In a perfect world everything would play anything, but it will never happen, ever.
If you was to build a PC as powerful as a PS4 it would cost you more money, as consoles are subsidised a fair bit by the various companies involved.
Not only that but consoles play games a lot better than PCs, now hold up Mr rage with your mouse and keyboard and let me explain...
Doom works perfectly on the PS4. To do this id needs to get the game working perfectly on a PS4.
Doom looks and plays better on the PC. Some PCs. And not even the most powerful ones. Dual graphics cards seem to make it crash. It doesn't like certain things. For id to make Doom play perfectly on the PC - they can't. There's millions of variables. They can only make it play the best they can.
If you're a tech savvy guy, you can probably make it run like a dream. But for your average Joe, Doom simply doesn't run well for you and that's that.
Thus there will always be a huge market for consoles. And multiple consoles.
DVDs and Blu-Rays are not games. Games are fine tuned to get the most out of the hardware. Not only that but lets not forget that we nearly DID have 2 different HD movie formats. If HD-DVDs lived then you could very well have had 2 movie playing devices right now. It's only because the market (and big bags of money to make certain studios exclusive - aka Disney) decided against it.
The only way you'll get one console is if everyone buys that one console. But as strong exclusives exist (owned by the console makers) that will never happen. Ever. If there was no exclusives brand loyalty would probably keep it trucking for a while as well.
As long as their is money to be made, companies will choose money over convenience for the consumer. And I don't want to be in a world where the new game I brought may or may not play that great on my console/PC I just spent loads of money on. I just want it to work.
If you was to build a PC as powerful as a PS4 it would cost you more money, as consoles are subsidised a fair bit by the various companies involved.
Not only that but consoles play games a lot better than PCs, now hold up Mr rage with your mouse and keyboard and let me explain...
Doom works perfectly on the PS4. To do this id needs to get the game working perfectly on a PS4.
Doom looks and plays better on the PC. Some PCs. And not even the most powerful ones. Dual graphics cards seem to make it crash. It doesn't like certain things. For id to make Doom play perfectly on the PC - they can't. There's millions of variables. They can only make it play the best they can.
If you're a tech savvy guy, you can probably make it run like a dream. But for your average Joe, Doom simply doesn't run well for you and that's that.
Thus there will always be a huge market for consoles. And multiple consoles.
DVDs and Blu-Rays are not games. Games are fine tuned to get the most out of the hardware. Not only that but lets not forget that we nearly DID have 2 different HD movie formats. If HD-DVDs lived then you could very well have had 2 movie playing devices right now. It's only because the market (and big bags of money to make certain studios exclusive - aka Disney) decided against it.
The only way you'll get one console is if everyone buys that one console. But as strong exclusives exist (owned by the console makers) that will never happen. Ever. If there was no exclusives brand loyalty would probably keep it trucking for a while as well.
As long as their is money to be made, companies will choose money over convenience for the consumer. And I don't want to be in a world where the new game I brought may or may not play that great on my console/PC I just spent loads of money on. I just want it to work.