Consoles to “die out” in the next 5 to 10 years

BirdMasterLv100 · 03-28-2008, 05:37 PM

They will die in less than 5 years remember the end of the world is 2012

wezeles · 03-28-2008, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by strommsarnac

" In fact in 5 to 10 years I don’t think you’ll have any box at all under your TV, most of this stuff will be “virtualized” as web services by your content provider.”"

This I believe. LONG before Google released their "office" web apps, Microsoft had a version. I was a tester for Office-Online SEVEN years ago. Anytime I wanted to use Word, Excel, Powerpoint I simply went to a secure microsoft website and there they were.

It was Microsoft's plan that once broadband Internet hit an undisclosed saturation in the US, they would release it to the public. Cheap too, but a yearly subscriber rate. I think they were expecting $50/year. That would also allow for online storage and file transfers to other accounts. It worked VERY well, much smoother than Googles.

It would have been a win win for everyone involved, but sadly the FTC thought it would give MS too much power and told them NO. Funny that the FTC doesn't think that about Google. Another case of letting a small company get away with something they won't allow Microsoft to.

Thats the direction alot is going.
I just read an amazing book a couple months back looking just at that. Starts with the way we adapted from suppling our own electricity to eventually giving that power to the large "utility companys" to take care of supplying what we use to supply for ourself.
IT departments will be gone at each company and replaced with huge huge complexes of highspeed HD to acess companys large information. You will not buy your own products but simply "rent" them from the new "IT Utility company." Same would go for the home consumer aswell.

All we will have in the future is simply one large harddrive with our personal stuff, and a fancy video card to display it all. Everything else we will pay someone else to take care of it.

Subarnu · 03-28-2008, 05:52 PM

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Originally Posted by wezeles

Everything else we will pay someone else to take care of it.

Thats laziness for you.

PrinceLink · 03-28-2008, 06:02 PM

Well if there is no consoles there is no gaming im confused i read the article like 2 times but i dont get it No console no company WTF are the games gonna be? Someone explain plz

wezeles · 03-28-2008, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Subarnu

Thats laziness for you.

Thats consumers for you!

Why spend hours downloading programs on your computer when you can pay 5 bucks a month to have the most up to date software at all times at your fingertips? ha ha

We are in a fast paced world that keeps on getting faster, anything to save a minute or a buck will be taken on with open arms.

Subarnu · 03-28-2008, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by wezeles

Thats consumers for you!

Why spend hours downloading programs on your computer when you can pay 5 bucks a month to have the most up to date software at all times at your fingertips? ha ha

We are in a fast paced world that keeps on getting faster, anything to save a minute or a buck will be taken on with open arms.

Yeah =P

PrinceLink, Instead of having a Wii that you buy games (discs) for you have your TV and you buy/download games for it. So you may only need your TV and a credit card to play next gen. games.

PrinceLink · 03-28-2008, 11:17 PM

Ok so that means no more big 3 ok then i bet $1000 dollars that there will ALWAYS be consoles becuase if you only have a tv that play game and upgades well then that well Monopolize gaming in away so if that happens gaming would die off from lack of inavation, This is like people saying there will be one console futures its not gonna happens and consoles are ALWAYS gonna be here

Listin People first though that TV was going to be a fad and only last 10 years Well they got owned didnt they
People thought the internet was a fad and was gonna die out well there wrong again!!!

Consoles well be here as long as we live are lives because without them its just not possible

Subarnu · 03-28-2008, 11:27 PM

If this were to happen then the big 3 (if not 4 by the time it happens) will probably stay separate. Just different channels or something...

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Originally Posted by PrinceLink

People thought the internet was a fad and was gonna die out well there wrong again!!!

My mom said something about how she saw on the news (not FOX) that they will shut the internet down. Highly unlikely but I haven't bothered to check if the source was credible.

PrinceLink · 03-28-2008, 11:32 PM

Consoles will be here as long as gaming is here, also the guy in the article said that handhelds will go away and that i can beilve becuase it could just translate into cell phones but consoles NO WAY!

Well G4 attck of the show said in a article that if the internet keeps expanding at the current rate it will run out of bandwith by the year 2015 but im sure there think of something

Robotnik · 03-28-2008, 11:33 PM

Excellent Post Wezels

sagema · 03-29-2008, 12:40 AM

I disagree with the guy. Nintendo has proven(again and again) people want games. Other features are nice, and some are essential in the future. Such as chat rooms. But overall game systems will continue to exist. We are 20-30 years away from reaching the graphics limit, probably longer. Downloadable games are the future; but consoles are still going to continue to upgrade, and change as much as computers.

This guy in short is a retard. Now I feel bad for picking on him.

PrinceLink · 03-29-2008, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by sagema

I disagree with the guy. Nintendo has proven(again and again) people want games. Other features are nice, and some are essential in the future. Such as chat rooms. But overall game systems will continue to exist. We are 20-30 years away from reaching the graphics limit, probably longer. Downloadable games are the future; but consoles are still going to continue to upgrade, and change as much as computers.

This guy in short is a retard. Now I feel bad for picking on him.

Amen brother!!

Axl Rose · 03-29-2008, 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Birdmaster

They will die in less than 5 years remember the end of the world is 2012

Ya, not a believer of the doomsday crap. Remember 1999? Hah! LAUGHED at all the people in their basements! (As if that would do anything if the world WAS going to end.)

T3kNi9e · 03-29-2008, 01:28 AM

haha so true

SensesFail · 03-29-2008, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by FR.

