LunarWeaver
12-18-2006, 08:16 PM
When I was talking to my brother, he made a comment about Disney getting into the cell phone business. I cracked some lame-ass joke I pretended I invented about how Disney and Wal-Mart were taking over the world, and soon I'd be playing Final Fantasy XV on Disney's new game console and it would be produced by Wal-Mart's software division.
But that sort of got me thinking... Video game consoles used to spill out from everywhere it seemed. Although the Atari was reigning as king, you really had choices of the Channel F, Atari 2600, Odyssey², Intellivision as the biggest contender. Then later came the Atari 5200, ColecoVision, Vectrex, and the SG-1000 in the later second generation. Good lord.
Most just had an NES, but there was also the Master System and Atari 7800. (Atari's mistakes, what can you do)
I can't recall anybody owning anything other than an SNES or Genesis. Turbo Grafx-16 and the Neo Geo were all but pointless.
The Jaguar and 3DO came out of nowhere trying to steal the the Snes thunder, and at this point I was old enough to really pay attention. I remember thinking the Jaguar looked neat, but I wasn't even certain what it was. It was marketed kinda horribly.
Then the Playstation and N64 came along, leaving even the Saturn in the dust even the N64 lagging way behind, and certainly the 3DO and Jaguar were crushed.
The Dreamcast didn't make it either, and that left us with the Ps2, Gamecube and Xbox, which led to where we are today: The 360, Ps3, and the Wii.
So I guess I should get to, you know, some sort of topic since nobody reads anything that's over a paragraph and this was pointless to type anyway. What I'm saying is, will game consoles ever start springing up everywhere again? Would another company even be taken seriously at this point? Can you imagine another getting into the game? I dunno, Microsoft managed it, but...
I think the game industry has developed to a point that it won't ever happen again. When you reach a place that people are so loyal they go crazy with fanboy arguments on forums, it's pretty much the established companies or nothing.
In fact, I could see consoles dying altogether like Arcades did (most everywhere but Japan anyway). In the Dragon Quest IX for the DS thread, that one analyst said the console will die and be totally replaced by portable systems. At first, I laughed at that idea, but now I'm not so sure. I really think that could happen. It's hard to tell these things sometimes.
Do you see any other companies ever creating a console in the future, or do you think the console will end with this generation before something entirely new like all portable systems, or maybe even a brand new invention, take over completely? :o
But that sort of got me thinking... Video game consoles used to spill out from everywhere it seemed. Although the Atari was reigning as king, you really had choices of the Channel F, Atari 2600, Odyssey², Intellivision as the biggest contender. Then later came the Atari 5200, ColecoVision, Vectrex, and the SG-1000 in the later second generation. Good lord.
Most just had an NES, but there was also the Master System and Atari 7800. (Atari's mistakes, what can you do)
I can't recall anybody owning anything other than an SNES or Genesis. Turbo Grafx-16 and the Neo Geo were all but pointless.
The Jaguar and 3DO came out of nowhere trying to steal the the Snes thunder, and at this point I was old enough to really pay attention. I remember thinking the Jaguar looked neat, but I wasn't even certain what it was. It was marketed kinda horribly.
Then the Playstation and N64 came along, leaving even the Saturn in the dust even the N64 lagging way behind, and certainly the 3DO and Jaguar were crushed.
The Dreamcast didn't make it either, and that left us with the Ps2, Gamecube and Xbox, which led to where we are today: The 360, Ps3, and the Wii.
So I guess I should get to, you know, some sort of topic since nobody reads anything that's over a paragraph and this was pointless to type anyway. What I'm saying is, will game consoles ever start springing up everywhere again? Would another company even be taken seriously at this point? Can you imagine another getting into the game? I dunno, Microsoft managed it, but...
I think the game industry has developed to a point that it won't ever happen again. When you reach a place that people are so loyal they go crazy with fanboy arguments on forums, it's pretty much the established companies or nothing.
In fact, I could see consoles dying altogether like Arcades did (most everywhere but Japan anyway). In the Dragon Quest IX for the DS thread, that one analyst said the console will die and be totally replaced by portable systems. At first, I laughed at that idea, but now I'm not so sure. I really think that could happen. It's hard to tell these things sometimes.
Do you see any other companies ever creating a console in the future, or do you think the console will end with this generation before something entirely new like all portable systems, or maybe even a brand new invention, take over completely? :o