{"id":4921,"date":"2009-11-27T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-08-26T12:50:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T10:50:20","slug":"square-enix-consoles-to-go-the-way-of-the-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/4921-square-enix-consoles-to-go-the-way-of-the-dinosaurs","title":{"rendered":"Square Enix: \u201cConsoles to go the way of the dinosaurs\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Square Enix Chief Yoichi Wada has revealed to MCV in a recent interview that a major change will take place within the gaming industry in the next decade which could make way for major advances but which may also see the death of traditional media and the console.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn ten years\u2019 time a lot of what we call \u2018console games\u2019 won\u2019t exist,\u201d said Wada, who heads up one of the largest publishing companies in the gaming community.<\/p>\n<p>Wada also warned that \u201call the distributors and sales firms will suffer a big negative impact\u201d\u00a0 when media services are transferred from disk based offerings to digital \u2013 allowing users to access all content and games via the internet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomewhere around 2005 the console manufacturers\u2019 strategy shifted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past the platform was hardware, but it has switched to the network. A time will come when the hardware isn\u2019t even needed anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith that, any kind of terminal becomes a potential platform on which games can be played \u2013 that\u2019s exponential growth in the potential of gaming. The potential size of the market is enormous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Wada both Microsoft and Sony are already beginning to prepare for the shift with as yet unannounced offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square Enix Chief predicts console extinction in the next decade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}