The end of console gaming...

[+bennybingo]

http://video.foxnews...ylist_id=162838

 

 

Is it just me, or does this guy sound like he has never played a video game before in his life??? WTF???

[+Random Terrain]

I'm half asleep, but I think he said "hardcore gamers will turn into angry birds and hide in their closets with an Atari or ColecoVision."

[+HammR25]

After watching that all I can do is quote a movie.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

[AtariLeaf]

I never like blanket statements like this. Although I agree that more and more people are turning to smaller devices for gaming, especially casual gaming, the idea that traditional console gaming in front of a tv is dying is absurd.

[AtariLeaf]

After watching that all I can do is quote a movie.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bImBBTaPDY&feature=related

 

[almightytodd]

I never like blanket statements like this. Although I agree that more and more people are turning to smaller devices for gaming, especially casual gaming, the idea that traditional console gaming in front of a tv is dying is absurd.

Exactly. As soon as the phrase, "Everyone is going to..." entered the dialog, he immediately lost all credibility.

[+HammR25]

I thought the dumbest part of the whole thing was when he said something about Call of Duty costing millions to produce. Uhh, yeah so do movies. Call of Duty Black Ops has made as much money as Avatar and Activision spits out one of those every year.

[GreenDayRlz]

Yes, I wanna play a 1080p game on OnLive on my TV in 720p. Everyone knows the smart phones are the pinnacle of gaming that can take down consoles. The PS3 core has 3 cores. Million Billion isn't the number playing phone games. Casual gaming != Time wasting games. You're not pulling gamers away from consoles, you're revealing the 2 types of gamers that exist and what they prefer to play on. Market hasn't moved, it's only reached a broader audience and way to give people games. Nintendo hasn't changed this year with their systems and idea. That happened in '05ish with the Wii. The Wii controller isn't a "little smartphone", the thing is 5 fucking inches big. You need to look into gaming before you talk, especially being a casual gamer saying what the hardcore gamers will do. It's sad you possibly passed college.

Edited June 26, 2011 by GreenDayRlz

[+cmart604]

Did it bother anyone else that when they showed his name and title they couldn't spell the word Science correctly?Seriously. I'm pretty sure it's not spelled Scienct.

Edited June 26, 2011 by cmart604

[mbd30]

Casual portable gaming for the masses was innovated years ago by the original Gameboy, one of the best selling video game devices of all time. Anyway, it's a world of difference playing something on eg. a large screen TV with surround sound and playing on a small handheld device. Console gaming isn't going to die.

Edited June 26, 2011 by mbd30

[potatohead]

It's not a zero sum game.

 

Portable / casual gaming will rope in new gamers, as well as existing ones who can't always be where the nicer gear is.

Edited June 26, 2011 by potatohead

[Skarrj]

Well, that was perhaps the absolute most irrelevent, unfactual, horrible pice of dog feces trying to pass itself off as "journalism" as i have have ever watched.....and by all parties involved. Did he really say microsoft built it's fortune from gaming consoles? I cant add anything more that anyone on here already said; it is niche gaming period.

I didnt catch this jokers name but I wonder if he has a facebook or twitter we can all spam the holy hell out of.

Edited June 26, 2011 by Skarrj

[+Random Terrain]

I didnt catch this jokers name . . .

Jeremy A. Kaplan:

 

http://jeremykaplan.blogspot.com/p/resume.html

 

http://www.pcmag.com/author-bio/jeremy-a.-kaplan

[+bennybingo]

I didnt catch this jokers name . . .

Jeremy A. Kaplan:

 

http://jeremykaplan....m/p/resume.html

 

http://www.pcmag.com...eremy-a.-kaplan

 

 

Let the games begin!

 

 

[HuckleCat]

Most, (or all), of these douchebags don't realize what they are talking about.

 

People who buy iPhones don't buy them because they want a gaming system, they buy them because they want a phone. Many more people want/need phones moreso than gaming machines.

 

So, you have millions who bought a phone. Then, a large amount of these people just so happen to grab "Angry Birds" because it's a dollar, and they keep hearing everyone at the watercooler/TV talk about it. So now the phones become primary gaming devices in the eyes of retard journalists - and that's why they make the mistake of assuming that console gaming is in any trouble.

 

All because every dipshit in New York is playing Angry Birds on the subway.

[Skarrj]

his email

[email protected]

[MagitekAngel]

I don't think console gaming is dying... yet. I do, however, think that television is gradually merging with and being superseded by the Internet, to the point where both services will soon be combined in a single home device. I suspect that when that happens, PC gaming may expand and absorb the console market. We will then still be playing full-scale games in the living room, but they will be played on a standardized descendant of the home computer, rather than on a dedicated console. I do agree that mobile games will not replace console experiences.

