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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/8/13 8:55 AM, atchley tds.net
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<div style="">Also, sales of all consoles are down. The new
Wii has hardly made a blip in the market. Some speculate
that the era of consoles is past given how many people
game on their phones and tablets.</div>
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The death of the console has been a nearly constant prediction for
the last 15-20 years. I heard it back when OpenGL Doom came out,
and various folks predicted that packaged software would be the end
of consoles as we know it.<br>
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Hence I tend to be skeptical on this possibility, though I have to
say, I am seeing many more people playing games on their pads and
phones. I think the consoles will adapt, and you'll see the phones
become controllers to hook into consoles.<br>
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Tangential to this, I've got lots of apps for my iPhone/iPad that
interact with my Roku. Something tells me that using the
phones/pads as interfaces to the games is coming soon if its not
here now. I don't expect to see all out replacement, more like
coopetition.<br>
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