14 DAY TRIAL // OK, this, you gotta hear. Ishaan from gaming site Flame War ADVANCE sat down with execs at Exigent, a Noida-based Indian outsourcing company that deals with video game art and spoke about India, China and the future of gaming. So, Exigent's Chief Creative Officer Paul Steed, talks about India's role in future gaming: "The future of gaming is really mobile games and PC games. There's more computers in the world, there's more cell phones in the world than there are consoles and that'll never change. India's interesting because the government's really supporting broadband users...," says one of two fragments I found posted on Kotaku.
As the atmosphere starts to heat up, Exigent's VP of Production, Jesse Rapczak jumps in to further provide the interviewer with details about why consoles are a dying breed, and that it's happening sooner than anyone thought:
"The real question is, what's going to happen to consoles when India and China become world powers in gaming? Because, the console market is strictly geared at U.S., Europe and Japan. I mean, there's not a sizeable console market in China and India. But, China and India together have majority of the world's population, almost...The numbers say that console gaming is going to go down. And PC, online and mobile gaming is on the rise, and all this will happen in India and China over the next five years. Come 2010, some people might not be playing game consoles. Doubtful, but..."
OK, sorry to burst your bubble Mr. Steed, but consoles dying out by 2010, seems awfully far fetched. They're still enjoying a good dose of popularity and just because they don't fancy them that much in India, doesn't mean that nobody else has a saying at this. Plus, it will take people more than three years just to discover the PS3's full potential. Heck, the PS2 still has it going on and it's been six years since its release. So, still think consoles are dying that fast?