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Ubisoft CEO Expects Set-Top Gaming, New Apple Hardware
GamesIndustry reports on comments by Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot about what to expect from the coming generation of gaming hardware. In addition to greater integration between game hardware and set-top boxes, he said he doesn't expect Apple to stop with the iPhone as a platform for games. "We will see more customers coming to the videogame industry, and they will not only come to the basic consoles like we have today, but they will start also to come on all the boxes that you see under the TVs. TV boxes will be more powerful, and with accessibility, will help to take more people. So we will see more consoles on which we will be able to put product." Guillemot continued, "... because you saw new interfaces with the Wii, with the Wiimote, and also with the DS, with the stylus, what we see for the future is that there will be also big announcements in interfaces. And it will not only happen on consoles, but it will also happen on those TV boxes as well."
For years we played games with an Atari joystick with one red button. AND WE LIKED IT! Sheesh kids these days need to stay off my lawn.
Introducing Microsoft Vacuum 1.0 The first Microsoft product that doesn't suck.
you walk close to your future Xbox/PC with your Zune in your pocket and it'll wirelessly pick up your songs and let you play them through that system's sound system instead. Your XBox live arcade games may automatically "jump" onto your Zune so you can play them on the move
No problem on the technical side. I can see a DRM hassle though. Play your Zune sounds on an Xbox, without paying extra for it? Transfering games from XBox to Zune? In case you didn't notice, one of the things DRM is supposed to make impossible is media shifting. And of course platform shifting. I can well see that their marketing and sales didn't consider you playing a song that you rented for Zune on a device that more than one listener could listen to, so it's being disabled.
In theory a good idea, and I'd love to see it. I just don't think it's going to fly.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Why are these CEOs, and I do mean plural, intent on providing what they think we should buy instead of what the market actually wants to buy?
I understand that some men of vision can provide new markets, but this is far from the case.
They want what all software publishers have wet dreams about: vendor lock-in.
It's not gonna happen. I will never abandon my PC for gaming. Apple and gaming are antonyms. The two go together like oil and water, sheep and wolves.
so, Ubisoft CEO, I say NO! I won't buy it. Not now, not ever!
They're using their grammar skills there.