Poll: Is Console Gaming Slowly Dying?

[Awexsome]

It's not dying, but it is expanding. Which is just annoying for those of us that were comfortable before.

 

[Soviet Steve]

No entertainment platform is dying as such, it is all simply evolving.

 

[RA92]

PC is far simpler to make games for, and has been around for much longer than any console be cause of the generation-shifts in the console market.
And that's just it. Old things die.

Because of it's ease of access (for developers), the PC will actually pretty much live on regardless of market crashes. Along with the AAA multiplatform titles that we get (you aren't going to overlook the sales on the digital distribution, are you?), we also have high quality exclusives like The Witcher, ArmA and STALKER simply because it's not possible for those developers to penetrate the console market with their starting capital. Not to mention the entire RTS genre is gonna remain as well (waiting for the new Anno and X-Rebirth).

Saying that, no, the consoles are not dying, I don't know where you can get that notion. They are simply lengthening their life cycles, and people will be more happy that they're getting more bangs for their bucks.

 

[tokae]

PC is far simpler to make games for, and has been around for much longer than any console be cause of the generation-shifts in the console market.
And that's just it. Old things die.

Because of it's ease of access (for developers), the PC will actually pretty much live on regardless of market crashes. Along with the AAA multiplatform titles that we get (you aren't going to overlook the sales of PCs on the digital distribution, are you?), we also have high quality exclusives like The Witcher, ArmA and STALKER simply because it's not possible for those developers to penetrate the console market with their starting capital. Not to mention the entire RTS genre is gonna remain as well (waiting for the new Anno and X-Rebirth).

Saying that, no, the consoles are not dying, I don't know where you can get that notion. They are simply lengthening their life cycles, and people will be more happy that they're getting more bangs for their bucks.

You make a valid and compelling argument, and I bow to you sir.
But I'm still not convinced..

Anyways, I do agree with your opinions on consoles. They are far from dead.

 

[Woodsey]

None of the platforms are dying. They're not even evolving. They have things evolving off of them, but the PS3 and 360 are not dying because of Kinect and Move, and the PC is not dying because of Facebook games.

 

[xMelior]

Gaming PC: 1000 $
Xbox 360/PS3: 250-350 $

THIS is the main reason why consoles are taking over the gaming industries.

 

[GiantRaven]

Well, after reading the thread about Sony and Microsoft not putting out a new console until 2014 it really has led me to wonder if people are going to be willing to wait these large periods of time for new consoles.

I...what?! How often would you like to spend hundreds of your respective countries monies on a new console? Every 5 years or every 10 years? I know I'd rather take the option that saves me money.

Also, when new consoles come out, the first few games are almost always terrible as developers are not used to using the new tools they have. On the other hand, games released towards the end of a consoles lifespan tend to be technologically far superior. Isn't it better to allow developers more time using the same set of tools, pushing the boundaries of what they can do?

 

[Shirokurou]

What do you call a console? By such logic consoles will never die.

 

[Pearwood]

I'll never understand PC gamers, it's like they think spending hundreds of pounds on some upgrade every year or so is the norm... no, console generations are long and most of the games made today don't run either the PS3/360 to their best abilities.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

Waiting longer for another graphically maxed out console is a GOOD thing. Graphics aren't getting any better, We don't need entirely new consoles to get their. We have the Internet, we can update them from there.

It isn't dying, but more-so retreating back to a more original form. The boost to the market that the past 2 call of duty games gave it is sort of fading.

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Is console gaming dying? No, I would say it's completely the opposite. People aren't willing to shell out the thousands of dollars to keep their PC top of the line anymore. Thus, they pay the 300 dollars for a self-updating console that they don't have to upgrade twice every year with a new piece that could potentially cost hundreds more. I would say PC gaming is actually the one that's dying. PC gamers are becoming fewer and fewer because of the lure of cheaper more cost effective consoles.

 

[jpoon]

Hah, dying? The OP must forget that these corporations are making more profits off of consoles than they ever could with computer games, and more than the movie industry could ever hope to. No, consoles are nowhere close to dying.

 

[AgentNein]

Will say this, as an oldschool console gamer I have actually grown pretty bored with the vast majority of console games, from their lack of trying much really new to the just at times stupid lengthiness of them.

Recently I've been spoiled by the modding and indie scenes on my PC though. There's a certain adventure and try anything attitude that I just rarely see on consoles. It's not all perfect, and there's a lot of crap (as there is anytime you make an art or craft accessible to everyone), but there are a lot of awesome things too.

 

[Jkudo]

No, they are not dying, but not evolving either, but rather that I see them are stagnating and mutating. And I am not meaning this in the cool from Mr Mayer to Radioactive Man way. Consoles are the biggest market, and being that, it's the most aweful thing for anybody who calls himself a gamer, that we will have to wait another half decade to get rid of the hardware which is on stoneage niveau yet allready, especially if you are one of the pitfully creatures, which still prefer the pc to play games.

Not having a new console for the next five years simple means that we'll stuck with the same graphics, gameplay, physix and ai, which we allready had back in 2007 with crysis and why the hell can this be good thing for anybody, who has just the slightest aspiration for development? I mean, imagine that, a game which was released four years ago is still the best looking game in the business. And I know, I know, people say that "graphic isn't so important" ... but guess what, it isn't just the graphic which is stuck in the past, also it's the, allegedly so important, gameplay, as it is bound to the same limitation of the hardware then graphic is. A.i, physics, gameplay, everything is hold back by systems which are litteraly from another decade and yet we won't get something new for the next five years? And people are acting like that is really a good thing, as "they haven't wasted their money for nothing" ... those consoles are freaking 7 years old and for their biggest time, they cost less then 300 bugs and thats not even half a dollar / euro per day, even when you bought your first one after a freaking half decade after release, and something you could pay out your money box, if you saved the spare of your lunch money everyday.

Anyway, they are not dying, even when they should.

Wait...How is bad AI due to out of date consoles? Developers also don't put that much work into physics, its only a few games that actually put work into it. Havok is still a wonderful thing. Also how is gameplay held back? If developers want better ai they simply design better ai(not really simple). If developers want new gameplay they simply design new gameplay....which they do. Developers don't put as much work into physics as they should anyway. The developers of inversion and from dust are the only ones who seem to care about physics beyond making things explode...