Team Ninja boss says that consoles are going to be here for a while
Mirroring a sentiment that I think most of us share, the leader of Team Ninja (Yosuke Hayashi) said that consoles will be a part of gaming for a long time:
“I don’t think consoles are going to disappear from gaming. You still have millions of people playing videogames with a controller on a box in front of the TV. Just look at Call of Duty, for example: it’s everywhere. There are millions of people playing it.
“I think people will continue to play games, and as long as the cost of development stays sustainable, and people continue to buy traditional games, then we’ll be here. If only one game sells everything, it will ruin the gaming and console industries completely.
“I think you can compare it to movies. People still go to the cinema after all this time. I don’t know how long cinemas have been around but it’s not like cinemas are completely gone and everyone is watching movies on their TV or smartphone. Yes, you have those new mediums, but the old guy is still there – and I think it’s going to be like that with consoles. I think they will be around for quite a while.”
That movie/cinema analogy is actually pretty good! There’s no doubt that smartphones/tablets/etc will slowly take a larger and larger piece of the market, but I really doubt that they’ll ever match up to the experience we’ve had available on consoles for years…
