Is it realistic to say, in another 50 years, home consoles are here to stay?

[delete12345]

It's been almost 50 years since we are introduced to the concept of home consoles or home entertainment system on the floor, back in 1970.

50 years gone by, and by 2020's standards, home consoles are the mainstream devices for playing non-PC video games.

Is it realistic to say, 50 years into the future, in 2070, we still using home consoles?

 

[Dolce]

It's not smart to make any consumer driven predictions 50 years in the future.

Consoles didn't even exist 50 years ago.

 

[Oneiros]

I highly doubt it. Streaming is the future.

 

[delete12345]

It's not smart to make any consumer driven predictions 50 years in the future.

Consoles didn't even exist 50 years ago.

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Ok, then I guess it's not realistic.

Maybe 1 year, it's realistic.
3 years, probably.
10 years, maybe not.

 

[tapedeck]

I'd say very doubtful, by then we'll be answering to our cockroach overlords.

 

[Deleted member 17210]

Games will likely just be streamed to TVs with Netflix-like services long before that making current consoles irrelevant.

 

[An Army of Bees]

I dunno if there's gonna be room for gaming in the wasteland.

 

[Fabtacular]

I don't know if it's safe to say humanity is going to be around 50 years from now.

 

[MinerArcaniner]

This was the peak of gaming back in 1971...November of '71, so it wouldn't have even existed 50 years ago.

I'm not jumping to any conclusions about 2071 in light of that.

 

[delete12345]

It might be nostalgic to say, "Back in my grandparent's age, I had a lot of fun playing games on the TV."

 

[RedHeat]

Tech will be almost unrecognizable in 30 years, let alone 50.

 

[cvbas]

It's not realistic to make any assumptions about consumer electronics 50 years from now.

15 years from now? Sure, consoles will still be around.

50? Impossible to know.

 

[Qassim]

games will be streamed directly into our brains, bypassing our meat peripherals

 

[Doomguy Fieri]

More likely that screens have such fast processing power that dedicated gaming hardware isn't relevant.

 

[Martinski]

Home consoles and computers aren't even 50 years old yet.

 

[Good4Squat]

That is a bit too far out I think to say.

 

[Transistor]

It's not smart to make any consumer driven predictions 50 years in the future.

Consoles didn't even exist 50 years ago.

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Indeed

 

[jon bones]

50 years? We'll be plugging our brains into VR scapes by then

 

[Unknownlight]

Home consoles or dedicated devices? I think the latter are more likely the continue to exist than the former. For example, VR is a dedicated device (although it probably won't just be used for gaming).

 

[Duxxy3]

No idea. Consoles are supposed to be dead already. PC's are supposed to be dead. Streaming is supposed to have taken over. Who the hell knows.

 

[Derachi]

We would have considered a 2021-era modern smartphone the realm of science fiction 20 years ago. It's almost impossible to predict.

I think one thing is for sure: I'll still be playing games, wherever they are.

 

[delete12345]

Home consoles and computers aren't even 50 years old yet.

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Technically, we have Fortran computers computing for 64 years, since 1957 when Fortran was introduced.

 

[Look over there]

50 years is far enough into the future than one can even skip past external AR/VR devices and go straight to.... I dunno, embedding chips in our head? Multiple decades into the future in this era is sci-fi fun time.

 

[Ovvv]

World will be over by then.

 

[Pyro]

Life as we know it might not be here to stay in another 50 years my guy.

 

[DaleCooper]

2070 you say? All I know is that we will be 7 years away from a functioning version of Cyberpunk at that time...

 

[Martinski]

Technically, we have Fortran computers computing for 64 years, since 1957 when Fortran was introduced.

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Yeah but i mean't home computing not the computers that were the size of a house.

 

[WestEgg]

Tech will be almost unrecognizable in 30 years, let alone 50.

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Yeah, this is what I'm thinking. I couldn't have imagined we would all be carrying around multifunctional, globally connected super computers with in our pockets when I was growing up in the 90s. Who knows what kind of crazy stuff is on the horizon.

 

[delete12345]

Yeah but i mean't home computing not the computers that were the size of a house.

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If you put it that way, you're correct on that.

 

[SoH]

People still regularly listen to radio. Video games on a TV are not going anywhere anytime soon.

Will they still be the major driver of a billion (trillion) dollar industry in 50 years? Maybe? Probably not? Who can say.

 

[Vincent Grayson]

I suspect we'll see new generations/updates on consoles for a good while still. But 50 years? I have no clue what life will look like in 50 years, much less whether we play games the same ways.

 

[Lashley]

In 50 years? I doubt it

 

[thepiratejay]

I'll be gaming exclusively in my Tesla Model XXX by then.

 

[WhtR88t]

If technology keep advancing as fast is it has, who knows what a "home console" even looks like. We might have near perfect VR by then (which at that point, what even is a "home console"?)… or not even have "homes" to have consoles inside of in the traditional sense because of things like climate change.

We might be on space ships on our way to Mars… a lot can happen in 50 years.

 

[Rosebud]

No, but we'll be saying "Kids these days will never know the feeling of getting a new console, humanity is lost, humpf"

 

[Hermii]

No tech prediction 50 years ahead in time is realistic.

 

[DNAbro]

Mario is 35

Think about what you are asking about tech in the future.

 

[Josh5890]

The only thing I am sure will be the case in 50 years is that Nintendo will be doomed.

 

[SilentEagle]

I think we'll see PS6 and next Xbox too but probably there will be no PS7 and equal Xbox version.

 

[Glimpse_Dog]

In 50 years I doubt well even be using silicon. Tech will get exponentially weird in 30 years.

 

[Maple]

25 years from now? Probably.

50 years from now? Probably not.

 

[MercuryLS]

Will humanity make it in 50 years? I think gaming will be the last thing on our minds at that point.

 

[WestEgg]

No, but we'll be saying "Kids these days will never know the feeling of getting a new console, humanity is lost, humpf"

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"Call me a old fashioned, but we used to press buttons to make Mario jump, instead of just thinking about it really hard, and we liked it! And don't even get me started on before smell-o-vision was invented!"

 

[Glimpse_Dog]

2070 you say? All I know is that we will be 7 years away from a functioning version of Cyberpunk at that time...

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That's a good year to aim to live to - 2077, would be happy with that.

 

[Sectorseven]

We'll probably have neural induction by then.

 

[Iwao]

I'm quite sure that you'll still be able to buy consumer electronics for gaming in 50 years that let you play locally on your own terms rather than the only option being streaming data from a server. It might not be the most popular option though.

 

[Cats]

I have my doubts that we'll have the ability to R&D, mine, refine, ship, and then create the circuits on a useful scale to keep expanding technology needed for mass consumer devices in 50 years. I think we'll be battling an unprecedented refugee crisis, hunger crisis, extreme homelessness, crime rates exploding, wealth inequality beyond sustainability, ect. Stuff will still exist but growth into the future is going to stall hard.

That's my prediction anyways.

 

[KrillinLikeAVillan]

I hope not, by 2071 we better have full on cyberpunk cyberbrains or i (my ghost) will riot.

 

[joeblow]

Plot twist: in 50 years, advanced A.I. driven monstrosities will be playing humans for entertainment.

 

[MirageDwarf]

Are you sure there is no typo in title? Did you really mean "in another 50 years" instead of "in another 5 years"?

Trying to predict this is almost impossible. If world is in post-apocalyptit mode in 50 years, physical and offline console may survive.