True, but a reset would still be great.
Most people I know only got the Switch for Nintendo stuff - everything else is PS5/Xbox, but I can see the Switch 2 eating into some of their market. Not much, though, considering big games are already skipping it.
I don't think most console folks would get a PC. Most PC gamers I know are waiting for a Switch 2 emulator
Well, having garbage Dpad that makes playing fighters kinda ass, and then STILL omitting progressive triggers and thus the entire racing genre doesn't help.
Honestly my sentiments on Nintenderp as well - they under-hardware'd themselves out of main Monster Hunter titles and outright ignored racing outside of karts as a whole. Being niche is good, but being niche is also bad.
Well, Steam Machines seem to be coming back, according to some leaks... So there's some hope.
I'd absolutely love to see a modern Sega console. Microsoft only ever innovated with the Kinect, which isn't even sold anymore. Sega had some cool ideas with their consoles instead of just keeping everything mostly the same from generation to generation.
Not going to happen, gaming is such a big industry there will never be enough people losing faith to have that big of an effect.
The Kinect wasn't really innovative, it was just a glorified Eye Toy. But I do agree, Sega had their own unique touch in much the same way Nintendo does, which is something I feel Sony and Microsoft lacks. But that's all going away in the name of minimalism these days anyway.
It is just hypothetical question but in reality, repeat of video game crash of 1983 is unlikely, so depressed sales could be possible and it is not like going to crash.
I didn't know about the EyeToy until now so no idea of its capabilities, but the Kinect also supported things like tracking multiple users at once or even facial recognition to automatically sign in to your profile, so in a way Microsoft still innovated with it.
I have my doubts on that... Nintendo is too comfy just doing handhelds and they don't want another Wii U. We'll see the Switch 4 or 5 before Nintendo changes it up.
Reading this post reminded me of the classic "diminishing returns" image:
Raytracing is still really slow, so that needs improvement. Making game development easier is important, though. Games are more complex than ever with insane budgets and that shows no signs of slowing down, which leads to increased prices even though profits are up. Easing certain parts of game development allows them to focus more effort on the things that actually matter without increasing prices even more. That in part is how we got to where we are today. Early consoles and computers had much more primitive tools (or in some cases no tools at all) and as a result much of the development time was spent creating basic things that we take for granted today.Future generations tend to make previous generations more affordable.
But assuming price isn't a problem, I don't really see how future games would benefit from future hardware. It really felt like the breakthroughs made during the years (faster streaming from disk, more complex logic, path/ray tracing) haven't been used to do more than replace arcane ways of optimisation and game design with something that's easier to implement. And high resolutions have already been met, so what's next?
What I'm saying is that games peaked quite a bit ago, and the new technologies only seemingly make it easier for less experienced developers to achieve the same all over again. That comes at the cost of rising requirements for not a whole lot of gain in many games. It feels like pointless justification to keep buying new and more expensive hardware.
On the other hand, PC games generally continue to work on whatever hardware you threw them on, online networks don't cease to work based on what hardware you have, and it is much easier to expect unofficial patches that make old games playable and even have working multiplayer well into the future!
But gut feeling, after watching what trends in the gaming industry have changed and stuck over the past 20 or so years, it doesn't look promising to me. I've felt for the better part of the last 4 or 5 years that we are in fact on the way towards a gaming industry crash/deflation in which digital distribution platforms and indie games will thrive, AAA titles will become less prevalent due to market conditions, and the big consoles that connect to your TV like Xbox and Playstation are no more and instead replaced by handhelds/micro-consoles that are able to dock to your TV and in some cases leverage cloud gaming solutions to make up for lack of horsepower. A lot of it boils down to the industry giants pricing themselves out of the very market they created.
This takes me back to DS vs PSP in a way - crappy touch-gimmick only really worked for a handful of now sadly dead-and-buried, half of which underdeveloped at launch, games. And that was it, aside from price difference. Sony dominated by bringing a "boring old" media player/PS2 to portability and IMHO absolutely killed it doing so, aside from typical money-grab memory casings. Nintenderp ought to have focused on quirky games without quirky ways to control the games that made zero sense to casuals akin to proper gamers aside from fitness games that literally no one really got into to date.
Look, I loved my PSP, how would I not love it if TiTS was there to be played among many other great games.
Video player, saves you those, music player, saved you iCrap, and you got your fave PS2 games on the go which was the point. DS experimented at a lower price point, but did NOT give you Gamecube level titles for the most most part (or even when it sorta did, it was no PS2).
