It’s something of a regular occurrence, the proclamation that consoles are going away.<\/p>\n
Here’s Peter Vesterbacka of Rovio, makers of Angry Birds<\/em>:<\/p>\n … as mobile gaming (including games on tablet devices like the iPad) continues to grow, console games are \u201cdying\u201d. Vesterbacka scoffed at the traditional model where companies charge $40 to $50 for a game that\u2019s difficult to upgrade. Certainly, we are at an uncertain time – the current console generation has a longer lifetime than previous consoles, and Sony and Microsoft are releasing incremental upgrades with the Move and Kinect. All of the buzz concentrates on mobile and social games, yet a handful of big-budget titles in the Red Dead Redemption <\/em>and Modern Warfare 2<\/em>-class continue to generate huge sales. But the old threat to consoles (PCs and Macs) hasn’t disappeared either.<\/p>\n Will consoles go away? Only when some other device that people already have (computers, cell phones, tablets, built-in TV functionality, set top boxes) easily provides a living room experience on the big TV with good controllers. Nothing is quite there yet, but could it happen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s something of a regular occurrence, the proclamation that consoles are going away. Here’s Peter Vesterbacka of Rovio, makers of Angry Birds: … as mobile gaming (including games on tablet devices like the iPad) continues to grow, console games are \u201cdying\u201d. Vesterbacka scoffed at the traditional model where companies charge $40 to $50 for a … Continue reading “The Death of Consoles, again”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(From Venturebeat<\/a>.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n