The Tiny Console Killers Taking On the PS4 and Xbox 720

An anonymous reader writes "As the next generation of consoles looms, we've seen a growing trend towards low price, compact alternatives such as the Ouya and GameStick, many of which run on the Android mobile platform. But this article on the trend raises a very good point: through the use of cloud computing and game streaming technology, it's entirely possible these machines will be able to keep pace with the powerhouse technology inside the Sony PS4 and Microsoft Xbox 720, and perhaps even overtake them. After all, if these little boxes can simply stream from powerful servers, how can the stalwarts of gaming keep up?"

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Re:I don't understand

[mjwx]

Seriously? Street Fighter?

None of these games have "depth?"

Credibility shot right there.

Street fighter is an arcade game, you might be too young to remember but street fighter debued in the arcade (the arcade is where you played casual games before the home console became popular, you're probably too young to remember this too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Fighter First released in the arcade in 1987.

It's sad that we perpetuate myths, like consoles killed arcade games or there must be one dominant platform,

This is how it is in the console world. It was dog eat dog. Nintendo ate Atari and Sega, Sony tried to eat nintendo... The first company to release a decent tablet/console hybrid will eat the others (smart monies on Nintendo, they seem to understand the market).

The console market does not abide competition. Having three players is the largest it's ever been and right now, two of those three players will have trouble staying in the game.

As far as I know, neither Canon or Nikon have wiped each other off the map nor do they have plans to.

That's because you've got Pentax, Panasonic, Fijifilm, Olympus, Leica and many others competing in DLSR, Point and Shoot, Enthusiast and many other markets. Also Canon make more than just cameras. The only way this compares to consoles in when we ask "what happened to Kodak" and answer "they bet on film when the market went digital".

It's obvious you're young and haven't researched much about the console market, you might want to do that before making ill informed posts.