Seeing the way the gaming industry is now, I can't see it "die out" in the next 5 - 10 years. I don't see why companies would want to end their line of consoles when they are making bucket loads of money off of them.
The whole industry is a goldmine.

they are lucky to break even between marketing, producing, and distributing them. usually companys dont see a profit until the last year or two of the consoles life.

wezeles · 03-29-2008, 07:46 AM

Exactly, that goes for just about everthing tech related today. Phones/Mp3's/Laptops/PC's/DVD/Video game consoles. For the most part electronics is not really a profitable buisness to be in unless you make money of things attached to it such as movies, games, updates, attachments ect. ect. The cost doesn't come down on making these items untill just before the next update comes out and then your back in the vicious circle.

You toss the high end technology out on the market to get the consumers in and then rely on them purchasing things for the device in order to make your money back and hopefully a profit.risky buisness to say the least.

This isn't about games going away or the concept of a console going away. This is about things being joined as one large unit because of the cost to develop them and the savings involved with this.

Your new mobile device will be a Cell phone/PDA/Digital camera/handheld game/Mp3 player ect. ect. all in one.

Same for your home entertainment your DVD/Cable,Satelite/Game Console/Stereo/Surround sound can all be cram packed into one box. The software can be updated quickly and eaisly without you even knowing, and everything you need to buy for such a devices will be right at your finger tips to download for a fraction of the cost. There will still be plenty of different companies making these "all in one" devices, but they will be universal for the most part with maybe some exclusive content to draw in customers much like with consoles today. Beyond that you would just go buy a new device to meet the specs you want at the time. Simple concept and it is deffinately the direction we are heading so far.

alexbel · 03-29-2008, 08:19 AM

they are making a xbox 720 (360 + 360)
and i read somewhere nintendo is making a secend wii
and the playstation 4 will be made i read a while ago

mgbl3 · 03-29-2008, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by PrinceLink

Consoles will be here as long as gaming is here, also the guy in the article said that handhelds will go away and that i can beilve becuase it could just translate into cell phones but consoles NO WAY!

Well G4 attck of the show said in a article that if the internet keeps expanding at the current rate it will run out of bandwith by the year 2015 but im sure there think of something

You're kinda missing the point. Imagine if sony came out with a new TV that had a PS3/Blu-Ray Player built in? It'd be a hit. Now imagine if you could use your cable service to buy games online and download them directly to your TV's harddrive. All of a sudden you've got a TV, a PS3, and access to every game out there without leaving your couch all in one package. It's kinda like that.

The point is rather than having all these different electronic devices it'll all just be built into one universal device for user convenience.

strommsarnac · 03-29-2008, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Subarnu

What is the FTC?

Federal Trade Commission. In the US they have the legal power to stop a company from releasing a product, buying another company, monopolies, antitrusts, etc.

Pretty much every country has their version.

gnahc79 · 03-29-2008, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by wezeles

This isn't about games going away or the concept of a console going away. This is about things being joined as one large unit because of the cost to develop them and the savings involved with this.

Your new mobile device will be a Cell phone/PDA/Digital camera/handheld game/Mp3 player ect. ect. all in one.

Same for your home entertainment your DVD/Cable,Satelite/Game Console/Stereo/Surround sound can all be cram packed into one box. The software can be updated quickly and eaisly without you even knowing, and everything you need to buy for such a devices will be right at your finger tips to download for a fraction of the cost. There will still be plenty of different companies making these "all in one" devices, but they will be universal for the most part with maybe some exclusive content to draw in customers much like with consoles today. Beyond that you would just go buy a new device to meet the specs you want at the time. Simple concept and it is deffinately the direction we are heading so far.

+1, for those who disagree, please read wezeles' comment again. Using "die out" is a bit of a misnomer, the term "evolution" is more appropriate. As wezeles mentioned, this direction of an "all in one" for tech stuff is happening everywhere. Even for enterprise software like Oracle and IBM DB2 z/OS (where I work)

. IMO version 1.0 is happening right now with the current gen of consoles, e.g. internet browsers, downloadable content, DVD player, etc. The next gen of consoles, most likely Sony and MS, will integrate even more functions into one piece of hardware. Before you know it the next gen Xbox will also have a DVR and smell-o-vision

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wezeles Guru of everything Ninty Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 1,149 Friends: 1 6074-3351-1151-1701	Exactly, that goes for just about everthing tech related today. Phones/Mp3's/Laptops/PC's/DVD/Video game consoles. For the most part electronics is not really a profitable buisness to be in unless you make money of things attached to it such as movies, games, updates, attachments ect. ect. The cost doesn't come down on making these items untill just before the next update comes out and then your back in the vicious circle. You toss the high end technology out on the market to get the consumers in and then rely on them purchasing things for the device in order to make your money back and hopefully a profit.risky buisness to say the least. This isn't about games going away or the concept of a console going away. This is about things being joined as one large unit because of the cost to develop them and the savings involved with this. Your new mobile device will be a Cell phone/PDA/Digital camera/handheld game/Mp3 player ect. ect. all in one. Same for your home entertainment your DVD/Cable,Satelite/Game Console/Stereo/Surround sound can all be cram packed into one box. The software can be updated quickly and eaisly without you even knowing, and everything you need to buy for such a devices will be right at your finger tips to download for a fraction of the cost. There will still be plenty of different companies making these "all in one" devices, but they will be universal for the most part with maybe some exclusive content to draw in customers much like with consoles today. Beyond that you would just go buy a new device to meet the specs you want at the time. Simple concept and it is deffinately the direction we are heading so far. __________________


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