Tekken Producer Speaks To Unified Future, Wishes Sony, Microsoft And Nintendo Would Make A Single Console

I don't consider browser gaming or mobile gaming as competition to console gamers or what some call "true" or "real" gamers. I can't play what's considered AAA games in my browser or on my cellphone. My phone is for spurts of entertainment while I'm on the go, waiting in line, riding the bus etc. I play very few browser games and when I do the experience is again fleeting at most, like in between working on a school assignment or what not.

I'm pretty sure a unified console would be detrimental to the gaming industry as a whole without other competition coming into the picture (Ouya, Apple Console?). Considering the scope of each of these companies, I could imagine a too many chiefs not enough indians scenario and they could essentially price all the games and hardware at their leisure. The only real competition currently would be PC which some people have a hard time jumping into considering hardware constraints/costs etc.

Mobile and browser games are definitely competition to console gaming. There haven't been very many triple A games on mobile but I would be willing to say that games like Infinity Blade are triple A. It all deepens on what your definition of a triple A game is.

You also have to think about parents. Are they going to buy a $300 console for their child when they have a 2 year old IPod/Pad/Phone/Android device that they no longer use but functions perfectly as a gaming device for their kid, and the games are typically $.99.

Also, mobile device saturation far exceeds any console, so publishers want to put those triple A games on mobile devices are charge $5 and sell 10 million copies.

The big 3 would never unify. It isn't just because the prices would go up since there's less competition, but Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony all have their own ideas and interests that conflict with each other. It just would not be feasible.

But they could work together for the benefit of publishers, developers and gamers alike, providing tools for cross-platform interaction and for game develo... ok enough wishful thinking.

Although that sounds like the dream scenario for gamers, I think the best scenario would actually be a two-console market.

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