PC gaming, why aren't they funding AAA projects? Why isn't Valve playing the role of Sony or Microsoft? They're definitely the equivalent and they'd make the investment back. People would take it more seriously than "just a way to play multiplats at higher resolutions/frame rates" and Valve would profit off that image.
[quote]I mean, your phone will be powerful enough to power any game in two more generations.[/quote] are we sure this came from an industry leader and not someone's uncle who just got gifted his first iphone or something?
[QUOTE=bbddi;45992262]are we sure this came from an industry leader and not someone's uncle who just got gifted his first iphone or something?[/QUOTE] To be fair, I think that Android will be the next major gaming platform in the next five years. Imagine, an open source gaming console that you can upgrade whenever you want with different SKUs with different hardware at different pricepoints meaning graphical settings. ARM processors are cheap, the hardware is fairly powerful, games are already being ported to Linux and Android is pretty easy once you've already done that. It's quite possible to get the PC experience for less than $400 with this solution. People can shitpost about the OUYA all they want but it's a great piece of hardware that I've found many uses for (XBMC, Steam in home streaming, emulation). Imagine a refined version of that with today's high end hardware and official support from either Valve or Google. It'd be great.
[QUOTE=bbddi;45992262]are we sure this came from an industry leader and not someone's uncle who just got gifted his first iphone or something?[/QUOTE] he is probably talking about this [url]https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/ue4-zen-garden-using-metal-api-for-ios-8-revealed-at-wwdc[/url]
[QUOTE=Korova;45992234]As long as console creators are making exclusives worth buying, the gaming public will buy these machines. Mustard race included. That reminds me, if Valve is going to step up to the plate and be responsible for the future of PC gaming, why aren't they funding AAA projects? Why isn't Valve playing the role of Sony or Microsoft? They're definitely the equivalent and they'd make the investment back. People would take it more seriously than "just a way to play multiplats at higher resolutions/frame rates" and Valve would profit off that image.[/QUOTE] Because Valve wants to remain a private company that develops and updates their games and runs a client to provide such services. Yeah, by now they can make their own hardware, the Steam controller, but I don't think they're ready to be a full-fledge publisher.
[QUOTE=J!NX;45990131]or like PC is going to get even more massively overpowered compared to phones why do people think that phones are magically going to compare even slightly in terms of power to pc's as if PC is just going to fullstop and phones will become more powerful do they not understand anything or something?[/QUOTE] Well it's not just as simple as both are improving but the difference is the same - if you look at the best consumer phone vs the best consumer desktop the desktop is always going to be better by a significant amount but the phone is getting [i]closer[/i] that's for sure. Like wasn't one of the newer tegra chips close or better in benchmarking to a 360/ps3? Once again not trying to say the latest phone will ever compare to the latest desktop but they're certainly closing the gap a little in terms of performance
after having analysts predict that apple is doomed every day for the last 7 years, i don't bother listening to them anymore.
Honestly Microsoft will probably just stick to games and OS' s after this, if they go anywhere at all with how much people disliked W8 and things like GFWL. One way or the other, in my experience, companies don't do too good after their flagship fails, especially consoles. Look at Atari and Sega.
[QUOTE=Amakir;45989681]Didn't Michael Pachter say that PC gaming was dead and everyone would be gaming on consoles a couple of years ago?[/QUOTE] That was Cliff Blezinski, who said that like half a decade ago. Pachter claimed the PS3's specs were unmatched waaay back at the start of 7th gen, which was when PC naysaying was at its peak.
in the future, consoles and PC will merge, Virtual Reality gaming will be a huge worldwide hit... more competition for the oculus rift and sony's project mobeus will follow up... The First mmo to require a virtual reality headset will appear, and sooner or later... we will fully upgrade the virtual reality to provide out-of-body gaming just like the one's we seen in our anime shows like .hack//, Sword Arts online, and more. I don't see consoles to existing once the next two generation of consoles appear before the grand merge. sadly I don't think I might experience this in my lifetime unless someone develop a way to triple our lifespan and/or develop full-body prosthetic... I sometimes can't wait for the future to arrive here in 2040...
The only way consoles will be able to survive will be to bring benefits that PCs and phones can't match. Obviously they can't be graphical, PCs have that. They can't be cheap and casual, because phones have that. Really they'd have to go with more exclusives (whether that's exclusive games, exclusive accessories that are cheaper than what other companies are producing for PC (such as project morpheus, if they price it at a much lower price than the rift) or exclusive software (amazing gaming based social networks that can interact between all consoles but not with PC, for example). Either that or consoles have to change. Becoming less about the actual box and more about the ease of access. I predict that if consoles don't survive in other ways, they'll convert into distribution platforms (like we've already seen with the Microsoft store on W8) or ways to get the games you want more easily, more quickly and more cheap than current distribution platforms allow, so instead of buying Windows 10, you buy a Windows 10: Gaming Edition disc which you just stick into your PC that you've installed next to your telly and that will install a modified version of Windows with some features taken out (no Office, rudimentary file management) but with improved app performance, controller support in all aspects and some free games as well as immediate (if not forced) use of the app store.
[QUOTE=macdoo999;45993146] Either that or consoles have to change. Becoming less about the actual box and more about the ease of access.[/QUOTE] But consoles are becoming more and more complicated. You would buy a PS2, plug it to your TV insert a game disc and you are off. Now it has internet access, an online store, a complex UI, you have to update the drivers and stuff. The difference between using a PC and a modern console is almost insignificant.
This guy is just some securities analyst. He has no kind of reputation that means he should be an expert in this subject.
[QUOTE=Dr McNinja;45993967]This guy is just some securities analyst. He has no kind of reputation that means he should be an expert in this subject.[/QUOTE] Well, he's job is giving recommendations on game industry investments, so he does actually have a reputation. Whether he's any good at it, I won't be the judge.
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