Do you know who the big six at E3 are? Konami, Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, and Sony are holding poress conferences with Nintendo choosing it's alternative Nintendo Direct series.
While Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have home consoles of their own, Konami, EA, and Ubisoft don't. However, they could create home consoles if they wanted to. Would anyone have ever thought in 1996 that Microsoft would ever create a home console of their own despite having PC software. Each company has it's own advantages and such.
Konami is known for it's Japanese style and games such as Castlevania, Contra, Metal Gear, Dance Dance Revolution, TMNT, and Pro Evolution Soccer. What Konami also has is it's physical fitness charm to it. They could create a Japanese Oriental decorated home console that could put Nintendo's Wii to shame with state of art motion sensing controls that have split remote style controllers that can work like traditional gamepads but also combine fitness abilities so you can actually act out the gameplay. Konami consoles could make you feel like you were actually in the game to say as advanced motion sensing technology makes you feel physically like the character without the actual danger and pain in real life. Konami is known for it's dedication to fitness so I suggest Konami could become more successful by creating it's own unique console that has Oriental charm and physical fitness to it while still making room for hardcore gaming in which Konami console versions could have controls that cater to physical fitness and respond to body movement's like Microsoft's new 1080p Kinect. I would call it Konami Kenko
Electronic Arts is legendary and was founded by 3DO creator Trip Hawkins(legend in video game industry). EA is known for great game series such as Need For Speed, SimCity, The Sims, Mass Effect, Battlefield, etc. What could EA do with it's potential? It has a content delivery service known as Origin which is currently for PC, Mac, Android, iOS platforms. Could Origin be the name of EA's own console? Origin has some problems but I bet they can be fixed to be console worthy. Origin distributes EA only games. EA has been very fond of Wii U and programs it's games differently for Wii U than PS3, Xbox 360, and PC for examples. The Wii U Gamepad seems to have been taken more advantage of with EA Wii U games. The kind of controller EA could use is a tablet controller like Wii U Gamepad and Wikipad. It could have the same motion sensing abilities as Wii U Gamepad and Dualshock 4. An Electronic Arts console would be called EA Origin. It would be a separate Origin from it's PC version. Origin could also have an online service like Xbox Live. It's controller could be based off of a modified PS Vita, Xbox 360(shape only) style controller with a touchscreen.
Ubisoft has made great games such as Assassin's Creed, Rayman series, Driver: San Francisco, Rabbids, Tom Clancy series, and it's newest release Watch Dogs. Ubisoft has Uplay which is digital distribution of it's games, which could be used for console development. Ubisoft has also taken liking to Wii U for it's gamepad. Could Ubisoft also make a Wii U Gamepad style controller? Ubisoft has high potential for making it as a console developer like Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft. Ubisoft even has it's own motion sensing camera called Ubisoft Motion Tracking Camera which could be as awesome as Kinect 2.0. Ubisoft's console should be called Ubisoft Uplay.
Issues faced here include console exclusive games, how to get started, hardware, and relationship with other consoles. Origin and Uplay are currently for multiple platforms wheres Konami has no program like these. Valve has Steam which is like PC. I know Konami has no digital distribution platform and could easily start out by learning from Sony and Microsoft's startdom. EA and ubisoft however will have to compromise on making some of their games exclusive and making the transition from digital download platform for numerous platforms to home consoles. Examples would be EA and Ubisoft creating separate programs that use the same name but have different programs such as Origin having programs for content delivery for PC, Mac to temporarily run concurrent with EA Origin console before transitioning to being exclusive for EA console while Uplay will still be running concurrent with having other consoles for games made before Ubisoft Uplay becomes its own console. Plus, simulation games best run on PC and Mac systems should still be for the PC and Mac systems such as The Sims and SimCity series being notable exceptions to EA exclusives.
These aren't limited here as Valve, Apple, and Google have potential to be prime contenders. Of course, EA could make Origin more PC like but should make it an affordable console. Should Konami, Electronic Arts, and Ubisoft make consoles of their own, the games they publish should be exclusive to their respective consoles. Apple and Google would most likely be All in One entertainment consoles like Xbox One while Valve Steambox would be PC/digital download using Steam.
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