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James wrote:Plus Always On is a Buzzword for something that'll eventually turned off.
James wrote:I'm not going to trust a computer assembler on the future of an unpredictable industry.
~þsÿçhø~ wrote:My laptops screen is broke, how can i fix it?
James wrote:THROW DARK SOULS AT IT
Protocol wrote:Forgot to say
OnLive is nice and all
But if you want to play any video game on it at even a semi-serious level you are wasting your time, because the delay will be noticeable until there is no such thing as latency.
Magniir wrote:
I don't like Steam or games that use Steamworks because it's forcing certain things down your throat, like being forced to have an internet connection to begin with. It's fine as an option but the game industry isn't giving us the option, and that's what gets me so riled.
David Jaffe certainly isn’t one to hold back. This man has an opinion about everything and he isn’t scared to voice it either.
His latest thoughts, given to Gi.biz, surround the future of consoles, and the fact that he feels there won’t be any once the next-gen has been and gone.
The first console on his mind was the Wii U, which is a piece of hardware that doesn’t seem to particularly appeal to the developer.
“I don’t see the Wii U and say ‘oh my God I have to have that.’ But with new hardware that’s usually the case; the software’s going to drive it. Or it’s like Apple and the hardware is so elegantly designed that it’s like, ‘Oh they make toilet plungers? I’ll buy it!’ I played some games, I enjoyed Rayman… it’s not like I’m knocking it but I would say that I wasn’t blown away by any individual piece of software that was exclusive to Wii U,” Jaffe said of Nintendo’s latest attempt of at a console.
“I’ll go on the record and say that the next generation of hardware will be the last consoles. And they should be.” Jaffe continued.
“Their audience isn’t necessarily core gamers like you or the analysts you talk to, so I could still see Wii U being mainstream. But honestly though, if I had to put money down, I think that the iPhone and the iPad has basically taken the market that was so excited by the Wii and so I think Wii U is not going to be anywhere near the success of the Wii. But I don’t f***ing know – I mean I thought PSP was going to clobber the DS. I’m in the industry, I make a living in the industry, but I have no track record of guessing this shit,” which is perhaps why we have Michael Pachter.
The main point Jaffe was trying to get at is that he feels consoles are on the way out.
“While I don’t think it’s going to do as well as the Wii, I don’t think any of the consoles are going to do as well as they used to. It’s a declining market, I think. That doesn’t speak ill to any of them as pieces of hardware – it just speaks about the fact that the industry has changed, the business models have changed and the world has gotten even smaller with smartphones and tablets and the internet, and stuff like Gaikai and streaming.
“Look, consoles are going away. I think in 10 years – probably sooner, but 10 years is always the safe thing to say so you don’t sound like an idiot – but here’s what I’ll say: I’ll go on the record and say that the next generation of hardware will be the last consoles. And they should be,” Jaffe asserted.
“The asteroid has hit the Earth, the dust cloud is covering the sun and the dinosaurs are on the way out”
So what does Jaffe think will replace the void left by the lack of core gaming machines?
“You’ll probably buy a television that streams the stuff. And you’ll still have Sony, loud and proud and strong making these great, big, epic games like God of War and Uncharted, and they’ll be making great little games like Sound Shapes, but they’ll become more like movie studios for video games. I’ll be able to stream in the next Uncharted and Plants vs Zombies and you won’t even think about it. It’ll just be like I can watch a public access show on my TV or I can watch Avatar.”
Jaffe concluded, “So this is the last generation of consoles coming up. I’m going to go out on a limb, because why the f**k not? I don’t care if I’m wrong, I’m not a business guy. I think next-gen consoles are going to do 40 percent of [the sales volume] of the current gen hardware.”
“The asteroid has hit the Earth, the dust cloud is covering the sun and the dinosaurs are on the way out – but not the games! We’ll always have great games and bleeding edge graphics… it’s just going to be a new delivery mechanism.”
Magniir wrote:enter into another industry to survive.