/vr/ - Retro Games

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>Consoles are DEAD. They're on their way out.
By pure sales, "traditional" consoles are doing just fine. Just look at the numbers on picrelated. The 2 big consoles sell about the same if not more as in the previous gen, it's simply that PS4 has way bigger share over XB One. The market stayed about the same since PS2, despite lowering interest from Japan. If one console is dead today, it's Wii U.
Consoles really face no competition from anything. PC? Piracy killed it. TV smart boxes? They're a joke and not suited for gaming.

>Nintendo are the ONLY company making innovative hardware right now.
Biggest-selling Nintendo games are literally the same as their older games. Pokemon? Smash? Zelda? Mario? Mario Kart? Animal Crossing? Are you seriously implying they're innovative? They're all incremental updates, or slight evolutions at best.
The few exceptions only serve the rule, and unsurprisingly, other consoles also have those.

>All Sony and Microsoft are bringing to the table is "muh graficks".
Because that's what sells. High budgets mean high risks. Also, you disregard completely that Sony's 1st party output is very small in comparison. It's mostly 3rd parties that grant them console sales.
Nintendo simply know that they can't compete in that niche. That's why they deliberately went separate ways with everyone. It worked for them with Wii, not so much with Wii U.

> And Sony's next console will be yet another shit-tier PC rig with it's own exclusives.
Yes. Explain how it is bad on its own, please. It will still sell and get all the 3rd party support.