EA Founder Discusses Future Of Consoles: "The Cloud Is Everything"

With the Switch 2 set to usher the next big console launch this June, EA founder Trip Hawkins has commented on the future of gaming consoles.In a blog post, Hawkins said he predicts cloud-enabled technologies to dominate going forward, predicting that the days of a "conventional" console selling 150 million units are over."As for the next generation of consoles, we're now in a glide plane where the cloud is everything and it will be far more convenient to have rack-mounted GPUs in data centers than to try to convince the public to buy more consoles, at higher prices, than they have in the past," he said. "We will never see another conventional console sell 150 million units, like the PlayStation 2 did."Continue Reading at GameSpot

May 1, 2025 - 14:21

EA Founder Discusses Future Of Consoles: "The Cloud Is Everything"

With the Switch 2 set to usher the next big console launch this June, EA founder Trip Hawkins has commented on the future of gaming consoles.

In a blog post, Hawkins said he predicts cloud-enabled technologies to dominate going forward, predicting that the days of a "conventional" console selling 150 million units are over.

"As for the next generation of consoles, we're now in a glide plane where the cloud is everything and it will be far more convenient to have rack-mounted GPUs in data centers than to try to convince the public to buy more consoles, at higher prices, than they have in the past," he said. "We will never see another conventional console sell 150 million units, like the PlayStation 2 did."Continue Reading at GameSpot