With digital distribution now the norm and the cost of financing hardware increasingly impractical, Jacques Voller argues that traditional consoles are no longer necessary for gamers as a whole – nor a sensible investment for the manufacturers themselves.
Following the closure of 4 studios, many are now worried for the future of Ninja Theory once Hellblade 2 is released.
Because they're next come next year. HB2 won't hit some impossible metric within MS so they're getting axed in 2025. Leave gaming now MS.
Hades 2 has just launched in early access on PC and is set to come to console in the future, but will it come to the Nintendo Switch?
Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori is an open world adventure game where players will step in the shoes of a courier in ancient Mongolia.
One reason why they shouldn't: Demand
manufacturing cost is subsided as demand for product makes up for cost.
Hardware limitation? you mean you have found a machine that has no limitations?
Consoles are a great way to kick back and relieve stress.
I appreciate the points made but I still like the simplicity of buying a game disc, putting it into a console and starting playing.
Maybe I'm ignorant but when I've tried to play games on PC I always find there's something wrong that I have to fix. I just find it too much hassle.
Digital Distribution isn't the norm. Where did you pull that from? Have you heard of bandwidth? Have you heard of the lack of the online infrastructure globally to make DD the norm? Everytime there is someone saying DD is the norm, it's almost always an ignorant PC fanboy(girl) saying it because they don't like console gaming. It's not true though.
how about no.