[toptenmaterial]

Fox News. What do you guys expect?

 

Phones and mobile devices have broadened the market, that's for sure, and downloaded content continues to gain prominence. But to say that consoles are going away isn't based on anything.

[+RevEng]

My first reaction was that of everybody here - never gonna happen in any meaningful kind of way. But reflecting on it some more, I can see one way it might happen...

 

1) analysts like this guy start saying that the big money in the next generation of gaming will in smartphone and tablet devices

2) a few third party developers announce they'll be switching focus to smartphone and tablet devices

3) the rest of the lemmings start following the others

4) the console manufacturers are left with only first-party titles

 

...I still doubt it will play out this way. But if you told me the 2D platformer was going to nearly vanish in the mid 90s I wouldn't have thought that possible either.

[Karyyk]

Does anyone else hate playing games on a touchscreen? I take crap like this to heart just about as much as all of the "PC gaming is dead" declarations made by far too many console gamers. What I don't like is that I can see the success of games like Angry Birds (not to mention the Popcap games) signaling a shift by developers toward less-expensive, but highly-profitable casual games. In and of itself, that's not a bad thing, but if they think they can make more money pushing out 5 or more casual games than they could make doing a high-profile, far more risky, costly game (a BioWare RPG for instance), then they most definitely will. It's almost a parallel to what's been happening with "reality TV" on TV networks over the last decade. They can make more money for less investment making a handful of reality series (even if half of them bomb) than they can doing something like, say, an expensive science-fiction series, so there seems to be no end to that while the serialized sci-fi series seems all but dead (at least here in the States; taking Dr. Who into account in the UK). It's all about the dumbing-down of entertainment, and I'm guessing that's a reflection of the audience out there.

[+Random Terrain]

Does anyone else hate playing games on a touchscreen?

I tried doing things on an iPhone and it's too small. For example, the tip of my finger is as big as two or three keys on the 'keyboard.' How in the heck am I supposed to type anything? If it used a stylus, I'd probably like it, but I'm not whittling one of my fingers down to a sharp point to make Apple happy.

[toptenmaterial]

I agree with RT and Karyyk, touch screen gaming is extemely limited by it's control schemes, at least for now. There are some things that a touch screen enhances, such as internet use- tapping a number on a web page to dial it is just brilliant. But that's not applied to gaming. There is one game that I thoroughly enjoy on my iPhone, and that's Civilization. The rest are minigames, and I already have a system with a library chock full of awesome minigames: the Atari 2600.

[+bennybingo]

I agree with RT and Karyyk, touch screen gaming is extemely limited by it's control schemes, at least for now. There are some things that a touch screen enhances, such as internet use- tapping a number on a web page to dial it is just brilliant. But that's not applied to gaming. There is one game that I thoroughly enjoy on my iPhone, and that's Civilization. The rest are minigames, and I already have a system with a library chock full of awesome minigames: the Atari 2600.

 

As soon as something like this becomes readily available - http://icontrolpad.com/ - I think gaming may begin to evolve a bit on the iPhone. Even then, it would be like having a PSP or 3DS...not enough reason to say consoles are going away...not even close.

 

IMHO, it is just a new revenue stream for software / hardware developers...not a replacement. If the gaming companies would throw away consoles, thinking smart phones are the next wave, then our hobby is truly doomed.

 

Look at the Windows phone and Xbox live. This is not intended as a replacement, but rather an enhancement. It helps to keep the Microsoft customer loyal to MS products.

[Algus]

I doubt that phones and the iPad are going to put an end to console gaming but I can see a world in which video game consoles are no longer ubiquitous. EVERYONE had a PS2 or a Wii it seemed, even people that weren't very serious gamers. We might go back to the point where consoles have a smaller installed userbase but I doubt they will ever vanish completely.

 

Traditional gaming handhelds might be in danger though. As powerful as Nintendo has been in the handheld market, I can't see them making a phone and they might not be able to compete with phone-makers anymore.

[mbd30]

I agree with RT and Karyyk, touch screen gaming is extemely limited by it's control schemes, at least for now. There are some things that a touch screen enhances, such as internet use- tapping a number on a web page to dial it is just brilliant. But that's not applied to gaming. There is one game that I thoroughly enjoy on my iPhone, and that's Civilization. The rest are minigames, and I already have a system with a library chock full of awesome minigames: the Atari 2600.

If the gaming companies would throw away consoles, thinking smart phones are the next wave, then our hobby is truly doomed.

 

I'm starting to understand the thinking behind this. It would be like the shift from real stereo systems to everyone listening to music on portable MP3 players. It's part of the modern shift from high quality to convenience.