Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
As I've been contemplating the Everything Wars and content delivery, something struck me about game machines – Wii, X-Box, even DS or PSP.
It seems fairly obvious that the game machines are changing to multi-media machines, as we've mentioned before – Netflix on X-box, e-books on DS, etc. Yet it's still easy to talk about the future of game consoles, handheld games, etc.
I'm starting to think that's the wrong idea.
Imagine you're someone that produces media – or maybe you already do Perhaps you make video games, or manga, or fantasy novels. You have a good thing going, and of course you have competitors, but you can deal with them. You can do more, faster, better . . . except there's one competitor that's getting better all the time and has a LOT more material than you could ever produce.
The backlog of games, anime, comics, media etc. that's out there now. That's a growing competition for everyone working in media right now.
We've often spoken on this blog about the need to be open to moving for your career, and that's something that's important. However, there's another side to that coin – there could be "geek career" places right in your vicinity that you don't know about yet.