Squeenix CEO announces, "No more hardware!"

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/console/squareenixesonyandmsarepreparedfordeathofconsoles.shtmlWhile looking around online, I found this little bit of news on Square Enix.
Apparently, the CEO, Yoichi Wada, says that in 10 years, there will no longer be hardware. Everything will be server based, and we won't need hardware to download or play games.

"In the past the platform was hardware, but it has switched to the network... A time will come when the hardware isn't even needed anymore,"

So he's saying that we'll be playing games, without a console, controller, or even VR room (that would be hardware), no brain implants (also hardware), and the data won't even be on hardware.Thoughts?

wth? how we ment 2 play them then :o

I doubt it to be honest.
Hardware won't really die that easily.
And isn't a server a hardware...?

It won't happen.

There is a Trojan on the web page you linked to JS:ScriptDC-inf [Trj]

I don't think there's a trojan, my anti-virus didn't say anything when I went there.

ggrroohh · #3And isn't a server a hardware...?

Exactly.

Replying to #6

My Avast did, Avast rarely produces false positives but I guess it is possible.

Replying to #7

Avast? I have avast too, but mine didn't react.
My bad if there is, though. I'll keep an eye on my computer and see if it does anything.

1prinnydood · #7My Avast did, Avast rarely produces false positives but I guess it is possible.

nope, my avast went off too.

1prinnydood · #5There is a Trojan on the web page you linked to JS:ScriptDC-inf [Trj]

My Avast found it too...

Ah, well damn, sorry then. Wouldn't have linked it if I had known.Still an interesting piece of news, though, eh?

its a load of rubbish, software can't run on thin air. Even if the games are run on a remote server a la onlive, you'd still need a client device to communicate with the server and translate the data into sound/video and send controller inputs to the server.

Yup. Yet Enix's CEO says that within 10 years, we'll be able to do this.I had lost hope for Enix after FFXII, and was holding out to extricate them from my game case until after Kingdom Hearts 3, but this.....this is just beyond idiotic.
If this is the future of games, I'm gonna play games with my muscles and bones before I ever touch a console.

I can't wait to play Final Fantasy XV by staring at the wall