Is the video game industry inevitably headed towards a one-console future? Ben Hoyt of Emergent and Denis Dyack of Silicon Knights square off once again.
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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what Debate?
Good God! That controller has more buttons than the Jaguar!
it's called a gaming PC, if you want that, go get a gaming PC..
otherwise, leave the console world to it's own. There's room for both ways of marketing and delivering games and entertainment. Each has it's own advantage.
Sure, one console would end "fanboyism" as we know it. But that is the only "positive" that would come from having "one" future console.
On the consumer end, this would be a very very bad thing!!
One console would mean that we would have no "choice". Having no choice means that we would have to succumb to the pricing and business models of "one" particular company.
So in turn what would keep a company from charging anything that they want for their console and the games that are used on their console?
NOTHING! Because competition would be non-existent.
You all better hope that this never happens.
Remember, competition sustains a healty market.
who needs it if theres a ps3 supercomputer that has movie graphics and wont max out, leave it