Comment One console to rule them all? Yeah right. (Score 1) 154
One console to rule them all, supporting every games, supporting every keyboards, mouses, gamepads, wiimotes and touch screens, all gamers playing on a single multiplayer server, no more console exclusives titles, no more exclusive contents, no more money wasted in yet another useless console, all gaming companies finally respecting the gamers, holding hands and running around in circles in the field of smiling flowers? Yeah right.
For one it's simply too good to be true.
For two, there will always have companies that will think about jumping in the console bandwagon and force us to buy yet another console just to play some console exclusive titles. There will also always have games companies signing juicy exclusivity deals with console companies and hoping to charge us a game 2 or 3 times by porting it with exclusive contents on 3 different consoles. For them, we are just 2 legged money cows, standing in lines for days in front of stores just to get their consoles or games on release day.
You think the Nintendo's Wii will keep a monopoly on Wiimote type of games? It's a matter of time before Sony and Microsoft stop considering the Nintendo's Wii like a ugly little duck and start considering it like a competitor and follow them with their own remote, thus splitting the gaming cake in 3 shares again.
In 10 years absolutly nothing will change, instead it will probably get even worst than now, with more companies jumping in the bandwagon, creating yet another console to drain us more money, the innovations turning into more money cows to be milked and cakes to be shared, and more games companies using Ubisoft's Splinter Cell's or Rockstar's GTA's marketing strategy. Bottomline: gamers will have to whip up more and more money just to miss even more games that get released on different consoles than their own.
I wish things trivial like DVD players, TV, mp3 players, toaster would turn like the gaming world is, and that net neutrality could go to the trashcan. Maybe after paying and juggling on a daily basis 3 differents toasters, 4 differents DVD players, 4 differents TVs, 5 mp3 players and 4 internet services, people would understand what it is to be a gamer nowaday. In the meantime I continue my GTA boycott, even if that make every car scene in Miami Vice as paintul to watch as a stab in the chest.
For one it's simply too good to be true.
For two, there will always have companies that will think about jumping in the console bandwagon and force us to buy yet another console just to play some console exclusive titles. There will also always have games companies signing juicy exclusivity deals with console companies and hoping to charge us a game 2 or 3 times by porting it with exclusive contents on 3 different consoles. For them, we are just 2 legged money cows, standing in lines for days in front of stores just to get their consoles or games on release day.
You think the Nintendo's Wii will keep a monopoly on Wiimote type of games? It's a matter of time before Sony and Microsoft stop considering the Nintendo's Wii like a ugly little duck and start considering it like a competitor and follow them with their own remote, thus splitting the gaming cake in 3 shares again.
In 10 years absolutly nothing will change, instead it will probably get even worst than now, with more companies jumping in the bandwagon, creating yet another console to drain us more money, the innovations turning into more money cows to be milked and cakes to be shared, and more games companies using Ubisoft's Splinter Cell's or Rockstar's GTA's marketing strategy. Bottomline: gamers will have to whip up more and more money just to miss even more games that get released on different consoles than their own.
I wish things trivial like DVD players, TV, mp3 players, toaster would turn like the gaming world is, and that net neutrality could go to the trashcan. Maybe after paying and juggling on a daily basis 3 differents toasters, 4 differents DVD players, 4 differents TVs, 5 mp3 players and 4 internet services, people would understand what it is to be a gamer nowaday. In the meantime I continue my GTA boycott, even if that make every car scene in Miami Vice as paintul to watch as a stab in the chest.
