Scott Miller: Consoles will die. They have two cycles left...

Of course they will die. COnsoles are a dead end that's choking the industry more and more. Their only advantage is lower start price. Once we reach enough hardware level to let devs do anything they want, consoles will die. If your tv, home video or phone will be able to run those games, what's the point of consoles at all? Especially since this whole model of several incompatibile platforms that dominates in console market is a terrible model considering the costs of making modern games.

In future we'll likely all play in one net system and all our devices - pcs, tvs, laptops, phones etc will just act as terminal that connects to it.

scott miller will probably die before consoles

scott miller will probably die before consoles

Harisemo

scott miller will probably die before consoles

Harisemo

Scott Miller seems to enjoy making inflammatory predictions that never come true. I seem to recall him making disparaging comments about digital distribution back in the day, so, yeah...

Who's Scott Miller? Anyway, as long as Consoles are selling like they are and always have been, which is very well, they aren't going anywhere.

Who's Scott Miller? Anyway, as long as Consoles are selling like they are and always have been, which is very well, they aren't going anywhere.

Puckhog04

He created and influenced the use of demos for games, and also was the man responsable for id's success. Basically, he was a very influencial person in the 80s and 90s, and greatly influenced gaming as a whole, to this day.

I've watched a documentary about him from machinima on youtube, a wile back..

before "experts" were saying THIS would be the last gen of consoles.... not going to happen.

He brings up some good points.

IMO consoles have a bigger chance of dying then PC does. Yet every year we hear trolls screaming "PC GAMING IS TEH DEAD!", yet every year PC gamign gets bigger and better.

Who's Scott Miller?

Puckhog04

He was a big-time mover-and-shaker back in the day when the PC gaming industry was just getting its start. If I'm not mistaken, he's actually one of the pioneers of the "shareware" model of game distribution, where part of a game would be distributed for free, and then you would send in payment for a special code to unlock the rest of the game. He founded Apogee Software in 1987 which later became 3D Realms, and he's the man responsible for giving John Carmack and John Romero their big break when he agreed to include Commander Keen in one of his shareware compilations. Unfortunately, his star isn't shining too brightly these days in the wake of the Duke Nukem Forever fiasco which pretty much bankrupted his company.

Well it's true that PC hardware prices are down to the point they're comparable to consoles and it's also true that there are no licensing fees and stuff like that on the consoles but seeing how a massive success games like the Call of Duty series are on the consoles I doubt they will just cease to be.

If the sales on the PC would be great everyone would make games for it but seemingly only some games really succeed on the PC (such as World of Warcraft and The Sims) and it's tarnished by piracy.

I think the future consoles will be even more like PCs (to my great dissapointment - consoles should be cheap and fun imo) and the systems will just merge in a way with the PC becoming more of a platform for new technologies and commercial console emulation (console ports are exactly that and I think there'll only be more in the future to reduce development costs).

What's really the problem with consoles is that their development costs and the risk of commercial failure are so high that there are only a few console makers left and even those hesitate with new consoles or look to other markets.

Since his crystal ball clearly works maybe someone should ask him who's going to win in 2012.

Of course they will die. COnsoles are a dead end that's choking the industry more and more. Their only advantage is lower start price. Once we reach enough hardware level to let devs do anything they want, consoles will die. If your tv, home video or phone will be able to run those games, what's the point of consoles at all? Especially since this whole model of several incompatibile platforms that dominates in console market is a terrible model considering the costs of making modern games.

In future we'll likely all play in one net system and all our devices - pcs, tvs, laptops, phones etc will just act as terminal that connects to it.

AdrianWerner

I'd say consoles have about another 10 years. At the very least digital distribution will surpass retail by that point.

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Of course they will die. COnsoles are a dead end that's choking the industry more and more. Their only advantage is lower start price. Once we reach enough hardware level to let devs do anything they want, consoles will die. If your tv, home video or phone will be able to run those games, what's the point of consoles at all? Especially since this whole model of several incompatibile platforms that dominates in console market is a terrible model considering the costs of making modern games.

In future we'll likely all play in one net system and all our devices - pcs, tvs, laptops, phones etc will just act as terminal that connects to it.

alexside1

He's views are plausible we'll just have to wait and see.

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Of course they will die. COnsoles are a dead end that's choking the industry more and more. Their only advantage is lower start price. Once we reach enough hardware level to let devs do anything they want, consoles will die. If your tv, home video or phone will be able to run those games, what's the point of consoles at all? Especially since this whole model of several incompatibile platforms that dominates in console market is a terrible model considering the costs of making modern games.

In future we'll likely all play in one net system and all our devices - pcs, tvs, laptops, phones etc will just act as terminal that connects to it.

GeneralShowzer

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]

Of course they will die. COnsoles are a dead end that's choking the industry more and more. Their only advantage is lower start price. Once we reach enough hardware level to let devs do anything they want, consoles will die. If your tv, home video or phone will be able to run those games, what's the point of consoles at all? Especially since this whole model of several incompatibile platforms that dominates in console market is a terrible model considering the costs of making modern games.

In future we'll likely all play in one net system and all our devices - pcs, tvs, laptops, phones etc will just act as terminal that connects to it.

alexside1

Keep being afraid of change why don't you?

[QUOTE="alexside1"][QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]

Of course they will die. COnsoles are a dead end that's choking the industry more and more. Their only advantage is lower start price. Once we reach enough hardware level to let devs do anything they want, consoles will die. If your tv, home video or phone will be able to run those games, what's the point of consoles at all? Especially since this whole model of several incompatibile platforms that dominates in console market is a terrible model considering the costs of making modern games.

In future we'll likely all play in one net system and all our devices - pcs, tvs, laptops, phones etc will just act as terminal that connects to it.

PatchMaster

Keep being afraid of change why don't you?

no they wont.... consoles are used for convience they remain for a while unless some tech comes along

[QUOTE="alexside1"][QUOTE="GeneralShowzer"] Kojima and Scot Miller said the same things.GeneralShowzer

Perhaps he needs to make some more credible game titles then...whoever he is xD

What he says makes sense and is the same stuff many many people are predicting. If (or should I say when) gaming moves completely to the cloud there is no need for consoles. Just look at Netflix it comes integrated into many new TVs. Same thing would happen with video games.Zero5000X

[QUOTE="Zero5000X"]What he says makes sense and is the same stuff many many people are predicting. If (or should I say when) gaming moves completely to the cloud there is no need for consoles. Just look at Netflix it comes integrated into many new TVs. Same thing would happen with video games.Nerkcon

No Scott Miller!!!! YOU will die!! and you have two months left *sharpens Katana*

yeah its a jk

[QUOTE="sethman410"][QUOTE="Espada12"]

Console gaming is dying!

lazerface216

pc gaming dominates? dominates what?

Consoles dying will only happen if PC is able to absorb the casual players. So the dumbing down hermits dislike won't die with the consoles. I doubt developers will be able to take full advantage of high end hardware either due to cost. Hardware exclusives will go away though.Sushiglutton

[QUOTE="Nerkcon"][QUOTE="Zero5000X"]What he says makes sense and is the same stuff many many people are predicting. If (or should I say when) gaming moves completely to the cloud there is no need for consoles. Just look at Netflix it comes integrated into many new TVs. Same thing would happen with video games.Sushiglutton