Television is gradually moving to the gaming consoles

Today we are witnessing a very interesting transition period between the previous and the new generation of game consoles. But it's not just games that are limited in their use in everyday life.

There is a feeling that modern gaming consoles are not even gaming devices, but something completely different. Just look: the ability to watch cable TV using Xbox One or the ability to broadcast game podcasts on the PlayStation 4. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

It should not be forgotten that many applications that regularly go out for consoles do not even affect video games as such. Recall at least applications for ordering pizza directly from your Xbox 360 console or the ability to see the results of sports matches and championships in a special application for Xbox One that Microsoft developed, while paying $ 500 million to the NHL for the exclusive right to provide this information to its users.

PlayStation 4 from the last forces tries to remain a narrow device for playing video games, but this popular console does not always get to stick to the chosen policy. A lot of applications allow you to look at Sony's pre-set Internet TV or rent video. However, PlayStation 3 also sinned this in its time.

Employees of the agency Parks Associates in the course of their research found that most of the game consoles in North America are used to watch your favorite TV series. The Russian person and in a head does not come to go to the store and buy a disc with a television series or rent it for money in the relevant services. Most often in Russia, TV shows are downloaded from torrent trackers, since amateur voiceovers are popular in our country, which are sometimes even better than licensed dubbing, and serials are released on torrents much earlier than they are shown on television.

According to the research results, 46% of Americans prefer to watch movies and TV series with the help of their game consoles. Moreover, for 28% of Americans, their gaming console is the only source of media content in the house, because they simply do not watch ordinary TV. On the second place on popularity there were clever TVs with the integrated applications for viewing of films and serials straight from the Network. A little lower in this hierarchy were television set-top boxes like Apple TV and Roku.

For a snack, let's take a look at the remarkable video clip from the May Xbox One presentation, in which the word "television" occurs more often than you might think.

And how do you think, our dear readers, game consoles and smart TVs will eventually supersede traditional television? Or is it important for you to have the opportunity to turn on your favorite TV channel at any time, regardless of whether the Internet is available at this moment or not?

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