Topic: Is The End of Gaming Consoles Coming?

It's better to simply just enjoy what we have now. Yes, of course the only logical thing is that whatever replaces consoles will be vastly superior, but it's frivolous to waste your time thinking of that when you have consoles that work just fine and seem to get the job done.

Someone wrote a story about luigi having this idea.

It's a very good question that can be argued both ways. On one hand you have the idea that single-use devices are going to die because of their nature as only being used for one purpose, but on the other you have the simplicity and convenience that comes from these single-use devices that you don't get from all-encompassing devices. It's a very interesting argument that will only have a definitive conclusion once it's been dealt with.

It's pretty amazing that consoles have lasted as long as they have as the dominant way to play games. Usually in technology a product category gets rendered obsolete far, far more quickly, but consoles are plugging along like true survivors.

I agree with this man. Consoles do everything and more now-a-days, in fact they do most things a desktop/laptop can do. Will I fully move over to a console for my internet needs? Probably not, but you still have the ability to search the web from the comfort of your sofa on your TV and even more so with internet enabled TVs.

Console gaming will slowly decrease in time but I can't see it going away altogether, it still has a very large market. The problem is, as technology gets better, it's going to cost you even more money to afford one and I think that's where some people will give up gaming.

I think that's mostly because consoles were essentially computers for a very long time; you couldn't condense a computer onto a phone in the late 1990s. Only recently have we humans had portable technology capable of emulating almost everything that a home computer could do. There's also the fact that consoles were convenient; pop in the cartridge, press the power button, and your playing the game. Now that more and more consoles are becoming inconvenient due to updates and authentication (see; amount of PS3 updates, online passes), we are starting to question their existence.

Nope. The WAY we game may be changing, but the end of gaming consoles will not come until the end of the world does.

Someone will realize that phone gaming needs buttons

This would only happen if every gamer in existence became a PC gamer and then they decide to throw all the other consoles out the window.

It is for me at least.

Even if no new consoles are made, people will still play on their old consoles; they will become things that people will still play for 'nostalgia' and just because they're fun. And besides, 7 year old Black Ops kids wont be able to afford gaming PCs (Or parents won't buy them for their children). Another thing is, as long as there is a social aspect to gaming, people probably won't all resort to personal devices.

No.

Or, you know, intelligent use of the touch screen.

Which still won't be as responsive or accurate as good 'ole physical inputs (well, not until iOS devices, and a majority of smartphones, are compatible with stylus use. Much more accurate than a finger).

If you wanted to get really speculative...sure. But Nintendo has been known to come back from huge losses before. I agree that in 10 years the so-called "boxes will look different, but they won't entirely disappear, either IMO. Honestly, I just think everything will be much smaller and more capable, as a general rule of the advancement of technology.

Consoles are now computers that are devoted solely for the purpose of gaming for a cheaper price tag and no need to upgrade every 2 years. Once that stops being a problem, then we can say bye to consoles.

Which wont happen because Nintendo will never create something identical to a computer and will always try and innovate in the industry. Microsoft would probably have no problem turning their XBOX into a heavily DRM'd PC and may eventually just say they're PCs, but Nintendo is always going to come up with new and unique hardware until technology reaches its peak.

Unless they come up with an amazing, currently unforeseeable improvement over consoles that does the same purpose, in which case Nintendo will be all over that.

People like Pachter make me take the opposing view on pretty much anyone who calls themselves an analyst because he's proven that through his ignorant bias and being wrong about everything, he is just guessing and so is every other person with this profession. So nowadays unless the analyst actually makes a prediction that could not possibly not happen, I'm going to put up the opposing side, even though I actually can not see consoles dying before I turn 50 ( way more than 10 years if that's unclear)

Hahahahaha ok I'll admit Kirby DS games are fun, same with Ouendan, Rhythm Heaven, Mario VS DK, Prof Layton, WarioWare, and the Zelda's are ok... But Pokemon, Mario platformers, Mario kart, JRPGS (exception TWEWY), MGS, Resident Evil, and many others shouldn't be touch only

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I have an iOS stylus. Hm...

Also, by definition using the finger is a more responsive and accurate input than going through a device intermediary - pressing a button (or using a stylus) is a process. You use your finger, the middle-man device (button, stylus, key etc) recognises your input and then tells the CPU how to respond. This is a far clunkier and old-fashioned way of doing something. Using the finger (or voice, or movement) is a direct input that cuts out the middleman.

The technology is still relatively new, and people still need to be trained to adapt to the new inputs, but it becomes very comfortable with time and training.

But the problem is that a button is static; you push the button and it does a specific action, fact. 99.99% of the time anybody can rely on a button because there's tactile feedback and it is nearly guaranteed to work. Fingers are not static; they come in different shapes and sizes along with a greater chance for human error when precise movements are needed. Also, until humans create perfect voice-recognition and motion-recognition software, those two methods should not be considered in the argument.

My iPad doesn't respond well on certain things, it great don't get me wrong, just not for gaming