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Originally Posted by Mivo
For casual gaming, maybe. For hardcore gaming, indeed no. That audience owns a Xbox 360 or a Playstation 3, and will get a Xbox One or PS4 later in the year. It's not only a matter of hardware performance, but also (and maybe especially) of gaming franchises.
But the casual market, that is: people who play games on their phones and tablets, or on Facebook, is potentially much bigger than the traditional PC/console video games market (and substantially cheaper to break into).
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I think the hard core gaming community is on the decline. Or at least waning to the core. It used to be you bought a console to play mainstream games and hard core gaming was done on a gaming computer. The PS3/4 and Xbox consoles are gaming PCs for the living room. That makes them very expensive for casual gamers. These set top entertainment consoles play the casual games we grew up with, stream television, and run light weight apps. A lot of people are interested.
Until recently, these entertainment consoles were kind of expensive and pretty limited, but android changed things. The idea of using a headless, batteryless Nexus or Fire as a Family Console is attractive.
Movies, music, games, weather, news, and email in the living room (or kitchen or bedroom) for $200 might be a winning ticket. Add a year of prime and a controller to the package and there will be one under every tree this Christmas.