Comments on: The Consoles that wouldn’t die

By: Jesper

Jesper — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:21:45 +0000

@Robert Ah yes. In a way the Xbox One was marketed as the ultimate convergence device, and the PS2 was also sold in part on its DVD player.

@Thomas PCs are dead! But it’s an interesting point about geographical and demographical reach. Would love to see an analysis of that.

By: Thomas Hentschel Lund

Thomas Hentschel Lund — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 13:10:50 +0000

I’d love to see that graph depicting PC sales too. “Death of PC” has been hailed way more times than console :-)

Maybe its just generally, that the market size is increasing with every new kid born onto the planet. Gaming is still rolling out into the older generation. E.g. my mother wouldnt touch games with a cattle prod – me I grew up with it. So half the world is still open space for market expansion.

By: Robert Seddon

Robert Seddon — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 17:19:27 +0000

Oh, the console (and even moreso handheld) death stories go back further than that. Over a decade ago the buzzword was ‘convergence’, supposedly an inexorable process making dedicated devices obsolete. (Of course the growth of mobile ‘phone gaming actually did come to pass, but then the new buzzword was ‘casual’.)