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All the console companies are going to become software companies someday.
Smartphones and tablets have taken the place of consoles as the cheaper and easier alternative to PC, where do consoles fit in?
Segaisation
You'd think it's an industry they'd love to be out of, with the whole "sell at a loss and hope to make it back on games" business story.
The appeal of console hardware used to be that you could offer a tightly optimized experience with fixed hardware. The SNES outgamed a nominally higher spec 286/VGA PC because devs could use every gimmick and know it would work. But now the Xbox product matrix looks like a Taco Bell menu and console games are sprouting PC-style settings menus and inconsistent behaviour.
To preserve some brand value, I could see selling some sort of software pack or licensing system to motherboard makers-- your next PC will have an "Xbox Gold" badge on it and maybe a desktop icon or hotkey to boot into some cut-down Xbox OS.
Smartphones and tablets are kind of ass to play games on though. Kinda sucks if that's where gaming is headed.
Yeah, it's depressing. The 3/DS is such a good device for new types of games. The Playdate looks kinda' neat (if stupidly expensive). We If we're going to pump out generationally obsolesced e-waste it should at least be innovative e-waste that expands the medium or solves different problems.