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| Will we see another "Atari" or "Nintendo?" |
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| guilty0fbeing:
I don't think the console is dying as so many say. When people can walk into Walmart and start buying high-end PC parts, maybe. I was into PC gaming in my youth and a few years ago. Yes, computers can be super powerful and outshine consoles and be updated, but until they fix the rushed garbage known as PC ports, I'm not going back. When I was PC gaming a few years ago, I mainly played indie titles and a few AAA games. Most of the time, PC games seem to come unoptimized and broken. Nah, I'm good. Sure, a PC exclusive often runs fine... but I'm not into MMOs, I can play the Witcher series on console, and the PC exclusive list currently is blah. Also, what about the annual Madden gamers? Casual gamers? They are not jumping to a PC anytime soon. |
| Warmsignal:
I will agree with some of the above posts, "Xbox" did catch on as a generic name for game system in the 2000s and even now I still hear it. PlayStation never really caught on. It's not the lingo of the savvy these days, most gamers and collectors are more specific about which games or franchises they like to play, so they'd refer to the specific game now, rather than the console, or they might just say video games and not be specific at all. It's the older generation that still uses generic terms for the most part. This is why so many game hunting scores go awry, when the modern collector approaches them with the question "do you have video games?", it doesn't click. You have to ask - "do you have any Nintendo, or Atari?" I have on several occasions, heard older folks refer to game systems as a Sega. Once I was in GS and there was a young kid who was looking at the game Sega Bass Fishing and her grandma said "you don't have a Sega" (even though it was a 360 game). Game Boy has also long been a generic term for any handheld gaming device. In some instances, causal players had referred to console gaming as playing the Wii, although Wii is not widely recognized as being the same as a Nintendo among these groups. Try asking the yard seller about a Wii, but call it a Nintendo. They have no idea what you're talking about. There's something about the old lingo that I dig. I like the term "tape" to refer to a game cart. Even though I know it's technically not correct (although officially recognized as a slang term by Nintendo Power), I like a generic term over a technical specification. For some reason I like that better than being specific about which media format it is. "I'm sorry but that's not a tape, it's a dual layer blu ray disc formatted specifically for the Xbox One multimedia entertainment console, thank you very much"... yeah no, it's a tape. It's a freakin' Nintendo tape. Get over it. |
| burningdoom:
Who knows, now, with this mysterious Ataribox coming out. Not giving up my hopes, but I do have my fingers crossed. |
| mephitblue:
I don't see a brand dominating like Atari or Nintendo unless one of the big three drops out of the console market. That could happen, but it is not likely anytime soon. I also don't see PC gaming taking over from consoles. For most people, the era of powerful desktop computers is over. Their phone or tablet fills all their computing needs. While I'm intrigued to see what the Ataribox ends up being, I not holding my breath that it will be anything good. |
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