A talk I gave at Casual Connect 2013 exploring the future scenario that devices like OUYA and GamePop promise.

1. Welcome To The
Microconsole Generation
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2. 2015:
Meet Angela
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3. Angela Loves To Play Games
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4. She Plays Them Everywhere
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5. Tries Many, Pays For A Few
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6. When
Angela
Finds A
Great
Game,
She’s
Hooked
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7. But Her Problem Is...
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8. Some Games Aren’t Comfortable to Play
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9. Sometimes She Wants To Play With Friends
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10. Sometimes She Wants A Different Kind Of Play
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11. But She Doesn’t Want One Of These
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12. Or To Have To Master This
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13. Or Buy These
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14. She Wants
Gaming That
Suits Her Life
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15. Not To Join A Cult
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16. Then She Hears About Microconsoles
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17. There Are Lots Of Options
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18. They All Run The Same Games
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19. They’re Inexpensive
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20. Just Like Her Other Devices
The Games Are Free to Play
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21. So She Buys One
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22. She And 100m Like Her
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23. The Games
Industry Is
Puzzled
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24. Why Would
People Buy
Weak Devices?
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25. Why Would
Controllers
Get Dumber?
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26. Why Would
Games
Devolve?
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27. It’s About Evolution
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28. One We’ve Seen Before
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29. Several Times
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30. It’s The
Story Of
How...
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31. The Future Is Compact
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32. The Future
Is Neat
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33. The Future Suits People
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34. The Future Is Shared
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35. The Future Is Flexibly Priced
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36. The Future Is Playful
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37. Lots Of People Like To Game
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38. How Many? This Many...
0" 50" 100" 150" 200" 250" 300"
iPads"Sold"
iPad"Minis"Sold"
iPhones"Sold"
iPod"Touch"
Facebook"Gamers"
Android"Tablets"(inc"Kindles)"
Xbox"360s"Sold"
PlayStaEon"3s"Sold"
Wiis"Sold"
How$Many$
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39. But Not This
So Much
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40. They Don’t Want This Experience
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41. They Prefer This
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42. So These Do Not Solve Their Problems
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43. These Might
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44. There Are Skeptics
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45. Often With
“Real Gamer”
Expectations
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46. Especially
The Fidelity
Fallacy
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47. Of Course There Are Issues
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48. It’s Still Being Figured Out
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49. In 2013, My Story Is Fiction
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50. Even
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51. It May Not Fit Our Mental Model
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52. But Angela
Won’t Care
About That
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53. She Just Loves To Play Games
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54. Welcome To The
Microconsole Generation
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