Industry NewsPachter says this console generation is the lastJoystiq - March 25, 2009
Submitted by oznerol (1)
at 6:55AM PST on March 25, 2009
Micheal Pachter foresees a world without console wars, calling the current crop of hardware "the last generation of consoles." The ballsy claim was made during GamesBeat 2009, a conference going on in parallel to GDC, where the Wedbush Morgan analyst reportedly declared that the future belonged to a "standard delivery platform" instead.
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*when I say if a service like OnLive became popular, it would have to become popular enough to have established itself as the new form of distribution, thereby eliminating the success of console companies entirely. I don't see that happening. I see the console companies more agile than that with their internal developments.