SHARING WILL DEFINE THE NEW CONSOLE GENERATION:
Twitter didn’t exist when the last console generation began. Facebook only came online a few months before the Xbox 360 released. MySpace rose up and fell behind even as the 7th-gen boxes found their sweet spots.
Now, social integration is the central, defining feature for the 8th generation consoles.
The momentum can’t be undersold. This is an industry that immediately adopted spectator mode as a standard once League of Legends demonstrated its popularity. Video games are a service industry. At its best and most successful, they identify what players want and provide it.
Moreover, Internet-savvy people in general and the gaming community in particular have become a group of content providers. Whether it’s a 10-second Vine, a 140 character thought, or a 20-minute YouTube video, people are finding their voices. To say nothing of the thousands of modders happily creating in-game content.
