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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/08/2013 09:42 AM, Joe Landman
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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.</blockquote>
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Things like this always go in cycles. After the Atari 2600, consoles
weren't very popular for quite a few years until the NES came out
and resurrected the market. The gaming market really came back to
life, though, when the PS1 crashed the party in 1995. <br>
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Prentice<br>
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