I wonder if history will repeat with PCs, and especially handheld PCs, a market which the Steam Deck effectively sparked into life, while Nintendo, PS, and Xbox crash and burn should there be a second Video Game Crash any time soon.
Because all three of the current console vendors aren’t doing great at all, in fact Xbox is basically already dead and even the Switch 2 seems DOA as far as exclusives go and it’s very much maligned by the press atm, while PC seems to be doing fine comparatively especially considering the success of the Steam Deck and the other PC handhelds which followed it.
In a world where you have a choice other than a walled garden, are you surprised people pick an open platform? Exclusives are never a good thing for the consumer, it is a way to control the user and deprive them of choice. About time people started wising up.
I wonder if history will repeat with PCs, and especially handheld PCs, a market which the Steam Deck effectively sparked into life, while Nintendo, PS, and Xbox crash and burn should there be a second Video Game Crash any time soon.
Because all three of the current console vendors aren’t doing great at all, in fact Xbox is basically already dead and even the Switch 2 seems DOA as far as exclusives go and it’s very much maligned by the press atm, while PC seems to be doing fine comparatively especially considering the success of the Steam Deck and the other PC handhelds which followed it.
Nintendo will not change, maybe they will get out of the US.
Sony may sack their console departments and stick to everything else.
Microsoft is already getting over with Xbox.
Steam Deck and clones will become the new handhelds, along with (possibly) Android gaming phones with controllers.
PC architectures will displace console ones.
In a world where you have a choice other than a walled garden, are you surprised people pick an open platform? Exclusives are never a good thing for the consumer, it is a way to control the user and deprive them of choice. About time people started wising up.
great question. i think it would be super difficult to predict the future of gaming technology at this point