Unfortunately I suspect we’ll get third party ‘consoles’ that are basically the equivalent of the handhelds from nthe console market, potentially locked to set stores.
The only reason we currently don’t have any prevalent under TV consoles that are glorified steam deck competitors is because anyone interested in that market is tech savvy enough to see you may as well have a PC doing the same.
I don’t see consoles dying out for a decade yet but I suspect the next step is this. That or they’ll embrace cloud gaming, where people are just streaming games of their servers, making them much harder to pirate, easier to charge a subscription for and easier to maintain and release smaller hardware changes. This has 99 downsides although does come with the upside of basically not requiring the larger tech companies to hold back innovation by generation, which may accelerate the the gaming tech industry slightly. I saw an article back when the PS5 was releasing that was basically about how a huge field of graphics tech has a boon on a major console release and stagnates with it, which is caused by so many of the people making content for high end graphical tech being people making games for consoles and there is little reason to outpace what they can perform.
All of that is my speculation from absolutely nowhere in the industry, so take it all with a big swig of salt.
Unfortunately I suspect we’ll get third party ‘consoles’ that are basically the equivalent of the handhelds from nthe console market, potentially locked to set stores.
The only reason we currently don’t have any prevalent under TV consoles that are glorified steam deck competitors is because anyone interested in that market is tech savvy enough to see you may as well have a PC doing the same.
I don’t see consoles dying out for a decade yet but I suspect the next step is this. That or they’ll embrace cloud gaming, where people are just streaming games of their servers, making them much harder to pirate, easier to charge a subscription for and easier to maintain and release smaller hardware changes. This has 99 downsides although does come with the upside of basically not requiring the larger tech companies to hold back innovation by generation, which may accelerate the the gaming tech industry slightly. I saw an article back when the PS5 was releasing that was basically about how a huge field of graphics tech has a boon on a major console release and stagnates with it, which is caused by so many of the people making content for high end graphical tech being people making games for consoles and there is little reason to outpace what they can perform.
All of that is my speculation from absolutely nowhere in the industry, so take it all with a big swig of salt.