Cube Posted February 21, 2011 Posted February 21, 2011 But if there was only one console then the lack of competition would mean development was hindered. Not to mention higher prices. It's not one console - anyone will be able to make a version of the console (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Samsung, Pioneer, etc) as long as it meets the required specifications and they all run the same games. People would be able to add different media features to them and so the same machine will be available at different prices with different features. Of course, there are a large amount of issues that would need to be resolved before anyone would even consider doing this.
jayseven Posted February 21, 2011 Posted February 21, 2011 O_W; Not all forms of entertainment come in the same way you're speaking of, either; essentially you're combining gaming with films and music but leaving out theatre, ballet and opera :P Plus gaming is more of a merging between arts and games (... duh) so how do you differentiate it from forms of entertainment like sport and board games? Disregarding cloud tech for now, it isn't possible to offer a long-standing medium that music and movies have. Both of those can act on technological advances at the production stage while gaming requires tech advances to be caught up via hardware updates. Plus stuff about indie developers, multimedia hypertext novels, blah blah. yeah. Basically; art =/= entertainment. Badly worded post of thoughts. Apologies.
MoogleViper Posted February 21, 2011 Posted February 21, 2011 It's not one console - anyone will be able to make a version of the console (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Samsung, Pioneer, etc) as long as it meets the required specifications and they all run the same games. People would be able to add different media features to them and so the same machine will be available at different prices with different features. Of course, there are a large amount of issues that would need to be resolved before anyone would even consider doing this. But who would develop it?
Cube Posted February 21, 2011 Posted February 21, 2011 But who would develop it? A large group of companies, like how a large group of companies developed Blu-Ray.
Oxigen_Waste Posted February 21, 2011 Posted February 21, 2011 O_W; Not all forms of entertainment come in the same way you're speaking of, either; essentially you're combining gaming with films and music but leaving out theatre, ballet and opera :P Plus gaming is more of a merging between arts and games (... duh) so how do you differentiate it from forms of entertainment like sport and board games? Disregarding cloud tech for now, it isn't possible to offer a long-standing medium that music and movies have. Both of those can act on technological advances at the production stage while gaming requires tech advances to be caught up via hardware updates. Plus stuff about indie developers, multimedia hypertext novels, blah blah. yeah. Basically; art =/= entertainment. Badly worded post of thoughts. Apologies. It's not that I don't agree with most of what you're saying (and I say most because you really can't compare home entertainment with real live entertainment), it's just that it's a damn shame that that's the way it is. Personally I can't complain since I have all 3 consoles, but this point in time in which a consumer is forced to spend 300$ if he wants to enjoy a single piece of software that isn't available on the platform he already has is the very definition of a bad business model. Can you imagine if Uncharted 2 was available for all platforms? It would've sold 3 times as much! The only benefit this brings is to the console makers themselves. Wouldn't it be cool if Capcom, Konami, Activision, SEGA, EA, Ubisoft and everyone else got together and released a console? And then refused to develop for ps3/360/wii? 360 would die immediately and ps3/wii would be running on fumes... so they'd be forced to join the others, ah![/speculative fiction]
Emasher Posted February 21, 2011 Posted February 21, 2011 The first step is to get rid of proprietary technologies like DirectX (In favor of OpenGL) and get rid of proprietary processor architectures like the Cell.
flameboy Posted February 21, 2011 Posted February 21, 2011 It's not one console - anyone will be able to make a version of the console (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Samsung, Pioneer, etc) as long as it meets the required specifications and they all run the same games. People would be able to add different media features to them and so the same machine will be available at different prices with different features. Of course, there are a large amount of issues that would need to be resolved before anyone would even consider doing this. sounds a bit like what Trip Hawkins had planned for the 3DO and that didn't exactly work out. The consoles were made by various companies panasonic, sanyo, goldstar to the specifications outlined by the 3DO company.
Cube Posted February 21, 2011 Posted February 21, 2011 sounds a bit like what Trip Hawkins had planned for the 3DO and that didn't exactly work out. The consoles were made by various companies panasonic, sanyo, goldstar to the specifications outlined by the 3DO company. Like I said, Microsoft also tried it. Here's one made by Sony: However, Nintendo destroyed their idea with the NES.
Pit-Jr Posted February 22, 2011 Posted February 22, 2011 Wouldn't it be cool if Capcom, Konami, Activision, SEGA, EA, Ubisoft and everyone else got together and released a console? And then refused to develop for ps3/360/wii? 360 would die immediately and ps3/wii would be running on fumes... so they'd be forced to join the others, ah![/speculative fiction] Hell yes! Although it wouldnt surprise me if Wii sales doubled somehow.
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