The Future of Video Game Consoles
“Digital
Landscaping”, and what does it entail tying into the entertainment/video game
industry, it involves the evolution of online interaction, marketing, awareness
and various forms of social media.
Curiosity triggered, once I realized will their be a broader landscape
for game consoles in the near future, or will it be brought to a halt after the
PlayStation 4 and Xbox One hit the market? Numerous of questions were brought
up because of all the attention these next generation consoles can conspire
with current gaming technology, even though it hasn’t been the best variety of
dedicated games for the next gen consoles. Rumors being said theta the game
industry is shaping for analysts to start believing that there won’t ever be a
PlayStation 5 or Xbox two, only time will tell. “Will there be a next
generation in about eight years? It won’t be in the shape and form we know
today with consoles,” said Peter Warman, CEO of research firm New zoo,
revealing that current people working for the industry has there job cut out
for them, to up keeping high quality standards for story, visuals and game
mechanics in developing beyond our imaginative games for game enthusiasts
everywhere. The digital landscape of game consoles is quite widespread, from Mobil,
and free-to-play games are really setting the pace of a thriving market in the
video game industry. Just for that information alone, fewer games are getting
developed on major consoles, and very little room to advance for people to continually
to invest in the next major console, because the forecast of another consoles
release in the next fives years is quite low. Warman has mentioned, “Today’s
consumer has three or four screens and the majority of gamers play across all
of these screens. It used to be a 50/50 split between PC and console, but now
mobile – both smartphones and tablets – and even Smart TVs, are impacting the
games space.” Steam is in high demand, and purchasing games through Xbox Live
or PlayStation Network, while rumors of a Steam playable console in the works,
so it wouldn’t be a bad thing for any new major consoles to be on hold for
awhile, and for current game developers to continue to master newer and faster
game engines that current next generation game consoles can showcase visual
excitement.
-A.H
