On 05/08/2013 09:42 AM, Joe Landman wrote:
On 5/8/13 8:55 AM, atchley tds.net wrote:
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Also, sales of all consoles are down. The new Wii has hardly made a
blip in the market. Some speculate that the era of consoles is past
given how many people game on their phones and tablets.
The death of the console has been a nearly constant prediction for the
last 15-20 years. I heard it back when OpenGL Doom came out, and
various folks predicted that packaged software would be the end of
consoles as we know it.
Hence I tend to be skeptical on this possibility, though I have to
say, I am seeing many more people playing games on their pads and
phones. I think the consoles will adapt, and you'll see the phones
become controllers to hook into consoles.
Things like this always go in cycles. After the Atari 2600, consoles
weren't very popular for quite a few years until the NES came out and
resurrected the market. The gaming market really came back to life,
though, when the PS1 crashed the party in 1995.
Prentice
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