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TopicAre video game consoles about to become obsolete
adjl
03/09/24 9:43:53 AM
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No, but console wars and exclusives are getting there, such that it wouldn't surprise me if the landscape looks pretty different within a few years in terms of how many systems are around and how standard cross-play is. Because of how much console gaming is now tied to an account and therefore a single system (digital games, friend lists, DLC/microtransaction purchases), consumers are even more reluctant to switch their console of choice now then ever before, so the potential for exclusives to motivate system sales has been considerably reduced. Timed exclusivity will likely still be a thing, but even first-party publishers have been finding that there's more money to be made releasing major exclusives as multiplats for extra sales than keeping them on one system to move more units, so expect your console purchase to matter a lot less in the long run.

Nintendo will almost certainly just continue doing their own thing, because that's how Nintendo do, but for everyone else I'm expecting more ports/multiplats and more cross-play.

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