Ben Cousins is trying to create a self-fulfilling prophecy. Is anyone really surprised that a mobile developer CEO is predicting the "death of consoles"?
How about Google TV? If anything I see desktop PC and Mac dying out in the next decade or less to become mobile tablets running Win8+, iOS, and Android.
His two key comparisons are the death of arcade devices and the death of movie theaters. If you look at these two things they have something in common, they offered pretty similar experiences: In both cases you had to drive to a seperate place and it was a pay-per-play sales model. The whole spectacle was inconvenient and…
I guess you're right about stationary hardware always being at least a few steps ahead of smaller portable tech if not more. Added to that, even though newer tech will be absurdly powerful compared to today's tech I'm sure developers be pushing the limits of acceptable performance so that mobile will always be at a premium…
The global melt down was slow to hit entertainment and entertainment lags behind all other growth. It's no surprise that the raise in cheap and free games coincides with this down turn. It makes sense, dollar stores and bargain bins take off when the economy turns for the worse. But as things start to improve people get…
@eld: You make a lot of good points, but I still think we're going to see a massive decline in traditional desktop PCs and laptops as consumer products. They'll stay around as servers and power computing devices for sure. I think any business that doesn't require heavy computing power will likely switch over to tablets…
Nothing says we won't be making games on tablets. Though we'll probably be hooking them up to more capable displays and keyboards when we're at work. Look at iPad VS. macbook air purchases, there are even less people buying iMacs or macbook pros. Win8 is clearly aimed at touch displays. How many consumers are going to be…
So we make a tablet, put some pc hardware in it along with an unlimited operating system such as linux or windows, attach a keyboard and a monitor and then sit at a table. But this is not a pc? The thing is, pc's will become more and more portable, and tons of people already do their work on laptops quite often, but these…
certainly an interesting presentation, and worth the 26 minutes (if he doesn't put you to sleep) but I can't help feeling he's a little off. while all his history examples are accurate enough they are also cases where the technology has been replaced with essentially a more convenient version of the same thing; right up to…