Do kids still want consoles? I feel like most younger kids exclusively play on tablets now. If that's the case...

there's been rumors that google is going to release a streaming only console and that it's going to be announced next week. it's going to be a disaster though since traditional gamers don't want it, and casual gamers would barely even know it existed(like how the Ouya was)

$$$ and three parentheses on each side.

Based.

Soon most people playing video games dont remember a time without microtransactions and loot boxes, almost instinctively buying shit because thats what they are used to doing in games.
Maybe he just likes very simple games.

This.

Its all over. The next gen of consoles will probably be the last. Microsoft have already been positioning themselves for the future with their streaming app.

Hardware isn't needed anymore. Physical software isn't needed anymore. And Google's announcement looks like its going to be a streaming service to swallow up the whole industry into one cauldron.

You want to know when gaming died? It was when everyone stopped printing instruction manuals. Its been a slow death.

Its easier for companies to make them that way and people dont care enough to want anything better.

>what does mean for traditional gaming going forward?
You've been able to see it pushing it's way into games for years.

As weird as it may seem, the introduction of broadband internet was what really did us in. Sure, it sounded great on paper, but think about it; without high speed internet you don't have the ability for day-one patches, multi-gig patches, microtransactions, DLC, loot boxes, etc.
If we were still in the dial-up days, publishers couldn't do the shit they do now and this streaming shit wouldn't even be a thought. Broadband internet is a double-edged sword.

>Google's announcement next week will officially herald the beginning of the end.
Yeah, just like my Google Glasses!

>introduction of broadband internet was what really did us in

The fall of humanity

Google Glass was rejected because it looks stupid to use them out in public

I hate to admit that console gaming might be nowadays reserved to an audience who owned a console before the 2010, before the smartphone boom and the oversaturation of quick, cheap and free phone and tablet games. I want to believe that modern kids don't really know better, with how easy is for them to download the newest popular phone game instead of having to save several allowances just to buy a console game, let alone a whole console. Doesn't help that stuff like Fortnite is not only free and massively popular, but available in pretty much any popular device.

>Traditional gaming is already dead. The contained single-player experience is a rarity these days.
We just got Resident Evil 2 and DMCV from Capcom alone, two really good single player experiences. Nintendo is also getting newer single player games such as Yoshi's Crafted World or Astral Chain, and let's not forget Sekiro, the new souls-like that's about to be released. I'm sure the singleplayer market is fine as it is, I actually believe that the multiplayer market is what's currently oversaturated with multiplayer-only games with little to none singleplayer campaigns. I'd like them to go back to what CoD Modern Warfare or Halo used to do, very good and satisfying singleplayer campaigns with a strong multiplayer scene, but that's not happening anytime soon.

It depends. If the kid has friends, he is almost exclusively playing multi-player games.

>mfw i don't have to worry about any of this as a nintendie
Feels good

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everything made by google this decade looks stupid to use because they are all literally meme sci-fi concepts and gadgets that don't actually have a basis in reality so they can market to the average american even if it's a faulty product.

>And Google's announcement looks like its going to be a streaming service to swallow up the whole industry into one cauldron.

Just like Google+ did? Videogame streaming is and will continue being a massive joke until the whole gaming market has access to proper internet speeds. The whole concept of streaming alone completely splits the market apart for the simple fact that a huge bunch of the world still doesn't have access to decent internet speeds. You have US alone which suffers from the worst internet in the world unless you live in a big city, and many other ISPs in other countries still can't understand the importance of upload speeds being as good as download.

this, the only google products with actual standing are google home(since it's just a fucking Alexa), and the Pixel. Everything is stupid as fuck and fails really quickly and gets dropped in favor of the next thing.

Let me guess, she bought him one or two shovelware games and decided they're too expensive. Of course the tyke is going to go on her phone if he doesn't have shit to play on the switch.

>We just got Resident Evil 2 and DMCV from Capcom alone, two really good single player experiences

Yes, TWO games.

>We just got Resident Evil 2 and DMCV from Capcom alone, two really good single player experiences.
the fact that we have to celebrate the fact that someone is making a single player game is the biggest proof that there is a massive decline in the genre.

Bingo.

Not everything is a Jewish conspiracy.

You're...not wrong on that. I guess I just never got into multiplayer-only games, not after dropping LoL and it's horrid community after two years of playing, kinda grew an aversion to MMOs and multiplayer-focused games after that. I tried Fortine a while ago because my brother got too into it and just wasn't able to find it enjoyable, let alone fun.

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