*why cant we be friends!! Why cant weeee be friends!*

Alright so a while back i posted up a thread about the future of consoles and directions they were heading -

Well there is no "we" as a community, if change is to be seen it can only be on a personal level of each user. It is hard (although not impossible) to change a person's behaviour.

One console future is the better future, although not likely.

Regardless.

Troll flaming is never necessary. Flaming might occasionally be necessary. Appreciation is never possible in the gaming industry, at least not to Reggie Fils-Aime, who amicably quotes "the core gamers are never satisfied, they're always hungry for more". Yes, Reggie. We're all huge and fat, with gigantic eating complexes.

See, what Reggie doesn't get is, some of us like salad, but only part of the time. We men need 16 oz. steaks for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Things like XBLA and Playstation Store are just the fully loaded baked potatoes, and competent internet services are the gravy. Companies pandering to us with apologies and promises is the accompanying beer. Nobody wants Nintendo's panzie-ass salad with weak, light dressing as a topping! It's time to drop trou and present Nintendo with our manhoods, time to force them to acknowledge that we hold our genitaelia in high regard and will not submit to anything less than lumberjack-worthy packaging, which their family-value, wholesome dinners don't provide!

This entire post was meant to be written in a satirical manner, by the way, so don't go flailing your gigantic Wii-motes at me, red-named peoples. I still love you and your healthy diets.

Ford sucks!  Chevy all the way!

Cowboys suck!  Eagles all the way!

Oreos suck!  Chips ahoy all the way!

"One console future is the better future,

"Ford sucks!  Chevy all the way!

Cowboys suck!  Eagles all the way!

Oreos suck!  Chips ahoy all the way!"

"Jayge said:

"One console future is the better future,

A one console future might be "better" for message boards, because there would no longer be fan boys and system wars. Economically, it is a worse future. Competition is good for the consumer. What is good for the market is what is good for us."

"BiggerBomb said:

"Jayge said:

"One console future is the better future,

A one console future might be "better" for message boards, because there would no longer be fan boys and system wars. Economically, it is a worse future. Competition is good for the consumer. What is good for the market is what is good for us."

Correct Competition forces the market to expand. Nintendo made a joystick, Sony used that. Microsoft made Live, Sony adopted that. Sony makes Home, Microsoft redesigns the whole Xbox Live interface and features. NIntendo makes a motion sensing controller, Sony makes Sixaxis, Sony puts a Blu -Ray player in every PS3, Microsoft develops HD-DVD drive, fails, and now is looking at Blu-Ray. Competition forces games to adapt, without developers could shove out the same shovelware and gamers would be at the mercy of them. Besides can you really see Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft all agreeing with each other? I can't."

"DARKIDO07 said:

"BiggerBomb said:

"Jayge said:

"One console future is the better future,

A one console future might be "better" for message boards, because there would no longer be fan boys and system wars. Economically, it is a worse future. Competition is good for the consumer. What is good for the market is what is good for us."

Correct Competition forces the market to expand. Nintendo made a joystick, Sony used that. Microsoft made Live, Sony adopted that. Sony makes Home, Microsoft redesigns the whole Xbox Live interface and features. NIntendo makes a motion sensing controller, Sony makes Sixaxis, Sony puts a Blu -Ray player in every PS3, Microsoft develops HD-DVD drive, fails, and now is looking at Blu-Ray. Competition forces games to adapt, without developers could shove out the same shovelware and gamers would be at the mercy of them. Besides can you really see Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft all agreeing with each other? I can't."

Must we turn this thread into another discussion on why people who are ignorant on the meaning of the "one console future" theory shouldn't comment on it?"

"but Jayge to say that shows no actual knowledge or understanding of economics - if there is no competition there is no need to improve look at microsoft each OS they release is shittier than the last but because they own the market at some point everyone will end up adopting whatever they release - even Vista try buying a PC or Laptop now that doesn't have it bundled.

A one console market would mean more expensive consoles - less originality in games, less technological advances a competitive market is a healthy market and a one console market will bring the burgeoning games indusrty to a grinding and painful halt.
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"Shotaro said:

"but Jayge to say that shows no actual knowledge or understanding of economics - if there is no competition there is no need to improve look at microsoft each OS they release is shittier than the last but because they own the market at some point everyone will end up adopting whatever they release - even Vista try buying a PC or Laptop now that doesn't have it bundled.

A one console market would mean more expensive consoles - less originality in games, less technological advances a competitive market is a healthy market and a one console market will bring the burgeoning games indusrty to a grinding and painful halt.
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Nobody ever said there would be one console. It's more about establishing a base hardware standard, much like PCs. To say it's anti-competition is to contradict the entire nature of the idea."

"to me that is not one console - that is a totally different thing entirely - I agree that a hardware standard would  be a good idea though I do not see how it would encourage competition. The main thing consoles have now is exclusives having a base standard implies that you could play any game on any console - though I would like to read more on this before commenting further."

"to me that is not one console - that is a totally different thing entirely - I agree that a hardware standard would  be a good idea though I do not see how it would encourage competition. The main thing consoles have now is exclusives having a base standard implies that you could play any game on any console - though I would like to read more on this before commenting further." Competition would be encouraged through allowing developers to exploit the hardware to its full potential, similar to what exclusive developers do now, only without having to be a segmented market, so all titles are in direct competition moreso than they would be now. It also encourages competition through hardware, as once a base hardware standard would be established, all consoles would essentially play any game; it would take creativity and ingenuity (or just upgraded features and offerings) to keep consoles competitive with each other. Multiple hardware iterations wouldn't matter for anything other than cosmetics or personal preference.

That's how I've come to understand it, anyway."

WE can't cause we like negativity, we hope others to fail to make us feel better.

Me? I tell people to take a chill pill

I remember hearing about EA trying to get the rights from microsoft, sony and nintendo to build a console that supported every game. But back then there were alot more exclusives than there are now.

Oreos suck!  Chips ahoy all the way!"

Love the Wii, sold it. In a nutshell.