Consoles will be around until the tech is sufficiently advanced as to negate their usefulness. There will come a day when a phone does everything a modern high end PC can. Bluetooth to a TV and play whatever you want.

Graphic fidelity is almost to a point where there isn't much more needed in the way of processing power. Another decade. Maybe 2. Consoles will still exist for decades yet. But they're going to become increasingly unnecessary.

Steam is futureproof. But nothing else.

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I disagree. Your phone can happily do that today as long as you're willing to play old games. This will always be the case, even when phones are able to play things today are now considered AAA, Desktop computers will be leaps ahead in what they can do.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think it's a bit shortsighted to assume gaming will have no use for significantly more powerful hardware in the future. even if not for graphics or VR, it could be greater use of AI, or something else we could never foresee.

[–] nickhammes@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dedicated hardware still has benefits, having your phone notifications separate from gaming, if your phone breaks having your console break would suck, and imo a touchscreen will never surpass physical buttons on controllers so you'd still want those.

I personally hope the future looks more like a steam deck than a gaming phone.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

In terms of touch screen control. The phone will just be the processing unit. It will wirelessly Stream the video to your tv while accepting controllers and other ik devices via bluetooth. Maybe with a switch like cradle. And I can't play a lot of games with a controller.. but my kids play fine with one.. also on the touch screen. It's what you are used to I guess.