Tiagomnh
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Quando muita gente pensava que anunciar a morte do PC era o novo preto chega este senhor com uma opinião diferente:
A única certeza que temos nesta vida é a morte, mas isto de anunciar a morte de plataformas já se está a tornar repetitivo.
FONTEGames consoles will be extinct by 2020 - that's according to online game network WildTangent boss Alex St. John.
Speaking at the Casual Connect game conference in Seattle, St. John (no idea if he owns an ambulance, by the way) said, "I am going to make some outrageous claims today... Just remember, that I am right.
"We are looking at the last generation of consoles right now. I am going to predict to you that the PS3, the Wii and the Xbox are the last generation of consoles that you either see or that anybody regards as successful in the market."
The WildTangent boss called the console space an "extremely fragile business," adding that when it comes to community-based PC and online games - which his company works on - the big publishers have a "negative advantage".
"Everything they know how to do is wrong," he said, before going off on one: "They start in a well. They think that brand matters. They think that their marketing expertise matters. They think that a pile of art work and a box matters. They have got a bunch of people paid huge salaries with years of expertise who would never dream of firing themselves because they have got the wrong domain expertise.
"And so Disney, for example, would never have funded the $200 million project to build Club Penguin, but boy they paid $700 million like little b****** to buy it after it hit the market."
Even the Wii didn't miss St. John's onslaught; he said the only thing that makes it different are the proprietary controllers. "That's the same thing that happened to the arcade video game business years ago."
The shift to PC games is already occurring, he said. He would though, wouldn't he? He makes his money from PC digital downloads.
A única certeza que temos nesta vida é a morte, mas isto de anunciar a morte de plataformas já se está a tornar repetitivo.