{"id":2197,"date":"2016-02-05T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2016-02-05T11:46:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T10:46:34","slug":"the-consoles-that-wouldnt-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2016\/02\/05\/the-consoles-that-wouldnt-die\/","title":{"rendered":"The Consoles that wouldn’t die"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember when the current console generation was being launched, and there was a\u00a0widespread\u00a0idea, also shared by me, that the PS4, Xbox One and Wii U\u00a0were going to fail\u00a0in the face of\u00a0tablets, mobile phones, indie games, and all?\u00a0That the new generation was a “prayer to stop time<\/a>“?<\/p>\n

And many articles on\u00a0“Why consoles gaming is dying<\/a>“, “Consoles are dying<\/a>“?<\/p>\n

And yet here we are. Ars\u00a0Technica has an article\u00a0comparing sales\u00a0across console generations<\/a>,\u00a0with the current generation doing much better than the\u00a0previous one, on a quarter-to-quarter basis.<\/p>\n

\"Console<\/a><\/p>\n

I suspect that the story was that many\u00a0critics, myself included, were\u00a0personally jaded by console hardware, and much more interested in indie and experimental games than in the latest military shooter. But our sentiments just weren’t widely that shared. People still want new games on new hardware, even if they only look marginally better than those of the previous generation. The PS4\u00a0is<\/em> slick, and the share button\u00a0is<\/em> worth paying for.\u00a0You also buy a new console because that is where the games are going to be.<\/p>\n

Also, cloud gaming never took off (and I suspect it won’t due to latency issues).<\/p>\n

Yes, you can be wrong.<\/p>\n

PS. And Super Mario Maker is also an exhilarating experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember when the current console generation was being launched, and there was a\u00a0widespread\u00a0idea, also shared by me, that the PS4, Xbox One and Wii U\u00a0were going to fail\u00a0in the face of\u00a0tablets, mobile phones, indie games, and all?\u00a0That the new generation was a “prayer to stop time“? And many articles on\u00a0“Why consoles gaming is dying“, “Consoles … Continue reading “The Consoles that wouldn’t die”<\/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":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","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=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}