As ex-PlayStation boss suggests consoles are becoming "irrelevant," veteran analyst predicts they'll become "more open," but "Nintendo will be the absolute last people to do that"
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While one former PlayStation boss suggests we’renearing “a point where the console becomes irrelevant,“one analyst believes the focus for hardware going forward will be for it to become “more open,” even if one of the big three games companies might lag behind the rest in making that jump.
In a recentEurogamer interviewwith the former president and CEO ofSonyInteractive Entertainment America, Shawn Layden, it was suggested that this so-called irrelevance might not arrive in the next console generation, but the one after that. GamesRadar+ ran this idea of it not mattering what hardware or content a console has access to by Mat Piscatella, executive director of games at market research company Circana, who believes that “perhaps in an ideal world that would be the case.”
For the time being, this is all prediction, but Piscatella certainly knows his stuff when it comes to the games industry. With all of this thought to happen in two console generations to come, though, we still have a while to wait.
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