Why Video Game consoles are going extinct

[winb83]

Realtime graphics still have a long way to go. When they start making CGI movies with cellphone processors then I will believe it.

Consoles are actually dirty cheap now. They are cheaper than cellphones. Console gaming will always be a smaller segment of the gaming market. That doesn't mean companies are going to abandon billions of dollars in total addressable market. I expect to see more timed console exclusives that go to PC after a year or 2.

Graphics aren't all that important. Sure enthusiast care but they aren't the majority of the market. Consoles weren't always a smaller section of the gaming market. They hit a peak and that's their limits. People come and people go but the takeaway is that those numbers mostly leave them at the same place. It doesn't ever really need to be abandoned when the tech reaches a certain level it will just shrink as people feel they don't need to buy them over other avenues.

Hell Apple made more in gaming revenue than Nintendo and all they do is have that subscription service and collect 30% from App Store sales. Apple isn't making any games.

Apple earned the third-most gaming revenue in 2021, outpacing Microsoft & Nintendo | AppleInsider

In 2021, Apple ranked third in gaming revenue amongst global public companies, just behind Sony and ahead of Microsoft.

appleinsider.com

Tencent the biggest company in gaming doesn't even produce a console.

Console gaming is becoming more and more difficult for companies. They in the beginning at least lose money on the hardware. The cost of producing these games continues to rise and the console business model encourages you to forsake selling to many millions to keep games exclusive to your ecosystem. If you look at it objectively it's not the most attractive avenue in the gaming business. 10 years ago most wouldn't think Sony would be pushing their games to PC but that's where we're at. I bet if the console segment was growing at a healthy clip they wouldn't care to do that like they didn't in the past.

 

[daze23]

I like how their example of companies getting out of the console business was Soulja Boy's console going away

 

[Fatboi1]

Lol I think we will always have dedicated hardware as long as NVDA and AMD is making chips.

 

[Half A $]

People will point to the Switch and PS5 sales but to that I say nothing to this day has outsold the PS2 in the home console market. Once these things get past 100 million and especially into the teens their sales trail off. Most of them can't hit a pace that lets them reach those numbers while the tech is still relevant.

I'm not saying the PS2 numbers are inflated but you'll never see another console have it's tail wag so much due to multiple factors like being so dirt cheap, being kept in production for so long, 360/ps3 not hitting the ground running and being pushed heavily in developing markets around the world like India.

PS2 was selling for $99 in 2009 and the PS3 outside of the very first version couldn't play any PS2 games, PS4 was still selling for $299 close to the launch of the PS5 which is backwards compatible.

The yards after catch of the PS2 is inflated due to lighting in a bottle and the PSX, PS3 and PS4 numbers after the launch of the next console are way more normal.

Switch will be the best selling console/handheld of all time if Nintendo drop its price and keep on the market, if they kill it off to focus solely on Switch 2 well it is what it is.

 

[Diondon]

Except Daddy Nintendo (Who we hide behind when our narratives fail)

 

[Diondon]

Yeah we gonna be gaming on our phones
FOH

 

[Fatboi1]

Yeah we gonna be gaming on our phones
FOH

Meach gonna be in the afterlife forums trolling like " I was right" if we have no physical consoles 300 years from now.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Consoles/hardware in some form or fashion will always be around.

However, things will be handled much more so on the server side instead of the client side. Just like how you all went from buying a CD and popping it in a walkman to buying iPods, cell phones and MP3 players and browsing for your music online.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Yeah we gonna be gaming on our phones
FOH

You will be, most people under 30 are already super comfortable playing that way.


And when you drop down to like 20 and under they prefer to play on phones and tablets.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

This thread is just indirect admittance and acknowledgement that xbox hardware is failing because there wouldn’t be a thread like this made by stan titties if it were PlayStation with a failing console or nintendo. In fact, if it were xbox outselling playstation 3:1 the narrative around console hardware would look totally different in these videos.

They just can’t bring themselves to admit what we all see on the charts every month for over a year now. Xbox as a brand is failing and there are major repercussions to not moving expensive hardware. Similar to how there won’t be a PSVR3 there probably have been meetings at Microsoft about how they’re gonna proceed with their xbox hardware.

 

[Diondon]

You will be, most people under 30 are already super comfortable playing that way.


And when you drop down to like 20 and under they prefer to play on phones and tablets.

Those are mobile games and are no real threat to console gaming

 

[Half A $]

nah man microsoft never fail, it must be the market!

Aren't yall rocking Window's Phones?

 

[King Sun]

I never thought i would see xbots hyped about M$ turning into SEGA except they won't have the fire games sega was able to produce

 

[Canon]

I never thought i would see xbots hyped about M$ turning into SEGA except they won't have the fire games sega was able to produce

well there hyped now

a couple weeks ago it was MS was running this console shyt and had the best path to the future

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I never thought i would see xbots hyped about M$ turning into SEGA except they won't have the fire games sega was able to produce

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