Over on ihobo today I ask the question: are the console wars over? Here's an extract:
The home consoles are still very much profitable - but it strains the imagination to suggest they compete in isolation from all the other ways people can now play games. What distinguished the home consoles more than anything was the fact they were played on the household TV. But this venerable device is no longer the de facto entertainment hub, since a tablet or laptop – hell, even a cellphone – is just as capable of delivering the media the TV always used to have a corner on.
You can read the entirety of The Console Wars Are Over at ihobo.com.
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