Topic: Satoru Iwata on Consoles and Social Gaming

[KDR_11k]

Audiophiles believe music sounds better if you cover the cable in snake oil, there's no reason to listen to them.

[Ymeegod]

"I like being able to run my own servers and create new, custom levels on a whim"  LoL--isn't that what publsihers are taking away from the PC games?  *cough* MW2 *cough*   Hell now you have to have a connection on at all times just to play the freaking SP modes (C&C4, AC2, ect).

As for Golive, I really don't see the advantage.  They are charging you $15 a month just for the service making it $180 yearly for something that can't even do 720P? Lets do a five year plan: 
$200 for a wii, no annual online fee = $200
Xbox 360 (arcade is $200 so I went with that) + 5 years of xbox live $250 = $450
PS3, no fee = $300
Golive 5 year plan = $900.........yeah I don't think this is the future of gaming.

[BlackNMild2k1]

^I'll assume you were responding to me with the Golive response.

I never meant that Golive or OnLive is the future, but the their model for content delivery is the future of media into the home. in about 20~25 years time broadband/wifi(or their superior successors) should blanket most the heavily populated portions of this planet. Computers Processors and Internet connection speeds will be so fast and so many consumer products will be equipped to do more than one task, that just like today your phone is now a PC in your pocket, soon your TV will be your personal computer/gaming station/set-top box.

In the future the money will be made off of purely content delivery as any hardware will be multi-functional and in the cases of movies/tv/games a specific unit designed to play those specific things and only those specific things (dvd player, Wii, DVR cable box) will be obsolete. Next step is what the PS3 & Xbox are already attempting; combining all 3 into one. We already have TV's with built in Netflix & browser support. next step is to combine the box with the TV, maybe even with upgradeable components like a PC. but that seems to be where the tech is headed, so yes, eventually you will own a do-it-all monitor that will be hooked up to the World Wide Interwebz and you will subscribe to content providers, or pay for content that will in some ways or entirely be streamed to your Monitor.


Onlive or Golive(never heard of it) are only the first step of someone trying this approach out. Eventually all the kinks will be worked out and the tech needed for it(the idea, not the service) to be mainstream will eventually catch up.